Cultural Anthropology Anthropology Social Sciences

Cultural Anthropology Anthropology Social Sciences

Cultural Anthropology

To anthropologists, culture is the complex of learned, non-genetic behavior shared by the members of a society. Cultural anthropologists document the cultures of specific societies, and/or compare different societies in order to derive general principles of cultural evolution and human adaptation. It is the emphasis on cross-cultural comparison that helps distinguish cultural anthropology from many other Western social sciences.

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- Research in architecture on the phenomenology of space of O. F. Bollnow. [in English, French and German].
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- Resources for indigenous cultures around the world provided by NativeWeb.
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- A collection of articles that examine issues of power, exploitation and resistance from an anthropological perspective.
- Blog features articles on religion and spirituality and offers links to related resources.
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