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• Morality
  ...es of social conformity significantly shape moral decisions, but deny that cultural norms and customs define moral behavior. ...[Moral Zeitgeist]] helps describe how morality evolves from biological and cultural origins and evolves with [[time]] within a [[culture]].
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• 2012-08-17-Conversations with Monjoronson 57
  ...old certain beliefs and assumptions collectively. Do you believe that our cultural differences and our nationalistic differences and the differences in our ma ...es “The People,” but as you said that, it suddenly flipped me around to my anthropology, and you are correct. It’s obviously where all this is coming from. The
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• Race
  ...a product of inherited (i.e. genetic) traits or environmental, social and cultural factors. ...GE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage 'The European': Allegories of Racial Purity]'' Anthropology Today, Vol. 7, No. 5 (Oct., 1991), pp. 7-9 doi:10.2307/3032780 Bindon, Jim.
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• Emotion
  ...ex emotions. In one model, the complex emotions could arise from [[culture|cultural]] conditioning or association combined with the basic emotions. Alternative ...alyses and cross-cultural comparisons of a range of human activities; some anthropology studies examine the role of emotions in human activities. In the field of [
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• Civilization
  ...l of social complexity and organization, and by their diverse economic and cultural activities. ...o refer to society as a whole. To nineteenth-century [[England|English]] [[anthropology|anthropologist]] [[Edward Burnett Tylor]], for example, civilization was "t
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• Humanities
  ...umanities are [[anthropology]], [[area studies]], [[communications]] and [[cultural studies]], although these are often regarded as social sciences. Scholars w ...s of what constitutes dance are dependent on [[Society|social]], [[Culture|cultural]], [[aesthetic]] [[artistic]] and [[moral]] constraints and range from func
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• Human Being
  ...ocial learning and [[language acquisition]] in juvenile humans. [[Physical anthropology|Physical anthropologists]] argue that a reorganization of the structure of The most widely accepted view among current [[anthropology|anthropologists]] is that ''Homo sapiens'' originated in the African [[sava
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• Race2
  ...l sciences|social scientists]] have re-conceptualized the term "race" as a cultural category or [[social construct]], in other words, as a particular way that ...current inequalities between Blacks and Whites are primarily the result of cultural and historical factors, the result of past racism, of [[slavery]] and of [[
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• Talk:2020-02-10-New Era Transition 83
  ...here will be equality among genders, among societies, among ethnic groups, cultural groups, nationalities, and racial groups. You could apply the same question MM: One would be cultural anthropology and secondly, its partners, social anthropology, sociology, social psychology, and particularly the subordinate areas of st
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• Prayer
  ...f prayer is attested in written sources as early as 5000 years ago. Some [[anthropology|anthropologists]], such as Sir [[Edward Burnett Tylor]] and Sir [[James Geo ...logy of Prayer'' which lists six types of prayer: primitive, ritual, Greek cultural, philosophical, mystical and prophetic. (Christian theology ISBN 0-8010-218
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• Sacred Space
  ...s that a place, its [[structure]], and its [[symbols]] express fundamental cultural [[values]] and [[principles]]. By giving these visible form, the sacred pla ...in Traditional Concepts of Ritual Space in India: Studies in Architectural Anthropology, edited by Jan Pieper, "Art and Archaeology Research Papers," no. 17 (Londo
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• Orality
  Drawing on hundreds of studies from [[anthropology]], [[linguistics]] and the study of [[oral tradition]], Ong summarizes ten ...31-2 Aleksandr Romanovich Luria. ''Cognitive Development: its Social and Cultural Foundations'', Michael Cole (ed.); Martin Lopez-Morillas and Lynn Solotarof
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• Wealth
  [[Anthropology]] characterizes societies, in part, based on a [[society]]'s concept of wea ...conomy and then [[economics]]. This transition took place as a result of a cultural bias inherent in the Enlightenment. Wealth was seen as an objective [[fact]
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• Talk:2021-10-18-NET PMG 16
  ...motivation. Most if not all values that are stated in sociology, cultural anthropology, and so on and written about in popular literature, deal with interpretatio ...use those are harmful. As you know Voodoo is a real religion. It is a real cultural aspect of many other dominant cultures, and it continues to survive unfortu
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• 2016-05-30-New Era Conversations 70
  ...ut future classes and in a basic degree program within sociology or social anthropology or social psychology. You do not need to spend much time with these adjunc ...uing. The difficulty of your world is that you are in an immense, IMMENSE cultural transition. You have nations of people and tribes of people who are still
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• The Shaman Reborn in Cyberspace
  ...social identity formation, group integration and cohesion and to reaffirm cultural values and beliefs (Winkelman 1995). ...ompanied by the inner or outward declaration of wilful intent and possibly cultural context through ritual);
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• Power
  ...power in politics which entails theoretical views similar to notions of [[cultural hegemony]]. These 3 dimensions of power are today often considered definin ...hey are capable of transcendence, but they are compelled into immanence by cultural and social conditions that deny them that transcendence (see Beauvoir, chap
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• Romance
  The cultural traditions of [[marriage]] and [[betrothal]] are the most basic customs in ...'' London: Allen Lane, 1968; New York: Penguin Books, 1994. ''Structural Anthropology.'' (volume 2) London: Allen Lane, 1977; New York: Peregrine Books 1976.
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• Magic
  ...ly instances of much of the magical lore that later became part of Western cultural expectations about the practice of magic, especially [[ritual|ceremonial]] ...Golden Dawn represented perhaps the peak of this wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like [[William Butler Yeats]], [[Algernon Blackwood]], and [[Ar
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• Astronomy
  ...in their cultural context, utilizing [[archaeology|archaeological]] and [[anthropology|anthropological]] evidence.
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