Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which...

including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values...

Cultural materialism is an anthropological research orientation first introduced by Marvin Harris in his 1968 book The Rise of Anthropological Theory,...

from cultural anthropology. In the United States, social anthropology is commonly subsumed within cultural anthropology or sociocultural anthropology. The...

In cultural anthropology, reciprocity refers to the non-market exchange of goods or labour ranging from direct barter (immediate exchange) to forms of...

George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer: 20th century social and cultural anthropology has promised its still largely Western readership enlightenment...

A cultural universal (also called an anthropological universal or human universal) is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all...

culture"), or a counterculture. Within cultural anthropology, the ideology and analytical stance of cultural relativism hold that cultures cannot easily...

most highly developed areas of anthropology and applied anthropology, and is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that examines the ways in which...

they were during the development of anthropology. For a presentation of modern social and cultural anthropology as they have developed in Britain, France...

anthropology is a term used to refer to social anthropology and cultural anthropology together. It is one of the four main branches of anthropology....

Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and...

Ecological anthropology is a sub-field of anthropology and is defined as the "study of cultural adaptations to environments". The sub-field is also defined...

Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology and biological anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge...

In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische...

was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory. He was...

cultural systems through the provision of data, initiation of direct action, and/or the formulation of policy". In other words, applied anthropology is...

In cultural anthropology and sociology, redistribution refers to a system of economic exchange involving the centralized collection of goods from members...

Political anthropology is the comparative study of politics in a broad range of historical, social, and cultural settings. Political anthropology has its...

The Society for Cultural Anthropology (or SCA) is a professional organization for cultural anthropologists based in the United States. It was established...

Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of...

techno-anthropology, digital ethnography, cyberanthropology, and virtual anthropology. Most anthropologists who use the phrase "digital anthropology" are...

sources of anthropological knowledge. These journals publish articles in the four fields of anthropology: archaeology, biological, cultural, and linguistic...

Cultural Anthropology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Anthropological Association on behalf of the Society for...

In anthropology and geography, a cultural area, cultural region, cultural sphere, or culture area refers to a geography with one relatively homogeneous...

Linguistic anthropology explores how language shapes communication, forms social identity and group membership, organizes large-scale cultural beliefs and...

Psychological anthropology is an interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. This subfield...

Economic anthropology is a field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It is an amalgamation...

Cyborg anthropology is a discipline that studies the interaction between humanity and technology from an anthropological perspective. The discipline offers...

and cultural landscapes. Biological anthropology – concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings Linguistic anthropology – interdisciplinary...