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The acculturative influence of Western expansion on native cultures.
Industry:Anthropology
In Wallace's typology, these religions have, in addition to shamanic cults, communal cults in which people organize community rituals such as harvest ceremonies and rites of passage.
Industry:Anthropology
Unilineal descent group based on demonstrated descent.
Industry:Anthropology
Regional figure often found among tribal horticulturalists and pastoralists. The big man occupies no office but creates his reputation through entrepreneurship and generosity to others. Neither his wealth nor his position passes to his heirs.
Industry:Anthropology
One of the three principles of exchange; governs exchange between social equals; major exchange mode in band and tribal societies.
Industry:Anthropology
Cultural blends, or mixtures, including religious blends, that emerge from acculturation, particularly under colonialism, such as African, Native American, and Roman Catholic saints and deities in Caribbean vodun, or "voodoo," cults; the exchange of cultural features when cultures come into continuous firsthand contact. Taboo-Set apart as sacred and off-limits to ordinary people; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions.
Industry:Anthropology
Функция, представляющая кривую трансформации экономики, по которым упругость преобразования постоянна.
Industry:Economy
Социальной функции, которая принимает специального счета расходов лицам потери по отношению к статус-кво и что поэтому стремится избежать больших потерь для значительных групп населения. Благодаря Корден (1974).
Industry:Economy
Валюта определяется как заданное сочетание двух или нескольких валют, обычно имеющихся только как единица счета, а не физической валюты. Примерами СДР и ЭКЮ.
Industry:Economy
Вымышленный хорошо, используемый в экономическом анализе стоять в большое количество товаров, обычно все другие товары, чем тот, который находится в центре внимания.
Industry:Economy