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Culture Area
Culture AreaBIBLIOGRAPHYCulture areas are geographical territories in which characteristic culture patterns are recognizable through repeated associations of specific traits and, usually, through one or more modes of subsistence that are related to the particular environment. As one formulation... Read more |
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Cultural relativism
Cultural Relativism BIBLIOGRAPHY More than a century of ethnographic research profoundly supports the theory of cultural relativity, the theory that culture shapes beliefs, provides concepts, organizes value systems, and informs and orients human behavior. Anthropologists find it obvious that... Read more |
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cultural evolution
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Beaker culture
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Biocultural Evolution
Evolution, Biocultural From its beginnings in the eighteenth century, evolution—the idea that organisms are descended through a gradual development, ruled by natural law, from original, simple, primitive forms—was intermingled with thoughts of culture. In fact, it is difficult to... Read more |
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Salonika
SALONIKA A principal city in the Ottoman Empire that has belonged to Greece since 1912. Located at the head of the Gulf of Salonika, Salonika (also known as Salonica or Thessalonika) was captured by the Ottoman sultan Murad I in the late fourteenth century. The city flourished as a trade... Read more |
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culture
culture in anthropology, the integrated system of socially acquired values, beliefs, and rules of conduct which delimit the range of accepted behaviors in any given society. Cultural differences distinguish societies from one another. Archaeology , a branch of the broader field of anthropology,... Read more |
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Indian Education
EDUCATION, INDIAN EDUCATION, INDIAN. For generations, Native Americans educated their children through ceremony, story telling, and observation, teaching them about their cultural heritage and a spiritual relationship with the earth and all beings. Then came the suyapo (the Yakama word for "white... Read more |
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cultural pluralism
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Missions (Religion)
MISSIONS, FOREIGN MISSIONS, FOREIGN, were the primary means by which American Christians spread their religion and worldview across cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In sending missionaries, denominations and parachurch organizations sought at various times to convert people to... Read more |
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Misha's musical musings
...many things flow through me," said Alperin...s home in the Galilee shortly after landing...in, and all the cultures I've encountered...vibes and energies through the music he composes...for example, his confluence with the Huun ... |