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Cultural Anthropology:
Some Key Terms

Here is a brief list of some key terms in cultural anthropology. Be sure to check out the more extensive list under the last menu choice below.

Some Key Terms:

The concept of culture

Participant-observation

Ethnography

Fieldwork

Ethnocentrism

Cultural Relativism

Kinship and descent

The Emic perspective

The Etic perspective

Cultural evolution

Further terms