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81Cultural relativism — Compare moral relativism, aesthetic relativism, social constructionism, and cognitive relativism. Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual s… …
82Clifford Geertz — Born August 23, 1926(1926 08 23) San Francisco Died October 30, 2006(2006 10 30) (aged 80 …
83Anthropology — This article is about the social science. For other uses, see Anthropology (disambiguation). Anthropology Fields Archaeology Biological an …
84Harvard Department of Social Relations — The Department of Social Relations for Interdisciplinary Social Science Studies, more commonly known as the Department of Social Relations was an interdisciplinary collaboration among three of the social science departments at Harvard University… …
85Race (classification of human beings) — The term race or racial group usually refers to the concept of categorizing humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of characteristics. [http://www.physanth.org/positions/race.html AAPA Statement on Biological Aspects of… …
86List of Russians — This is a list of people associated with Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russia of today. For a long time Russia has been a multinational country, and many people of different ethnicity contributed to its culture, to its glory, and to its… …
87Morris Edward Opler — Morris E. Opler Morris Edward Opler (May 3, 1907 – May 13, 1996), American anthropologist and advocate of Japanese American civil rights, was born in Buffalo, New York. He was the brother of Marvin Opler, an anthropologist and social psychiatrist …
88Bat Creek inscription — The Bat Creek inscription is an inscription carved on a stone found in a Native American burial mound in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States of America in 1889. The inscription consists of characters loosely resembling the Cherokee alphabet… …
89Theories of religion — can be divided into substantive theories (focusing on what religion is) and functional or reductionist theories (focusing on what it does). Influential substantive theories have been proposed by Tylor and Frazer (focusing on the explanatory value …
90religion, study of — Introduction attempt to understand the various aspects of religion, especially through the use of other intellectual disciplines. The history of mankind has shown the pervasive influences of religion, and thus the study of religion,… …
