- Industry: Education
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Way of organizing production-a set of social relations through which labor is deployed to wrest energy from nature by means of tools, skills, and knowledge.
Industry:Anthropology
Interested in the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture.
Industry:Anthropology
Consisting of each society's cultural base-its core beliefs and principles. IPR is claimed as a group right-a cultural right, allowing indigenous groups to control who may know and use their collective knowledge and its applications.
Industry:Anthropology
Nonindustrial systems of plant cultivation characterized by continuous and intensive use of land and labor.
Industry:Anthropology
Originally formulated by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace; the process by which nature selects the forms most fit to survive and reproduce in a given environment, such as the tropics.
Industry:Anthropology
Beliefs, customs, and specialists concerned with ensuring health and preventing and curing illness; a cultural universal.
Industry:Anthropology
A legal code, including trial and enforcement; characteristic of state-organized societies.
Industry:Anthropology
