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 past human species. 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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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