Cultural anthropology is also called socio-cultural anthropology or social anthropology ( especially in the United Kingdom ).

Cultural anthropology in the United States was influenced greatly by the ready availability of Native American societies as ethnographic subjects.

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities.

Cultural ( or social ) anthropology has traditionally looked at community through the lens of ethnographic fieldwork and ethnography continues to be an important methodology for study of modern communities.

* Cultural materialism ( anthropology )

Category: Cultural anthropology

Category: Cultural anthropology

Category: Cultural anthropology

Category: Cultural anthropology

Category: Cultural anthropology

Category: Cultural anthropology

Category: Cultural anthropology

* Cultural materialism ( anthropology )

Category: Cultural anthropology

Category: Cultural anthropology

Category: Cultural anthropology

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* Cultural anthropology

Category: Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology and social anthropology were developed around ethnographic research and their canonical texts which are mostly ethnographies: e. g. Argonauts of the Western Pacific ( 1922 ) by Bronisław Malinowski, Ethnologische Excursion in Johore ( 1875 ) by Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Coming of Age in Samoa ( 1928 ) by Margaret Mead, The Nuer ( 1940 ) by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Naven ( 1936, 1958 ) by Gregory Bateson or " The Lele of the Kasai " ( 1963 ) by Mary Douglas.

Pierre Bourdieu's essay " The Field of Cultural Production " depicts the publishing industry as a " space of literary or artistic position-takings ," also called the " field of struggles ," which is defined by the tension and movement inherent among the various positions in the field.

Cultural differences should therefore be understood as “ clinal ”, " increasing gradually as the distance separating groups also increases ".

David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger Associates and an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University ( who also served as a senior US Commerce Department official in the Clinton Administration ), wrote about cultural imperialism in his provocatively titled In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?

Cultural perceptions also impact on knowledge of the clitoris.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

Cultural reasons were also a factor in countries like China and Japan, where silents co-existed successfully with sound well into the 1930s, indeed producing what would be some of the most revered classics in those countries, like Wu Yonggang's The Goddess ( China, 1934 ) and Yasujirō Ozu's I Was Born, But ... ( Japan, 1932 ).

Cultural factors are also relevant, as local populations tend to be homogeneous.

From 2007, Taipei's Department of Cultural Affairs also began permitting graffiti on fences around major public construction sites.

There was also considerable anxiety about the volatile situation in Indonesia, in which saw Sukarno was replaced by General Suharto, while the Chinese Communist Party launched the cataclysmic Cultural Revolution.

He also opened a bookstore under the control of his new Cultural Book Society, whose purpose was to propagate revolutionary literature throughout Hunan.

Cultural influences left from Spanish colonization of the South and Southwest remain not only in the names of places but also in some ingredients in cooking, provided they grow in these regions ; these influences are strongly reinforced today by their proximity to northern Mexican states like Sonora, Baja California, and Chihuahua.

North Korea also belongs to the Food and Agriculture Organization ; the International Civil Aviation Organization ; the International Postal Union ; the UN Conference on Trade and Development ; the ITU ; the UN Development Programme ; the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ; the World Health Organization ; the World Intellectual Property Organization ; the World Meteorological Organization ; the International Maritime Organization ; the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Non-Aligned Movement.

* Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, also Doctors ' Day and Cultural Renaissance Day.

Cultural considerations also motivated the creation of palimpsests.

Cultural terms may also have a limited reach.

Cultural barriers can also keep a person from telling someone they are in pain.

It may also be described as relativist, basically a kind of Cultural relativism, which sees different cultural groups as having different conceptual schemes that are not necessarily compatible or commensurable, nor more or less in accord with the external reality.

The Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity ( UNESCO, 2001 ) further elaborates the concept by stating that "... cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature ”; it becomes “ one of the roots of development understood not simply in terms of economic growth, but also as a means to achieve a more satisfactory intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual existence ".

Cultural universals such as emotion and the relative resilience of psychological adaptation to accidental biological changes ( for instance the David Reimer case of gender reassignment following an accident ) also support basic biological mechanisms in the mind.

Although Mao himself officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, the power struggles and political instability between 1969 and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976 are now also widely regarded as part of the Revolution.

This is explained by author Tim P. Vos in his abstract “ A Cultural Explanation of Early Broadcast ” where he determines Targeted group / non-targeted group representations and also the cultural specificity employed in the television network entity.

Carroll also mentions a theory under the name of " Gender Schema Theory: Our Cultural Maps " which was first proposed by Sandra Bem.