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- African American literature [r]: The body of literature produced in the USA by writers of African descent. [e]
- African philosophy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Albert Gallatin [r]: 1761-1849, Swiss born American statesman and anthropologist [e]
- Anatomy [r]: The branch of morphology given to the study of the structure of members of the biological kingdom Animalia (animals). [e]
- Anthropological linguistics [r]: The study of language through human genetics and human development. [e]
- Applied linguistics [r]: The application of linguistic theories to practical issues and problems, such as language learning. [e]
- Applied social sciences [r]: Applied social sciences are those social science disciplines, professions and occupations which seek to use basic social science research and theory to improve the daily life of communities, organizations and persons. [e]
- Astronomy [r]: The study of objects and processes in the observable universe, e.g. stars, planets, comets or asteroids. [e]
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Botany [r]: The study of plants, algae and fungi (mycology). [e]
- Cargo cult [r]: A group of social movements that began in Melanesia in the late nineteenth century which believe that manufactured goods, including canned goods, airplanes, and automobiles, were created by spirits or ancestors of Melanesian people. [e]
- Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. [e]
- Chyi Yu [r]: A singer from Taiwan. [e]
- Claude Lévi-Strauss [r]: French anthropologist who developed structural anthropology as a method of understanding human society and culture. [e]
- Cognitive science [r]: The scientific study either of mind or intelligence and includes parts of cognitive psychology, linguistics and computer science. [e]
- Creole (language) [r]: Native language, such as Haitian Creole, which under most definitions originated as a pidgin (a rudimentary language without native speakers, created by at least two groups of speakers as a contact language. i.e. to allow immediate communication) but became as complex as any other language through being acquired by children as a first language. [e]
- Creolistics [r]: The study of creole and pidgin languages. [e]
- Culture area [r]: A region, in anthropology, in which the environment and cultures are very similar. [e]
- Dravidistan [r]: A proposed sovereign state for all non-Brahmin speakers of Dravidian languages in South Asia. [e]
- Ecological footprint [r]: The sum of all resource-using or waste-producing activities of a biological unit, if converted to units of biologically productive land. [e]
- Editing [r]: Arranging, revising, and preparing a written, audio, or video material for final production usually by a party other than the creator of the material. [e]
- El Señor Presidente [r]: (The President) Novel by Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias, written before 1933, published 1946. [e]
- Ethnic group [r]: A population whose members identify with one another as distinct from others. This usually occurs through a perceived common history, and often also includes shared culture, race, religion, or language. [e]
- Evolution of the human diet [r]: Factors in the development of the human diet in history. [e]
- Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics that concerns itself with how the human faculty of language evolved; multidisciplinary field involving neurolinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology and others. [e]
- Evolutionary psychology [r]: The comparative study of the nervous system and its relation to behaviour across species. [e]
- Fossil hominin species [r]: Twenty recognized species of extinct hominin, found as prehistoric skeletal remains which are archeologically earlier than Neolithic. [e]
- Fossilization (palaeontology) [r]: The set of geological processes that convert organic remains into fossils. [e]
- Geography [r]: Study of the surface of the Earth and the activities of humanity upon it. [e]
- Giving and Lending [r]: Add brief definition or description
- History of linguistics [r]: Chronological study which deavours to describe and explain the human faculty of language. [e]
- Hominin [r]: Primates in the Tribe Hominini which is a relatively recent classification under which it is proposed would fall all of the fossil and living bipedal apes including the Australopithecines, fossil members of the genus Homo and living humans. It is generally replacing the term hominid in the scientific literature. [e]
- Homosexuality [r]: Sexual or romantic attraction to people of the same gender. [e]
- Human evolution [r]: The study of the physical and behavioral genetic adaptations of the species belonging to the subfamily hominidae. [e]
- Human geography [r]: The branch of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the environment. [e]
- Indigenous knowledge system [r]: Set of knowledge, skills and technologies existing and developed around specific conditions of indigenous populations and communities. [e]
- Insect [r]: One of numerous small arthropod animals with six legs, an exoskeleton that grows by molting, and oftentimes wings. [e]
- Integrative medicine [r]: Organized health care that involves willing cooperation between mainstream and complementary medicine [e]
- Intercultural competence [r]: The ability to successfully communicate with people of other cultures. [e]
- Kennewick Man [r]: An Early Holocene human skeleton first discovered near Kennewick, Washington in 1996. [e]
- Language (general) [r]: A type of communication system; this term is used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. [e]
- Lee R. Berger [r]: Anthropologist / archeologist noted for work on Australopithecus africanus and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis. [e]
- Linguistic anthropology [r]: The branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of semiotic and particularly linguistic forms and processes to the interpretation of sociocultural processes. [e]
- Nonprofit Terminology [r]: Terms often used interchangeably to refer to organizations and services not bought and sold in markets or directly controlled by governments. Terms like nonprofit, not-for-profit and nongovernmental emphasize slightly different facets of phenomena occurring 'outside' markets and governments. [e]
- Paleoanthropology in South Africa [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pidgin [r]: A language with no native speakers and few uses, created spontaneously by two or more groups with no common language, using vocabulary and grammar from multiple sources; often a pidgin's grammar is rudimentary, and it has a restricted set of words, but in time they can develop into more complex 'expanded' pidgins with many more functions. [e]
- Poststructuralism [r]: A set of theories and ideas that describe how human beings relate through language and meaning to the world and themselves. [e]
- Race (biology) [r]: Inbreeding group marked by a pre-determined profile of latent factors of hereditary traits. [e]
- Raymond Dart [r]: (1893-1988) Australian anthropologist, best known for discovering Australopithecus africanus in South Africa in 1924. [e]
- René Girard [r]: French literary scholar, anthropologist and theologian, wrote on mimetic desire and sacrifice. [e]
- Ritual [r]: Set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value, which is prescribed by a convention or by the traditions of a community. [e]
- Roman Jakobson [r]: (October 11, 1896 – July 18, 1982) A Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language, poetry, and art. [e]
- Sathya Sai Baba Movement [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sathya Sai Baba [r]: Controversial South Indian guru, religious leader, and orator, often described as a "godman" and miracle worker. [e]
- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge about the physical world derived from the activities of observation and experimentation. [e]
- Social Darwinism [r]: Efforts to draw political conclusions from the theory of evolution by natural selection. [e]
- Socialization [r]: Process by which individuals learn skills, attitudes, values, and patterns of behaviour that enable them to function within a particular culture. [e]
- Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e]
- Sociology [r]: Social science that studies human social behavior or social relations, social institutions and structures, demography, public opinion, social welfare, social psychology and some forms of political behavior, as well as the history of sociology. [e]
- Sri Aurobindo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sympathetic magic [r]: The cultural concept that a symbol, or small aspect, of a more powerful entity can, as desired by the user, invoke or compel that entity [e]
- Tecum Umam [r]: Legendary defender of the Maya and national hero of Guatemala. [e]
- The Hero With A Thousand Faces [r]: Written by Joseph Campbell and first published in 1941, this study traces the story of the hero's journey and transformation through virtually all the mythologies of the world, revealing the one archetype hero in them all. [e]
- Theories of religion [r]: Set of theories which examine the origins of religion, classified into substantive (focusing on what it is) theories and functional or reductionist (focusing on what religions does) theories. [e]
- Tim White [r]: (b. 24 August 1950) American paleoanthropologist and professor of integrative biology, famous for his work on 'Lucy' as Australopithecus afarensis with discoverer Donald Johanson. [e]
- Traditional medicine [r]: Methods of healthcare, not formulated based on scientific models or necessarily having demonstrated efficacy in randomized controlled trials, which still have a long history of safety and presumed efficacy as used in specific cultures [e]
