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Characteristic of a system with socioeconomic strata, sharp social divisions based on unequal access to wealth and power; see stratum.
Industry:Anthropology
A reduction in absolute poverty and a fairer (more even) distribution of wealth.
Industry:Anthropology
Cultural experiences, beliefs, learned behavior patterns, and values shared by citizens of the same nation.
Industry:Anthropology
Nonindustrial system of plant cultivation in which plots lie fallow for varying lengths of time.
Industry:Anthropology
All a person's material assets, including income, land, and other types of property; the basis of economic status.
Industry:Anthropology
Intense community spirit, a feeling of great social solidarity, equality, and togetherness; characteristic of people experiencing liminality together.
Industry:Anthropology
Devaluing (looking down on) a group because of its assumed behavior, values, capabilities, attitudes, or other attributes.
Industry:Anthropology
Systems of communication among nonhuman primates, composed of a limited number of sounds that vary in intensity and duration. Tied to environmental stimuli. Cultural transmission-A basic feature of language; transmission through learning.
Industry:Anthropology
Kinship terminology with only two terms for the parental generation, one designating M, MZ, and FZ and the other designating F, FB, and MB.
Industry:Anthropology
As used by Antonio Gramsci, a stratified social order in which subordinates comply with domination by internalizing its values and accepting its "naturalness. "
Industry:Anthropology
