just-so story

/ˌd͡ʒʌstˈsəʊ ˌstɔːɹi/

PIE word
 *swé
From just so (“(almost) exactly or precisely like something”, adjective) + story, referring to the series of short stories called Just So Stories (collected in book form in 1902) by the English writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) which described how various animals acquired their distinctive characteristics, such as how the leopard got its spots. According to Kipling, the stories were so titled because they were intended to put his daughter Josephine (“Effie”) to sleep, “and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little word. They had to be told just so; or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence.”

Sociobiological explanations of human behaviour encounter two special difficulties, suggesting that a Darwinian model may be generally inapplicable in this case. […] Secondly, the standard foundation of Darwinian just-so stories does not apply to humans. That foundation is the implication: if adaptive, then genetic—for the inference of adaptation is usually the only basis of a selective story, and Darwinism is a theory of genetic change and variation in populations.

1978 November 16, Stephen Jay Gould, “Sociobiology: The Art of Storytelling”, in Bernard Dixon, editor, New Scientist, volume 80, number 1129, London: IPC Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 532:

(social sciences, especially anthropology, philosophy, chiefly derogatory) An untestable explanation for something, such as a form of behaviour, a biological trait, or a cultural practice.


古人

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (古人):
* → Japanese: 古(こ)人(じん) (kojin)
* → Korean: 고인(古人) (goin)

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/

/kuː³⁵ jɐn²¹/

/kɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/

/kɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/

/kɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zin¹³/

/kɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zin²³/

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/

/kuː³⁵ jɐn²¹/

/kɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/

/kɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/

/kɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zin¹³/

/kɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zin²³/


民俗誌学

民俗誌学 (canonical)
minzokushigaku (romanization)

(anthropology) ethnography - the branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.


fisherfolk

en-noun

fisherfolk (countable and uncountable, plural fisherfolks)

/ˈfɪʃɚˌfoʊk/

From fisher (“person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport”) + folk; compare fisherman.

compound

(anthropology) Members of a culture that is dominated by fishing.

kalastajakansan jäsen

members of a culture that is dominated by fishing


acculturare

it-verb

acculturàre (first-person singular present accultùro, first-person singular past historic acculturài, past participle acculturàto, auxiliary avére)

acculturàre (canonical)
accultùro (first-person present singular)
acculturài (first-person historic past singular)
acculturàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
acculturàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
acculturàndo (gerund)
acculturànte (participle present)
acculturàto (participle past)
accultùro (first-person indicative present singular)
accultùri (indicative present second-person singular)
accultùra (indicative present singular third-person)
acculturiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
acculturàte (indicative plural present second-person)
accultùrano (indicative plural present third-person)
acculturàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
acculturàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
acculturàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
acculturavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
acculturavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
acculturàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
acculturài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
acculturàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
acculturò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
acculturàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
acculturàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
acculturàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
acculturerò (first-person future indicative singular)
acculturerài (future indicative second-person singular)
acculturerà (future indicative singular third-person)
acculturerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
accultureréte (future indicative plural second-person)
acculturerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
acculturerèi (conditional first-person present singular)
acculturerésti (conditional present second-person singular)
acculturerèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
acculturerébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
acculturerémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
accultureréste (conditional plural present second-person)
acculturerèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
acculturerébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
accultùri (first-person present singular subjunctive)
accultùri (present second-person singular subjunctive)
accultùri (present singular subjunctive third-person)
acculturiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
acculturiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
accultùrino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
acculturàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
acculturàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
acculturàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
acculturàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
acculturàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
acculturàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
accultùra (imperative second-person singular)
accultùri (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
acculturiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
acculturàte (imperative plural second-person)
accultùrino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
acculturàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
accultùri (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
acculturiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
acculturàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
accultùrino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

(transitive, sociology, ethnology) to acculturate


FBS

en-noun

FBS (countable and uncountable, plural FBSs)

Even more, cross-cousins on the mother's side (MBS and MBD) are called by different terms – the same as for M and MB, respectively – than those on the father's side (FBS and FBD). Finally, FB is called by the same term as F,[…]

2009 June 24, Jack David Eller, Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 196:

(anthropology) Initialism of father's brother's son.


comparative ethics

(anthropology, sociology, ethics) A type of descriptive ethics, focused on studying the nature and origins of beliefs about morality held by people in diverse social or cultural groups.


antropometria

antropometria (nominative singular)
antropometrii (genitive singular)
antropometrii (dative singular)
antropometrię (accusative singular)
antropometrią (instrumental singular)
antropometrii (locative singular)
antropometrio (singular vocative)


avunculocal

(anthropology, of a society, culture, or system) Characterized by couples living with the husband's maternal uncle.


新人

/ɕin⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/sɐn⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/sɐn⁵⁵ jɐn²¹⁻³⁵/

/siŋ⁵³⁻³³ ^((Ø-))ŋiŋ⁵³/

/siŋ³³⁻²³ naŋ⁵⁵/

/seŋ³³⁻²³ naŋ⁵⁵/

/ɕin⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/sɐn⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/sɐn⁵⁵ jɐn²¹⁻³⁵/

/siŋ⁵³⁻³³ ^((Ø-))ŋiŋ⁵³/

/siŋ³³⁻²³ naŋ⁵⁵/

/seŋ³³⁻²³ naŋ⁵⁵/

Homo sapiens sapiens
Homo sapiens sapiens#Translingual


stirp

(biology, anthropology) A line descended from a single ancestor.


massify

en-verb

massify (third-person singular simple present massifies, present participle massifying, simple past and past participle massified)

massifies (present singular third-person)
massifying (participle present)
massified (participle past)
massified (past)

(transitive and intransitive, anthropology) To become, or cause to become, oriented toward mass production, mass consumption, and high throughput rather than individuality.


Natufian

Coined by Dorothy Garrod after Wadi an-Natuf, the location of the Shuqba cave in West Bank where these people lived, + -ian.

(archaeology, anthropology) Of, or relating to a Mesolithic-era hunter-gatherer people in the Mediterranean area around Levant, at about 13,000 to 11,000 BC.


etnografico

it-adj

etnografico (feminine etnografica, masculine plural etnografici, feminine plural etnografiche)

etnografica (feminine)
etnografici (masculine plural)
etnografiche (feminine plural)


autonym

Deutsche is the autonym of the people known in English as Germans.

(linguistics, anthropology) A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.


etnológia

head

etnológia (usually uncountable, plural etnológiák)

etnológiák (plural)
etnológia (nominative singular)
etnológiák (nominative plural)
etnológiát (accusative singular)
etnológiákat (accusative plural)
etnológiának (dative singular)
etnológiáknak (dative plural)
etnológiával (instrumental singular)
etnológiákkal (instrumental plural)
etnológiáért (causal-final singular)
etnológiákért (causal-final plural)
etnológiává (singular translative)
etnológiákká (plural translative)
etnológiáig (singular terminative)
etnológiákig (plural terminative)
etnológiaként (essive-formal singular)
etnológiákként (essive-formal plural)
etnológiául (essive-modal singular)
etnológiában (inessive singular)
etnológiákban (inessive plural)
etnológián (singular superessive)
etnológiákon (plural superessive)
etnológiánál (adessive singular)
etnológiáknál (adessive plural)
etnológiába (illative singular)
etnológiákba (illative plural)
etnológiára (singular sublative)
etnológiákra (plural sublative)
etnológiához (allative singular)
etnológiákhoz (allative plural)
etnológiából (elative singular)
etnológiákból (elative plural)
etnológiáról (delative singular)
etnológiákról (delative plural)
etnológiától (ablative singular)
etnológiáktól (ablative plural)
etnológiáé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
etnológiáké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
etnológiáéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
etnológiákéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
etnológiám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
etnológiáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
etnológiád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
etnológiáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
etnológiája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
etnológiái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
etnológiánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
etnológiáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
etnológiátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
etnológiáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
etnológiájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
etnológiáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From English ethnology. With -lógia (“-logy”) ending. See also etno- (“ethno-”).

(anthropology) ethnology (the branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures)


fetišismus

fetišismus (nominative singular)
fetišismy (nominative plural)
fetišismu (genitive singular)
fetišismů (genitive plural)
fetišismu (dative singular)
fetišismům (dative plural)
fetišismus (accusative singular)
fetišismy (accusative plural)
fetišisme (singular vocative)
fetišismy (plural vocative)
fetišismu (locative singular)
fetišismech (locative plural)
fetišismem (instrumental singular)
fetišismy (instrumental plural)

(ethnography, religion) fetishism (belief that natural objects have supernatural powers)


australopithecine

/ˌɒstɹələ(ʊ)ˈpɪθɪsiːn/

Originally in reference to a now-obsolete subfamily Australopithecinae, formed in New Latin, from Latin austrālis (“southern”) + Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape”).

It is as if there were enshrined in these legends a racial memory of the Australopithicines who came close but never did make it to full humanity.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 28:

Australopithecines came in several varieties, some slender and gracile, like Raymond Dart's Taung child, others more sturdy and robust, but all were capable of walking upright.

2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 391:

Caspari and Lee carried out comparisons ranging from ancient hominins such as australopithecines through to Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, assessing the ratios of young adults to old adults.

2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 151:

(anthropology, paleontology) Any of several extinct hominids, belonging to the genera Australopithecus, Paranthropus when seen as distinct, and sometimes other closely related genera.


australopithecine

en-adj

australopithecine (comparative more australopithecine, superlative most australopithecine)

more australopithecine (comparative)
most australopithecine (superlative)

/ˌɒstɹələ(ʊ)ˈpɪθɪsiːn/

(anthropology, paleontology) Of or pertaining to these hominids.


coresidence

en-noun

coresidence (countable and uncountable, plural coresidences)

The question of coresidence is of special interest in the Northwest Amazon region because among tribes that do not have sibs but are organized on the basis of patrilocal families it is coresidence rather than kinship that has been reported to be the governor of exogamy (Kirchoff, 1931).

1979, Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon, Second Edition, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, pages 42–3:

(anthropology) Living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.


Völkerkunde

de-noun

Völkerkunde f (genitive Völkerkunde, no plural)

Völkerkunde (genitive)
Völkerkunde (nominative singular)
Völkerkunde (genitive singular)
Völkerkunde (dative singular)
Völkerkunde (accusative singular)

Volk (“people, nation”) + Kunde (“science, knowledge”)

compound

(anthropology) ethnology (branch of anthropology)


tyrkískur

is-decl-adj-strong

positive (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-base

positive (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-weak

positive (weak declension)

is-decl-adj-base

positive (weak declension)

comparative

is-decl-adj-strong

superlative (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-base

superlative (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-weak

superlative (weak declension)

is-decl-adj-base

superlative (weak declension)

tyrkískur (masculine nominative singular)
tyrkísk (feminine nominative singular)
tyrkískt (neuter nominative singular)
tyrkískan (accusative masculine singular)
tyrkíska (accusative feminine singular)
tyrkískt (accusative neuter singular)
tyrkískum (dative masculine singular)
tyrkískri (dative feminine singular)
tyrkísku (dative neuter singular)
tyrkísks (genitive masculine singular)
tyrkískrar (feminine genitive singular)
tyrkísks (genitive neuter singular)
tyrkískir (masculine nominative plural)
tyrkískar (feminine nominative plural)
tyrkísk (neuter nominative plural)
tyrkíska (accusative masculine plural)
tyrkískar (accusative feminine plural)
tyrkísk (accusative neuter plural)
tyrkískum (dative masculine plural)
tyrkískum (dative feminine plural)
tyrkískum (dative neuter plural)
tyrkískra (genitive masculine plural)
tyrkískra (feminine genitive plural)
tyrkískra (genitive neuter plural)
tyrkíski (masculine nominative singular)
tyrkíska (feminine nominative singular)
tyrkíska (neuter nominative singular)
tyrkíska (accusative masculine singular)
tyrkísku (accusative feminine singular)
tyrkíska (accusative neuter singular)
tyrkíska (dative masculine singular)
tyrkísku (dative feminine singular)
tyrkíska (dative neuter singular)
tyrkíska (genitive masculine singular)
tyrkísku (feminine genitive singular)
tyrkíska (genitive neuter singular)
tyrkísku (masculine nominative plural)
tyrkísku (feminine nominative plural)
tyrkísku (neuter nominative plural)
tyrkísku (accusative masculine plural)
tyrkísku (accusative feminine plural)
tyrkísku (accusative neuter plural)
tyrkísku (dative masculine plural)
tyrkísku (dative feminine plural)
tyrkísku (dative neuter plural)
tyrkísku (genitive masculine plural)
tyrkísku (feminine genitive plural)
tyrkísku (genitive neuter plural)
tyrkískari (comparative masculine nominative singular)
tyrkískari (comparative feminine nominative singular)
tyrkískara (comparative neuter nominative singular)
tyrkískari (accusative comparative masculine singular)
tyrkískari (accusative comparative feminine singular)
tyrkískara (accusative comparative neuter singular)
tyrkískari (comparative dative masculine singular)
tyrkískari (comparative dative feminine singular)
tyrkískara (comparative dative neuter singular)
tyrkískari (comparative genitive masculine singular)
tyrkískari (comparative feminine genitive singular)
tyrkískara (comparative genitive neuter singular)
tyrkískari (comparative masculine nominative plural)
tyrkískari (comparative feminine nominative plural)
tyrkískari (comparative neuter nominative plural)
tyrkískari (accusative comparative masculine plural)
tyrkískari (accusative comparative feminine plural)
tyrkískari (accusative comparative neuter plural)
tyrkískari (comparative dative masculine plural)
tyrkískari (comparative dative feminine plural)
tyrkískari (comparative dative neuter plural)
tyrkískari (comparative genitive masculine plural)
tyrkískari (comparative feminine genitive plural)
tyrkískari (comparative genitive neuter plural)
tyrkískastur (masculine nominative singular superlative)
tyrkískust (feminine nominative singular superlative)
tyrkískast (neuter nominative singular superlative)
tyrkískastan (accusative masculine singular superlative)
tyrkískasta (accusative feminine singular superlative)
tyrkískast (accusative neuter singular superlative)
tyrkískustum (dative masculine singular superlative)
tyrkískastri (dative feminine singular superlative)
tyrkískustu (dative neuter singular superlative)
tyrkískasts (genitive masculine singular superlative)
tyrkískastrar (feminine genitive singular superlative)
tyrkískasts (genitive neuter singular superlative)
tyrkískastir (masculine nominative plural superlative)
tyrkískastar (feminine nominative plural superlative)
tyrkískust (neuter nominative plural superlative)
tyrkískasta (accusative masculine plural superlative)
tyrkískastar (accusative feminine plural superlative)
tyrkískust (accusative neuter plural superlative)
tyrkískustum (dative masculine plural superlative)
tyrkískustum (dative feminine plural superlative)
tyrkískustum (dative neuter plural superlative)
tyrkískastra (genitive masculine plural superlative)
tyrkískastra (feminine genitive plural superlative)
tyrkískastra (genitive neuter plural superlative)
tyrkískasti (masculine nominative singular superlative)
tyrkískasta (feminine nominative singular superlative)
tyrkískasta (neuter nominative singular superlative)
tyrkískasta (accusative masculine singular superlative)
tyrkískustu (accusative feminine singular superlative)
tyrkískasta (accusative neuter singular superlative)
tyrkískasta (dative masculine singular superlative)
tyrkískustu (dative feminine singular superlative)
tyrkískasta (dative neuter singular superlative)
tyrkískasta (genitive masculine singular superlative)
tyrkískustu (feminine genitive singular superlative)
tyrkískasta (genitive neuter singular superlative)
tyrkískustu (masculine nominative plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (feminine nominative plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (neuter nominative plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (accusative masculine plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (accusative feminine plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (accusative neuter plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (dative masculine plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (dative feminine plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (dative neuter plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (genitive masculine plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (feminine genitive plural superlative)
tyrkískustu (genitive neuter plural superlative)


hypodigm

Coined in 1940 by George Gaylord Simpson, Types in Modern Taxonomy, published in American Journal of Science #238, p. 418.

(taxonomy, anthropology) A sample from which the characters of a population are to be inferred.


agropastoralist

(anthropology) A member of a people living by a mixture of agriculture and livestock herding


εφηβεία

head

εφηβεία • (efiveía) f (plural εφηβείες)

el-noun

εφηβεία • (efiveía) f (plural εφηβείες)

efiveía (romanization)
εφηβείες (plural)
εφηβεία (nominative singular)
εφηβείες (nominative plural)
εφηβείας (genitive singular)
εφηβειών (genitive plural)
εφηβεία (accusative singular)
εφηβείες (accusative plural)
εφηβεία (singular vocative)
εφηβείες (plural vocative)

(anthropology, medicine) adolescence, puberty


keyness

The keyness of a summarizing symbol derives from the relative fundamentality (or ultimacy) of the meanings which it formulates, relative to other meanings of the system.

1973, Sherry B. Ortner, “On Key Symbols”, in American Anthropology, volume 75:

(anthropology) The degree to which something is key, or important.


mongoloide

pt-noun

mongoloide m or f by sense (plural mongoloides)

(anthropology) mongoloid (member of the race native to North Asia, East Asia, Oceania and Greenland)


Proto-Yeniseian

(anthropology) A person who spoke the Proto-Yeniseian language.

Proto-ienisseïen

person who spoke the Proto-Yeniseain language


Proto-Yeniseian

(linguistics, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the Proto-Yeniseian language, or the people who spoke it.


endocannibalism

(anthropology) A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.


exocannibalism

(anthropology) A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.


animatism

en-noun

animatism (countable and uncountable, plural animatisms)

From animate + -ism. Originally coined by British anthropologist Robert Marett to refer to "a belief in a generalized, impersonal power over which people have some measure of control".

(anthropology) The belief that everything is pervaded by a life force giving each inanimate object a consciousness or personality, but not a soul as in animism.


Abitibi

From Algonquin abi'ta-bi-g (“halfway across water”), from abi'ta (“halfway”) + bi (“water”).

bor

(ethnography, Canada) A member of a certain Algonquin people of Ontario.


klan

klanik (diminutive)
klan (nominative singular)
klany (nominative plural)
klanu (genitive singular)
klanów (genitive plural)
klanowi (dative singular)
klanom (dative plural)
klan (accusative singular)
klany (accusative plural)
klanem (instrumental singular)
klanami (instrumental plural)
klanie (locative singular)
klanach (locative plural)
klanie (singular vocative)
klany (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann, from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.

(anthropology) tribal community (primitive community descended from a common ancestor, living in a common territory, sharing a common name and subject to the authority of a single chieftain)


klan

head

klan (definite accusative klanı, plural klanlar)

klanı (accusative definite)
klanlar (plural)
klan (nominative singular)
klanlar (nominative plural)
klanı (accusative definite singular)
klanları (accusative definite plural)
klana (dative singular)
klanlara (dative plural)
klanda (locative singular)
klanlarda (locative plural)
klandan (ablative singular)
klanlardan (ablative plural)
klanın (genitive singular)
klanların (genitive plural)

From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (klan), from French clan, from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann, from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.


urtext

(music, linguistics, anthropology) The original version of a piece of music or text, as created by the composer or writer.


matrilineality

(anthropology) The condition of being matrilineal


patrilineality

en-noun

patrilineality (countable and uncountable, plural patrilinealities)

(uncountable, anthropology) The state or condition of conforming to agnatic lineality, the condition of being patrilineal.

(countable, anthropology) An example of patrilineal descent or kinship.


spearthrower

1988, Joyce A, Tyldesley, S. R. Snape, Nazlet Tuna: An Archaeological Survey in Middle Egypt, British Archaeological Reports International Series: 414, page 50,
The broad spearthrowers and the long spearthrowers, depicted in ‘early’ and ‘late’ styles respectively, can likewise be related to Cundy′s analysis.

The bearer usually also holds a spearthrower (atlatl), fashioned as an arm-length wand that has circular white (shell) finger holds and a hooked end to launch the spears; these spearthrowers may be embellished with eagle feathers and down balls (Fig. 19ac).

2007, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate, page 58:

In the Bunjilaka Gallery of the Melbourne Museum the spearthrower, shown in Figure 4, is on display. The lines on the spearthrower interpret the Journey of the Great Snake Liru, a Dreamtime ancestor.

2010, Dale Kerwin, Aboriginal Dreaming Paths and Trading Routes: The Colonisation of the Australian Economic Landscape, page 10:

(anthropology, archaeology) A hand-held tool used as a lever to increase the throwing distance and penetrating force of a spear or dart, an atlatl; a woomera.


liminality

liminality (countable and uncountable, plural liminalities)

The second way Novalis seeks to repotentize his thought is by striving to evoke feelings conducive to liminality.

1998, Joseph Frederick Bailey, Theorizing night vision: Novalis's "Hymnen an die Nacht.", page 209:

(anthropology, philosophy, sociology, psychology) The state or quality of ambiguity which exists in the middle stage of certain events or rituals (such as a rite of passage or a society-wide revolution), during which the participating individual or group no longer holds its pre-ritual status but has not yet attained the status it will hold when the ritual has been completed.


metsästäjä-keräilijä

metsästäjä-keräilijä (nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijät (nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijä (accusative nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijät (accusative nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijän (accusative genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijät (accusative genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijän (genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiden (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöitten (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäin (genitive plural rare)
metsästäjä-keräilijää (partitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöitä (partitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijässä (inessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöissä (inessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijästä (elative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöistä (elative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijään (illative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöihin (illative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijällä (adessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöillä (adessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijältä (ablative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiltä (ablative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijälle (allative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöille (allative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänä (essive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinä (essive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäksi (singular translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiksi (plural translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijättä (abessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittä (abessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
metsästäjä-keräilijäni (nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijäni (nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäni (accusative nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijäni (accusative nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäni (accusative genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijäni (accusative genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäni (genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöideni (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöitteni (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäini (genitive plural rare)
metsästäjä-keräilijääni (partitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöitäni (partitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijässäni (inessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöissäni (inessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijästäni (elative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöistäni (elative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijääni (illative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöihini (illative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijälläni (adessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöilläni (adessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijältäni (ablative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiltäni (ablative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijälleni (allative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöilleni (allative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänäni (essive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinäni (essive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäkseni (singular translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijöikseni (plural translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijättäni (abessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittäni (abessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöineni (comitative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäsi (nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijäsi (nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäsi (accusative nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijäsi (accusative nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäsi (accusative genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijäsi (accusative genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäsi (genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöidesi (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittesi (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäisi (genitive plural rare)
metsästäjä-keräilijääsi (partitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöitäsi (partitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijässäsi (inessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöissäsi (inessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijästäsi (elative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöistäsi (elative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijääsi (illative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöihisi (illative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijälläsi (adessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöilläsi (adessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijältäsi (ablative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiltäsi (ablative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijällesi (allative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöillesi (allative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänäsi (essive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinäsi (essive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäksesi (singular translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiksesi (plural translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijättäsi (abessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittäsi (abessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinesi (comitative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijämme (nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijämme (nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijämme (accusative nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijämme (accusative nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijämme (accusative genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijämme (accusative genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijämme (genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöidemme (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittemme (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäimme (genitive plural rare)
metsästäjä-keräilijäämme (partitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöitämme (partitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijässämme (inessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöissämme (inessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijästämme (elative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöistämme (elative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäämme (illative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöihimme (illative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijällämme (adessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöillämme (adessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijältämme (ablative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiltämme (ablative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijällemme (allative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöillemme (allative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänämme (essive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinämme (essive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäksemme (singular translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiksemme (plural translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijättämme (abessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittämme (abessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinemme (comitative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänne (nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijänne (nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänne (accusative nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijänne (accusative nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänne (accusative genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijänne (accusative genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänne (genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöidenne (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittenne (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäinne (genitive plural rare)
metsästäjä-keräilijäänne (partitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöitänne (partitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijässänne (inessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöissänne (inessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijästänne (elative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöistänne (elative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäänne (illative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöihinne (illative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijällänne (adessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöillänne (adessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijältänne (ablative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiltänne (ablative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijällenne (allative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöillenne (allative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänänne (essive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinänne (essive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäksenne (singular translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiksenne (plural translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijättänne (abessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittänne (abessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinenne (comitative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänsä (nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijänsä (nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänsä (accusative nominative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijänsä (accusative nominative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänsä (accusative genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijänsä (accusative genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänsä (genitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöidensä (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittensä (genitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäinsä (genitive plural rare)
metsästäjä-keräilijäänsä (partitive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöitään (partitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöitänsä (partitive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijässään (inessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijässänsä (inessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöissään (inessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöissänsä (inessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijästään (elative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijästänsä (elative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöistään (elative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöistänsä (elative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäänsä (illative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöihinsä (illative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijällään (adessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijällänsä (adessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöillään (adessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöillänsä (adessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijältään (ablative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijältänsä (ablative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiltään (ablative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiltänsä (ablative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijälleen (allative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijällensä (allative singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöilleen (allative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöillensä (allative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijänään (essive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijänänsä (essive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinään (essive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinänsä (essive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijäkseen (singular translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijäksensä (singular translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijöikseen (plural translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijöiksensä (plural translative)
metsästäjä-keräilijättään (abessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijättänsä (abessive singular)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittään (abessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöittänsä (abessive plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöineen (comitative plural)
metsästäjä-keräilijöinensä (comitative plural)


Ethnologie

de-noun

Ethnologie f (genitive Ethnologie, no plural)

Ethnologie (genitive)
Ethnologie (nominative singular)
Ethnologie (genitive singular)
Ethnologie (dative singular)
Ethnologie (accusative singular)

(anthropology) ethnology (branch of anthropology)


matrifocal

en-adj

matrifocal (comparative more matrifocal, superlative most matrifocal)

more matrifocal (comparative)
most matrifocal (superlative)

(anthropology) Family structure in which mothers head families and fathers play a less important role in the home and in bringing up children.


matrifocal

es-adj

matrifocal m or f (masculine and feminine plural matrifocales)

matrifocales (feminine masculine plural)


matrilateral

(anthropology) Related through one's maternal side.


matrilateral

matrilateral m or f (masculine and feminine plural matrilaterales)

matrilaterales (feminine masculine plural)


uncontacted

(anthropology, of a tribal society) Without regular contact with non-tribal societies.


Xanthochroi

Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley, from Ancient Greek ξανθός (xanthós, “fair, yellow, golden, blond”), and either χρώς (khrṓs, “skin”), or ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale”).

der

The furthermost limit of the Xanthochroi north-westward is Iceland and the British Isles

1865, Thomas H. Huxley, On the Methods and Results of Ethnology:

(dated, anthropology) A division of the human population having fair skin and wavy blond hair.


cross-cousin

Many societies forbid marriage between parallel cousins, but encourage marriage between cross-cousins or second cross-cousins.

(anthropology) The child of one's father's sister or of one's mother's brother; a cousin related via opposite-gender siblings rather than same-gender ones (the latter being a parallel cousin).

geparenca kuzo

relationship between two cousins or two groups of cousins whose parents are brother and sister, respectively


Hittitologist

(anthropology, linguistics) an archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in the study of the Ancient Hittites and their Near Eastern Empire which was based in Hattusa in modern day Anatolia.


omofago

it-adj

omofago (feminine omofaga, masculine plural omofagi or omofaghi, feminine plural omofaghe)

omofaga (feminine)
omofagi (masculine plural)
omofaghi (masculine plural)
omofaghe (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὠμοφάγος (ōmophágos), from ὠμός (ōmós) + -φάγος (-phágos). By surface analysis, omo- + -fago.


calling name

(anthropology, linguistics) The name by which a person is normally identified in conversation.

roepnaam

name by which a person is identified in conversation


clã

Borrowed from French clan. Doublet of planta.

(ethnography) clan (group of closely interrelated families, especially among Gaelic-speaking peoples)

(anthropology) clan (intermediate group between family and tribe, whose members consider themselves descendants of the same ancestor, often of a mythical nature and symbolized by a totem)


antropogeografia

antropogeografia (nominative singular)
antropogeografii (genitive singular)
antropogeografii (dative singular)
antropogeografię (accusative singular)
antropogeografią (instrumental singular)
antropogeografii (locative singular)
antropogeografio (singular vocative)

(anthropology, geography) human geography, anthropogeography


antropogeografia

/ɐ̃ˌtɾɔ.pɔ.ʒju.ɡɾɐˈfi.ɐ/

[ɐ̃ˌtɾɔ.pɔ.ʒju.ɣɾɐˈfi.ɐ]

(anthropology) anthropogeography (study of the geographical distribution of humankind)


ethnolinguistic

Baker (1972) identified four varieties of Mauritian creole associated with different ethnolinguistic groups.

1989, John Holm, Pidgins and Creoles, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 398:

(anthropology) Associated with a particular ethnicity and a particular variety of language.


antropologicamente

(anthropology) anthropologically (in a manner which pertains to anthropology)


lissotrichous

en-adj

lissotrichous (comparative more lissotrichous, superlative most lissotrichous)

more lissotrichous (comparative)
most lissotrichous (superlative)

From Ancient Greek λισσός (lissós, “smooth”) + θρίξ (thríx) + -ous.

(anthropology, rare) Straight-haired or smooth-haired; belonging to the lissotrichi.


Kulturschock

de-noun

Kulturschock m (strong, genitive Kulturschockes or Kulturschocks, plural Kulturschocks or Kulturschocke)

Kulturschockes (genitive)
Kulturschocks (genitive)
Kulturschocks (plural)
Kulturschocke (plural)
Kulturschock (nominative singular)
Kulturschocks (definite nominative plural)
Kulturschocke (dated definite nominative plural)
Kulturschocks (genitive singular)
Kulturschockes (genitive singular)
Kulturschocks (definite genitive plural)
Kulturschocke (dated definite genitive plural)
Kulturschock (dative singular)
Kulturschocke (dative singular)
Kulturschocks (dative definite plural)
Kulturschocken (dated dative definite plural)
Kulturschock (accusative singular)
Kulturschocks (accusative definite plural)
Kulturschocke (accusative dated definite plural)

[kʊlˈtuːɐ̯ˌʃɔk]


europoide

pt-noun

europoide m or f by sense (plural europoides)

[eʊ̯.ɾoˈpɔɪ̯.d͡ʒi]

[eʊ̯.ɾoˈpɔɪ̯.d͡ʒi]


europoide

[eʊ̯.ɾoˈpɔɪ̯.d͡ʒi]

[eʊ̯.ɾoˈpɔɪ̯.d͡ʒi]


matrifocality

(anthropology) The state or condition of being matrifocal.

matrifocalidad

the state or condition of being matrifocal


IEA

w:Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography

(ethnography, anthropology) Initialism of Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography: a Russian institute of research, specializing in ethnographic studies of cultural and physical anthropology.


北京人

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/pɐk̚⁵ kɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/pak̚³²⁻⁴ kiã⁴⁴⁻²² laŋ²⁴/

/pak̚⁵⁻²⁴ kiã³³ laŋ²⁴/

/pak̚³²⁻⁵ kiã⁴⁴⁻²² laŋ¹³/

/pak̚³²⁻⁴ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²⁴/

/pak̚³²⁻⁴ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²³/

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/pɐk̚⁵ kɪŋ⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/pak̚³²⁻⁴ kiã⁴⁴⁻²² laŋ²⁴/

/pak̚⁵⁻²⁴ kiã³³ laŋ²⁴/

/pak̚³²⁻⁵ kiã⁴⁴⁻²² laŋ¹³/

/pak̚³²⁻⁴ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²⁴/

/pak̚³²⁻⁴ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ laŋ²³/

Homo erectus pekinensis
Homo erectus pekinensis#Translingual

(paleontology, archaeology, anthropology) Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis)


africanismo

(anthropology) Africanism (an African cultural practice)


phratry

PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
From Latin phrātria, from Ancient Greek φρατρία (phratría, “tribe, clan”), from φράτηρ (phrátēr) + -ία (-ía).

uder

The moieties are linked to or bear the names of beings or forces expressing the cosmic dichotomy. Most common are heaven and earth moieties, "above" and "below," or moieties named after birds and land animals (or aquatic animals), as is the case among the Winnebago and in the phratry system of the Northwest Coast Indians.

1979, Åke Hultkrantz, “The Great Tribal Ceremonies”, in Monica Setterwall, transl., The Religions of the American Indians, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, published 1980, →ISBN, part I (Tribal Religions), page 112:

(anthropology, dated) A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.


Sinanthropus

(anthropology, paleontology, archaeology, obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae – a group of extinct bipedal hominids.


Zinjanthropus

From Zinj (“East Africa”) + Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man”).


australopith

/ˈɒstɹələˌpɪθ/

The incisors are more similar in size to the molars compared to earlier australopiths—a condition which is also more humanlike.
The limb bones indicate A. garhi had small stature like earlier australopiths.

2007, Holly M. Dunsworth, Human Origins 101, page 78:

Most authorities would nowadays concur that the australopiths were generally committed to habitats with at least some trees, to which they were more or less tied for sleeping and for shelter from predators during the day, as well as for a large part of their sustenance.

2008, Rob DeSalle, Ian Tattersall, Human Origins: What Bones And Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves, page 118:

Later we'll consider how these principles apply to australopith craniofacial function, but first let's review briefly how different australopiths accommodated large teeth and big masticatory muscles, and how they grew large, buttressed faces.

2011, Daniel E. Lieberman, The Evolution of the Human Head, page 451:

(anthropology, paleontology) Any of the hominids of the extinct genus Australopithecus.

australopithecine

depending on the classification scheme used


australopith

en-adj

australopith (comparative more australopith, superlative most australopith)

more australopith (comparative)
most australopith (superlative)

/ˈɒstɹələˌpɪθ/

(anthropology, paleontology) Of or pertaining to the hominids of the extinct genus Australopithecus.


dancis

dancis (nominative singular)
danči (nominative plural)
danci (accusative singular)
dančus (accusative plural)
danča (genitive singular)
danču (genitive plural)
dancim (dative singular)
dančiem (dative plural)
danci (instrumental singular)
dančiem (instrumental plural)
dancī (locative singular)
dančos (locative plural)
danci (singular vocative)
danči (plural vocative)

garais dancis

dejot krusta danci

es šajā dancī tik un tā nepiedalīšos

I will not participate like that in this (traditional) dance

(ethnography) Latvian traditional, folkloric dances


arabista

pt-noun

arabista m or f by sense (plural arabistas)

[ɐ.ɾɐˈβiʃ.tɐ]

(anthropology, linguistics) Arabist (a scholar who studies Arab or Arabic culture, politics or language)


ενδογαμία

endogamía (romanization)
ενδογαμία (nominative singular)
ενδογαμίας (genitive singular)
ενδογαμία (accusative singular)
ενδογαμία (singular vocative)


nomada

nomada (nominative singular)
nomadowie (nominative plural)
nomadzi (nominative plural)
nomady (genitive singular)
nomadów (genitive plural)
nomadzie (dative singular)
nomadom (dative plural)
nomadę (accusative singular)
nomadów (accusative plural)
nomadą (instrumental singular)
nomadami (instrumental plural)
nomadzie (locative singular)
nomadach (locative plural)
nomado (singular vocative)
nomadowie (plural vocative)
nomadzi (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French nomade, fom Middle French nomade, from Latin nomas, from Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás).

(anthropology) migrant, nomad, traveller (member of society or class who wander with their herds)


patriarki

id-noun

patriarki (plural patriarki-patriarki, first-person possessive patriarkiku, second-person possessive patriarkimu, third-person possessive patriarkinya)

patriarki-patriarki (plural)
patriarkiku (first-person possessive)
patriarkimu (possessive second-person)
patriarkinya (possessive third-person)

Internationalism, perhaps borrowed from English patriarchy, from Latin patriarchia, from Byzantine Greek πατριαρχία (patriarkhía), from Koine Greek πατριάρχης (patriárkhēs, “patriarch”), from πατρία (patría) and ἄρχω (árkhō). Doublet of patriarkat.

der

(anthropology, history) a social system in which the father is head of the household, having authority over women and children, and in which lineage is traced through the male line.


sédentariser

sédentariser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
sédentarisant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
sédentarisé (participle past)
sédentarise (first-person indicative present singular)
sédentarises (indicative present second-person singular)
sédentarise (indicative present singular third-person)
sédentarisons (first-person indicative plural present)
sédentarisez (indicative plural present second-person)
sédentarisent (indicative plural present third-person)
sédentarisais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sédentarisais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sédentarisait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sédentarisions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sédentarisiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sédentarisaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sédentarisai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
sédentarisas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
sédentarisa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
sédentarisâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
sédentarisâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
sédentarisèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
sédentariserai (first-person future indicative singular)
sédentariseras (future indicative second-person singular)
sédentarisera (future indicative singular third-person)
sédentariserons (first-person future indicative plural)
sédentariserez (future indicative plural second-person)
sédentariseront (future indicative plural third-person)
sédentariserais (conditional first-person singular)
sédentariserais (conditional second-person singular)
sédentariserait (conditional singular third-person)
sédentariserions (conditional first-person plural)
sédentariseriez (conditional plural second-person)
sédentariseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
sédentarise (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sédentarises (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sédentarise (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sédentarisions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sédentarisiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sédentarisent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sédentarisasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sédentarisasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sédentarisât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sédentarisassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sédentarisassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sédentarisassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sédentarise (imperative second-person singular)
sédentarisons (first-person imperative plural)
sédentarisez (imperative plural second-person)

(intransitive, ethnology) to settle (set up as a swelling)


arisch

de-adj

arisch (strong nominative masculine singular arischer, not comparable)

arischer (masculine nominative singular strong)
arisch (masculine predicative singular)
arisch (feminine predicative singular)
arisch (neuter predicative singular)
arisch (plural predicative)
arischer (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
arische (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
arisches (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
arische (nominative plural strong without-article)
arischen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
arischer (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
arischen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
arischer (genitive plural strong without-article)
arischem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
arischer (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
arischem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
arischen (dative plural strong without-article)
arischen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
arische (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
arisches (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
arische (accusative plural strong without-article)
der arische (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die arische (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das arische (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die arischen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des arischen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der arischen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des arischen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der arischen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem arischen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der arischen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem arischen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den arischen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den arischen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die arische (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das arische (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die arischen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein arischer (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine arische (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein arisches (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
arischen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine arischen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines arischen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer arischen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines arischen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
arischen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner arischen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem arischen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer arischen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem arischen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
arischen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen arischen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen arischen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine arische (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein arisches (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
arischen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine arischen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)

(ethnography, obsolete, relational) Aryan (relating to the Caucasian or Indo-European people)


etnografio

eo-head

etnografio (uncountable, accusative etnografion)


etnologio

etnologio (uncountable, accusative etnologion)


celtismo

O CELTISMO EN GALICIA CORROBORADO POLA ARQUEOLOXÍA

O rego da cultura in January-March, 1983, Grial, Galaxia, page 123

CELTISM IN GALICIA CORROBORATED BY ARCHAEOLOGY

(anthropology, archaeology) the study of Celtic culture


alexithymic

en-adj

alexithymic (comparative more alexithymic, superlative most alexithymic)

more alexithymic (comparative)
most alexithymic (superlative)

/əˌlɛksɪˈθaɪmɪk/

From a- + Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “speech”) + θυμός (thumós, “soul”) + -ic.

(anthropology) Lacking in emotion or emotional expression.


sedentarise

en-verb

sedentarise (third-person singular simple present sedentarises, present participle sedentarising, simple past and past participle sedentarised)

sedentarises (present singular third-person)
sedentarising (participle present)
sedentarised (participle past)
sedentarised (past)

(British, anthropology) Alternative spelling of sedentarize


sedentarization

(anthropology) The settling of a nomadic population; sedentism.


sedentarize

sedentarize (third-person singular simple present sedentarizes, present participle sedentarizing, simple past and past participle sedentarized)

sedentarizes (present singular third-person)
sedentarizing (participle present)
sedentarized (participle past)
sedentarized (past)

(US, anthropology) to settle a nomadic population through sedentism


sedentism

(anthropology) a transitioning process that sees a nomadic population being placed into more permanent registrable settlements.


ANT

en-noun

ANT (countable and uncountable, plural ANTs)

actor–network theory
w:actor–network theory

(anthropology, semiotics) Abbreviation of actor–network theory.


craniologico

it-adj

craniologico (feminine craniologica, masculine plural craniologici, feminine plural craniologiche)

craniologica (feminine)
craniologici (masculine plural)
craniologiche (feminine plural)


bilocal

(anthropology) Describing a situation in which a married couple alternate their residence between that of the wife's and husband's group


first contact

en-noun

first contact (usually uncountable, plural first contacts)

(anthropology) The first meeting between people of two previously unknown cultures.


троглодит

ru-noun+

троглоди́т • (troglodít) m anim (genitive троглоди́та, nominative plural троглоди́ты, genitive plural троглоди́тов)

троглоди́т (canonical)
troglodít (romanization)
троглоди́та (genitive)
троглоди́ты (nominative plural)
троглоди́тов (genitive plural)
троглоди́т (nominative singular)
троглоди́ты (nominative plural)
троглоди́та (genitive singular)
троглоди́тов (genitive plural)
троглоди́ту (dative singular)
троглоди́там (dative plural)
троглоди́та (accusative singular)
троглоди́тов (accusative plural)
троглоди́том (instrumental singular)
троглоди́тами (instrumental plural)
троглоди́те (prepositional singular)
троглоди́тах (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs).


Paiute

From Spanish payuchi, payuta, compare Spanish yuta (“Ute”).

(anthropology) Any member of two related groups of North American aboriginal peoples: the Northern Paiute of California, Nevada, and Oregon, and the Southern Paiute of Arizona, southeastern California and Nevada, and Utah.


mobilitas

id-noun

mobilitas (plural mobilitas-mobilitas, first-person possessive mobilitasku, second-person possessive mobilitasmu, third-person possessive mobilitasnya)

mobilitas-mobilitas (plural)
mobilitasku (first-person possessive)
mobilitasmu (possessive second-person)
mobilitasnya (possessive third-person)

(anthropology, sociology) people's ability to move between different social levels or professional occupations.


profanum

Unadapted borrowing from Latin profānum. Doublet of profanacja and profanować.

(anthropology) profanum (the profane world)


autochtoniczny

pl-adj

autochtoniczny (not comparable, derived adverb autochtonicznie)

autochtoniczny (masculine nominative singular)
autochtoniczna (feminine nominative singular)
autochtoniczne (neuter nominative singular)
autochtoniczni (nominative plural virile)
autochtoniczne (nominative plural)
autochtonicznego (genitive masculine singular)
autochtonicznej (feminine genitive singular)
autochtonicznego (genitive neuter singular)
autochtonicznych (genitive plural)
autochtonicznych (genitive plural virile)
autochtonicznemu (dative masculine singular)
autochtonicznej (dative feminine singular)
autochtonicznemu (dative neuter singular)
autochtonicznym (dative plural)
autochtonicznym (dative plural virile)
autochtonicznego (accusative animate masculine singular)
autochtoniczny (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
autochtoniczną (accusative feminine singular)
autochtoniczne (accusative neuter singular)
autochtonicznych (accusative plural virile)
autochtoniczne (accusative plural)
autochtonicznym (instrumental masculine singular)
autochtoniczną (feminine instrumental singular)
autochtonicznym (instrumental neuter singular)
autochtonicznymi (instrumental plural)
autochtonicznymi (instrumental plural virile)
autochtonicznym (locative masculine singular)
autochtonicznej (feminine locative singular)
autochtonicznym (locative neuter singular)
autochtonicznych (locative plural)
autochtonicznych (locative plural virile)


Bajau

Learned borrowing from Indonesian Bajau bajau.

lbor

The Bajaus, or sea gypsies, live in boats, their occupation being fishing.

1905, United States. Bureau of the Census, Census of the Philippine Islands, volume 1, page 565:

The largest tribe is the 60,000-member Bajau. The Bajaus were once sea nomads and pirates.

1969, James W. Gould, The United States and Malaysia, page 30:

The Bajau are a group of seafarers who migrated from the Philippines only a couple hundred years ago. The Bajau on the eastern coast of Sabah carry on their traditional connection to the water, living as sea gypsies and coming to shore only for burials. On the west coast, however, many Bajau have settled on dry land as farmers and cattle raisers.

2011, Daniel White, Ron Emmons, Jennifer Eveland, Jen Lin-Liu, Frommer's Southeast Asia, page 569:

(ethnology) The indigenous people native to Bajau island (part of modern-day Indonesia), these ethnic group nowadays predominantly inhabit the Bajau island and its adjacent regions in Indonesia and also expanded to the southern Philippines.

sea gypsy

member of people in Indonesia and southern Philippines


Bajau

(ethnology) The indigenous people native to the Bajau island (part of the Riau Islands).


seclusion lodge

en-noun

seclusion lodge (plural seclusion lodges)

The huts were seclusion lodges, where we were to live isolated from society.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 30:

The seclusion lodge houses circumcision initiates, keeping them separate from the rest of the community.

1996, Jerry D Moore, Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes, page 140:

The birth lodge, the puberty rite lodge, the menstrual seclusion lodge, as well as the family dwelling built and owned by the woman, show that previously the Plateau-built environment was almost exclusively under women's purview.

2006, Mary C Wright, in Kelm & Townsend, In the Days of our Grandmothers, p. 265

(chiefly anthropology) A traditional dwelling placed apart from a community, tribe etc., for the use of those under ceremonial or taboo restrictions.


Mediteraneo

tl-proper noun

Mediteráneó (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜇᜒᜆᜒᜇᜈᜒᜌᜓ)

Mediteráneó (canonical)
ᜋᜒᜇᜒᜆᜒᜇᜈᜒᜌᜓ (Baybayin)

[mɛ.d̪ɪ.t̪ɛˌɾaː.n̪ɛˈo]

Borrowed from Spanish mediterráneo, from Latin mediterrāneus.


huvudjägare

huvudjägare (indefinite nominative singular)
huvudjägares (genitive indefinite singular)
huvudjägaren (definite nominative singular)
huvudjägarens (definite genitive singular)
huvudjägare (indefinite nominative plural)
huvudjägares (genitive indefinite plural)
huvudjägarna (definite nominative plural)
huvudjägarnas (definite genitive plural)


war dance

There was a greyness in the east by the time we had completed the Navajo war dance on the front lawn.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 20:

(anthropology) A ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory, usually by a tribe.


Cushite

From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).

(anthropology, dated in academic contexts) A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages.

Kuschite

member of one of the peoples of the Horn of Africa


allogène

(anthropology) recently immigrated and still noticeably exhibiting traits or characteristics of their previous nationality


allogène

fr-noun

allogène m or f by sense (plural allogènes)

(anthropology) a person who has settled in a new nation or territory who still noticeably exhibits traits or characteristics of their previous nationality


H. erectus

Semina cum illis H. erecti subidentica.

1883, Mélanges biologiques tirés du Bulletin de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg, volume XI (in Latin), page 167:

The skull base is narrow; the mastoids small; and the side walls of the skull are parallel, as in modern crania, instead of convergent as in the Eastern H. erecti.

1962, Carleton S[tevens] Coon, The Origin of Races (in English), London: Jonathan Cape, […], page 493:

There was, adherents claim, no ethnic interbreeding with Neanderthals or H. erecti either west or east; they were just replaced.

2015, Michael Pitman, A Mutant Ape?: The Origin of Man’s Descent (in English), Merops Press, →ISBN, page 177:

Falsificando innumerevoli siti archeologici nel corso di quasi trent’anni, tal Fujimura era riuscito a dimostrare che il primo popolamento dell’arcipelago fosse avvento già 700 kya, facendo degli H. erecti locali i Giapponesi di allora, e di questi una razza più antica dei Cinesi.

2017, Simone dalla Chiesa, “Il mito del ‘selvaggio balbettante’ e l’origine della poesia giapponese”, in C. Bulfoni, E. Lupano, B. Mottura, editors, Sguardi sull’Asia e altri scritti in onore di Alessandra Cristina Lavagnino (in Italian), Milan: LED, →DOI, →ISBN, page 378:

Most H. erecti could not grasp how to make them.

2021 April, Bob Forrester, “The Missing Dimension: Shamanism in Human Evolution”, in The Digging Stick, volume 38, number 1 (in English), →ISSN, page 2, column 2:

Used, in context, to shorten the name and simplify the pronunciation of a species name with a generic name beginning with H and a specific epithet of erectus.

(anthropology, archaeology) Homo erectus


智人

/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/t͡siː³³ jɐn²¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/t͡siː³³ jɐn²¹/


protoculture

Life in this primitive condition of nature is not, in the words of Hobbes, "nasty, brutish, and short"; it is a world of rules, a world in which physical aggression and sexuality are shaped by a protoculture.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 67:

(physical anthropology) The passing of behaviours from one generation to another among non-human primates. These cultures are very rudimentary, and do not exhibit complex cultural technology.


Jin

Cambridge University Press
Jin
Jin (Chinese surname)
Jin Prefecture (Shaanxi)
Jurchen Jin
Linfen

From the atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 金 (Jīn, literally “gold, golden”). As a surname, legendarily derived from the descendants of Shaohao who took a golden phoenix as their tribal emblem. As an area and town in Shaanxi, named for the placer deposits of gold on the Yue River. As a Jurchen empire and dynastic name, a Chinese calque of Jurchen name of the Ashi River within modern Harbin, preserved in Chinese transcription as 按出虎 (Ànchūhǔ) (Middle Chinese: ʔan-tsyhwit-xu). As a Manchu empire and dynastic name, an early continuation of the former Jurchen name prior to the 1636 proclamation of the Qing.

der

(historical, ethnography, uncommon) Synonym of Jurchen: the Tungusic people who ruled this empire.


matriarca

From Latin māter, mātris (“mother”) + -arca, on the model of patriarca.


Papuasia

(anthropology) Melanesia: New Guinea and neighboring islands to the west and east


craniometry

en-noun

craniometry (usually uncountable, plural craniometries)

physical anthropology
physical anthropology

(especially physical anthropology, medicine) The practice of taking measurements of the skull.


caucasien

fr-adj

caucasien (feminine caucasienne, masculine plural caucasiens, feminine plural caucasiennes)

caucasienne (feminine)
caucasiens (masculine plural)
caucasiennes (feminine plural)

S’il fut intrigué par leur apparence — l’homme était de toute évidence caucasien et la femme une Noire qu’il trouva très grande — il n’en laissa rien paraître.

1998, Jean-Pierre Andrevon, Cinq Anguilles dans une botte d'humains, →ISBN:


godsib

Learned borrowing from Middle English godsib; doublet of gossip; see those entries for more.

lbor

The fireplace also heated water for the godsibs to wash their hands with as they were instructed by the rubric to do before leaving the church.

1920, Courtenay Frederic William Dunn, The Natural History of the Child: A Book for All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Women, and Children, page 233:

[…] the Bumgardners' maid, with Preston and Penelope in tow, was exchanging defamatory gossip with her godsib Ofelia Gomez, Luke Regan's scullion.

1965, Willard Marsh, Week with No Friday:

The Vicosino then went to his godsib and then to the Cornell Peru Project field director for confirmation of […]

1966, Henry F. Dobyns, Paul L. Doughty, Allan R. Holmberg, Cornell Peru Project, Peace Corps Program Impact in the Peruvian Andes: Final Report:

After a man's kin and godsibs, the next allegiance is to his paisanos (fellow countrymen) or […]

1968, Paul L. Doughty, Mary F. Doughty, Huaylas: An Andean District in Search of Progress, page 37:

[…] to members of their own family, intimates (especially their godsibs), and ideally the priest, who usually is too busy to accept all invitations.

1968, Earl W. Morris, Coming Down the Mountain: The Social Worlds of Mayobamba:

[…] where 34 % of testators who mentioned godchildren were homonymous with those godsibs.

2006, David Postles, Joel Thomas Rosenthal, Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales (Western Michigan Univ.)

The most important people in the baptismal party that processed from Newbold Revel to the church porch were the three people who had undertaken to support the baby's introduction into the Christian faith. […] Godsibs, as godparents were called, were chosen with care and took their responsibilities seriously. […] since a baby was almost always given the Christian name of the most important godsib, his name must provide a clue.

2007, Christina Hardyment, Malory: The Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 50:

Holinshed's Chronicle says: 'James Earl of Desmond being suffered and not controlled, during the government of Richard Duke of York his godsib and of Thomas Earl of Kildare his kinsman, did put upon the King's subjects […]'

2013, Edmund Curtis, A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals): From 1086 to 1513, Routledge, →ISBN, page 306:

(chiefly historical or anthropology) One's sibling or kin via a godfamily tie: one's or one's child's godparent, or one's godchild's parent, or one's godparent's child.


antrapaigineas

head

antrapaigineas m (genitive singular antrapaiginis)

antrapaiginis (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
antrapaigineas (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a antrapaiginis (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
antrapaiginis (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-antrapaigineas (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
an antrapaiginis (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an antrapaigineas (definite singular)
don antrapaigineas (definite singular)
antrapaigineas
n-antrapaigineas
hantrapaigineas
t-antrapaigineas

From antrapa- (“anthropo-”) + -gineas (“-genesis, -geny”).


lineality

en-noun

lineality (usually uncountable, plural linealities)

(anthropology, sociology): A reckoning of descent, or way of determining hereditary derivation within human societies.


生番

/ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ fän⁵⁵/

/saːŋ⁵⁵ faːn⁵⁵/

/saŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ fan²⁴/

/t͡sʰĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ huan⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰĩ⁴⁴⁻²² huan⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰẽ⁴⁴⁻³³ huan⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɛ̃⁴⁴⁻²² huan⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰẽ³³⁻²³ hueŋ³³/

/ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ fän⁵⁵/

/saːŋ⁵⁵ faːn⁵⁵/

/saŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ fan²⁴/

/t͡sʰĩ⁴⁴⁻³³ huan⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰĩ⁴⁴⁻²² huan⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰẽ⁴⁴⁻³³ huan⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɛ̃⁴⁴⁻²² huan⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰẽ³³⁻²³ hueŋ³³/

(historical ethnography, derogatory) member of a non-sinicized ethnic minority (as opposed to the sinicized 熟番)


sublineation

sublineation (usually uncountable, plural sublineations)

At that time, before sublineation had become significant for the local group, banishment would have amounted to dismissing a troublesome individual and his wife and children, rather than an entire sublineage consisting of several families ...

1961, Louis C. Faron, Mapuche Social Structure, page 97:

The larger the lineage, as a general rule, the more segmented it becomes. Sublineation, on the other hand, depends exclusively on the size and "antiquity" of the lineage.

1968, Hugo G. Nutini, San Bernardino Contlá, page 148:

In reviewing the Mapuche case, I will examine how regionally standardized ceremonial places and elaborate symbols and objects of social status have developed and spread across the social and physical landscape by means of the exchange of women and the sublineation of kinship units linked through participation in public ritual and competition over access to, and regulation of, prime agricultural land and other key resources.

1992, Frederick W. Lange, Wealth and Hierarchy in the Intermediate Area, →ISBN:

(anthropology) A system of forming kinship groups that subdivide a major lineage into subgroups of more closely related individuals.


encompassment

encompassment (countable and uncountable, plural encompassments)

It sometimes seems as though the anthropological nostalgia for Culture and the academic imperative to defend our space by defending our concept blinds us to the reality that the processes of encompassment neither leave others alone nor make them Western. Rather, encompassment creates a new terrain and terms for the production of sameness and difference, value and meaning.

2001, Edward LiPuma, Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia:

This appears then as a moment of encompassment. The work of the technologist is encompassed by the artist, or the contribution of the facilitator is claimed as part of the creative process (genius, fortune) of the artist themselves.

2007, Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, Sari Wastell, Thinking Through Things:

On the level involving encompassment, moreover, women are simply invisible, thanks precisely to their encompassment.

2010, Robert Parkin, Anne de Sales, Out of the Study and Into the Field:

Baumann (2004, 25–27) identifies yet another way of othering as “encompassment,” which means that a larger group constitutes a hierarchy of dominance over subgroups that are included under the condition that they acquiesce to the larger group.

2020, Robert L. Brawley, Luke: A Social Identity Commentary:

(anthropology, sociology) A hierarchical structure such that when two elements of a whole are recognized as opposites, one of them is considered hierarchically superior, while the other is subordinated to the whole.


tupinamba

Je foule l’Avenida Rio-Branco où s’élevaient jadis les villages tupinamba, [...]

1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter IX, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 89; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:

— I walked up the Avenida Rio-Branco, once a site occupied by Tupinamba villages, …


third gender

third gender (countable and uncountable, plural third genders)

Coordinate term: third sex

(anthropology) A category (a gender), present in societies which recognize three or more genders, which is neither male nor female; in some societies, the category may contain individuals who are intersex or androgynous, while other societies may categorize transgender people into it. (Compare fourth gender.)


monogenist

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(anthropology, historical) One who maintains that all members of the human race belong to a single species.


somatologico

it-adj

somatologico (feminine somatologica, masculine plural somatologici, feminine plural somatologiche)

somatologica (feminine)
somatologici (masculine plural)
somatologiche (feminine plural)


matrimoiety

(anthropology) A descent group coming from the mother's side.


patrimoiety

(anthropology) A descent group coming from the father's side.


cynanthropy

Coined based on Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) and ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man; human”).

(anthropology, folklore) A shape-shifting ability between human and canine forms.


sapienization

(anthropology) The development of Homo sapiens (the modern human being) from earlier species.


ancestor worship

The ancient quarians practiced ancestor worship. Even after abandoning faith for secularism, quarians continued to revere the wisdom of elders.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Religion Codex entry:

(anthropology, religion) Veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors.

vooroueraanbidding

veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors


melanocomous

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μελανοκόμης (melanokómēs), alternative form of μελαγκόμης (melankómēs, “black-haired”) + -ous; from μέλας (mélas, “black”) + κόμη (kómē, “hair”).

bor+

The melanocomous races of men are analogous to animals with black hair

1813, James Cowles Prichard, Researches Into the Physical History of Man:

(dated, anthropology) Dark or black-haired


ابا

Turkish: oba

Azerbaijani: oba

Turkmen: oba

Clauson and Tekin suggest a native Turkic origin, reconstructable to Common Turkic *ōpa. On the other hand, Räsänen, Eren and Nişanyan consider it a borrowing from Middle Mongol ᠣᠪᠤᠭᠠ (obug-a, “pile, mass; boundary”) from ᠣᠪᠤᠶᠢᠬᠤ (obuyiqu, “to pile up”).


ramage

Borrowed from French ramage, from Middle French and Old French ramage, from ram (“branch”) + -age. by surface analysis, rame + -age.

Ramages as such do not enter into alliances, either marital or political. They do, however, provide a basis for the allocation of political authority[…]

1993, Geoffroy Benjamin, “Temiar”, in edited by Paul Hockings, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, volumes V: East and Southeast Asia, New York: G.K. Hall & Co., pages 265–273:

(anthropology) A cognatic descent group.


eitnealárnacht

head

eitnealárnacht f (genitive singular eitnealárnachta)

eitnealárnachta (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
eitnealárnacht (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a eitnealárnacht (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
eitnealárnachta (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an eitnealárnacht (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
na heitnealárnachta (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an eitnealárnacht (definite singular)
don eitnealárnacht (definite singular)
eitnealárnacht
n-eitnealárnacht
heitnealárnacht


eitneagrafaíocht

eitneagrafaíocht f (genitive singular eitneagrafaíochta)

eitneagrafaíochta (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
eitneagrafaíocht (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a eitneagrafaíocht (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
eitneagrafaíochta (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an eitneagrafaíocht (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
na heitneagrafaíochta (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an eitneagrafaíocht (definite singular)
don eitneagrafaíocht (definite singular)
eitneagrafaíocht
n-eitneagrafaíocht
heitneagrafaíocht


eitneolaíocht

eitneolaíocht f (genitive singular eitneolaíochta)

eitneolaíochta (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
eitneolaíocht (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a eitneolaíocht (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
eitneolaíochta (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an eitneolaíocht (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
na heitneolaíochta (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an eitneolaíocht (definite singular)
don eitneolaíocht (definite singular)
eitneolaíocht
n-eitneolaíocht
heitneolaíocht

From eitni- (“ethno-”) + eolaíocht (“science; -ology”).


eitnicheoleolaíocht

head

eitnicheoleolaíocht f (genitive singular eitnicheoleolaíochta)

eitnicheoleolaíochta (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
eitnicheoleolaíocht (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a eitnicheoleolaíocht (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
eitnicheoleolaíochta (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an eitnicheoleolaíocht (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
na heitnicheoleolaíochta (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an eitnicheoleolaíocht (definite singular)
don eitnicheoleolaíocht (definite singular)
eitnicheoleolaíocht
n-eitnicheoleolaíocht
heitnicheoleolaíocht


monogeny

(anthropology, historical) The doctrine that all of the members of the human race have a common origin.


Melanochroi

Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley; see melanochroic.

(anthropology, dated) A division of the human population, consisting of the darker-skinned among the white races.


stem family

(anthropology) A family system in which a couple's firstborn child lives with them in the family home, and that child's spouse moves into the home of said in-laws, so that the younger couple's children are raised in the home of their grandparents. Usually, the younger offspring move out upon marriage. The inheritance, depending on the culture, may or may not be the most favorable to the firstborn.


Abipón

Borrowed from Spanish abipón of American Indian origin.

(ethnography) A member of an extinct people of Argentina and Paraguay.


Abkhas

(ethnography) Alternative form of Abkhaz


Abor

No thatching grass is available, and so all the houses are thatched with a kind of plant called tara by the Abors, which is very like the tokopat used in many parts of Assam, but the lower stem of the tara is excessively thorny.

1886, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, page 316:

(ethnography) A member of a people of northern Assam.


Abri Audit

Borrowed from French Abri Audit (literally “Audit shelter”).

bor

(usually capitalized, anthropology) Of or belonging to the prehistoric culture between the late Mousterian and Aurignacian.


paleoantropoloji

head

paleoantropoloji (definite accusative paleoantropolojiyi, plural paleoantropolojiler)

paleoantropolojiyi (accusative definite)
paleoantropolojiler (plural)
paleoantropoloji (nominative singular)
paleoantropolojiler (nominative plural)
paleoantropolojiyi (accusative definite singular)
paleoantropolojileri (accusative definite plural)
paleoantropolojiye (dative singular)
paleoantropolojilere (dative plural)
paleoantropolojide (locative singular)
paleoantropolojilerde (locative plural)
paleoantropolojiden (ablative singular)
paleoantropolojilerden (ablative plural)
paleoantropolojinin (genitive singular)
paleoantropolojilerin (genitive plural)


Paläanthropologie

de-noun

Paläanthropologie f (genitive Paläanthropologie, no plural)

Paläanthropologie (genitive)
Paläanthropologie (nominative singular)
Paläanthropologie (genitive singular)
Paläanthropologie (dative singular)
Paläanthropologie (accusative singular)

(anthropology) Synonym of Paläoanthropologie


antropoloji

head

antropoloji (definite accusative antropolojiyi, plural antropolojiler)

antropolojiyi (accusative definite)
antropolojiler (plural)
antropoloji (nominative singular)
antropolojiler (nominative plural)
antropolojiyi (accusative definite singular)
antropolojileri (accusative definite plural)
antropolojiye (dative singular)
antropolojilere (dative plural)
antropolojide (locative singular)
antropolojilerde (locative plural)
antropolojiden (ablative singular)
antropolojilerden (ablative plural)
antropolojinin (genitive singular)
antropolojilerin (genitive plural)


Paläoanthropologie

de-noun

Paläoanthropologie f (genitive Paläoanthropologie, no plural)

Paläoanthropologie (genitive)
Paläoanthropologie (nominative singular)
Paläoanthropologie (genitive singular)
Paläoanthropologie (dative singular)
Paläoanthropologie (accusative singular)


kulpër

sq-noun

kulpër f (plural kulpra, definite kulpra, definite plural kulprat)

kulpra (plural)
kulpra (definite)
kulprat (definite plural)

Singularized plural of dialectal kulp (“traveller's joy”).

(ethnography) children’s head garland of clematis worn to celebrate the start of spring


folk illness

(medicine, anthropology) A combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture.


insanımsı

head

insanımsı (definite accusative insanımsıyı, plural insanımsılar)

insanımsıyı (accusative definite)
insanımsılar (plural)
insanımsı (nominative singular)
insanımsılar (nominative plural)
insanımsıyı (accusative definite singular)
insanımsıları (accusative definite plural)
insanımsıya (dative singular)
insanımsılara (dative plural)
insanımsıda (locative singular)
insanımsılarda (locative plural)
insanımsıdan (ablative singular)
insanımsılardan (ablative plural)
insanımsının (genitive singular)
insanımsıların (genitive plural)
insanımsım (first-person nominative singular)
insanımsılarım (first-person nominative singular)
insanımsın (nominative second-person singular)
insanımsıların (nominative second-person singular)
insanımsısı (nominative singular third-person)
insanımsıları (nominative singular third-person)
insanımsımız (first-person nominative plural)
insanımsılarımız (first-person nominative plural)
insanımsınız (nominative plural second-person)
insanımsılarınız (nominative plural second-person)
insanımsıları (nominative plural third-person)
insanımsımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
insanımsılarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
insanımsını (accusative definite second-person singular)
insanımsılarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
insanımsısını (accusative definite singular third-person)
insanımsılarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
insanımsımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
insanımsılarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
insanımsınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
insanımsılarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
insanımsılarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
insanımsıma (dative first-person singular)
insanımsılarıma (dative first-person singular)
insanımsına (dative second-person singular)
insanımsılarına (dative second-person singular)
insanımsısına (dative singular third-person)
insanımsılarına (dative singular third-person)
insanımsımıza (dative first-person plural)
insanımsılarımıza (dative first-person plural)
insanımsınıza (dative plural second-person)
insanımsılarınıza (dative plural second-person)
insanımsılarına (dative plural third-person)
insanımsımda (first-person locative singular)
insanımsılarımda (first-person locative singular)
insanımsında (locative second-person singular)
insanımsılarında (locative second-person singular)
insanımsısında (locative singular third-person)
insanımsılarında (locative singular third-person)
insanımsımızda (first-person locative plural)
insanımsılarımızda (first-person locative plural)
insanımsınızda (locative plural second-person)
insanımsılarınızda (locative plural second-person)
insanımsılarında (locative plural third-person)
insanımsımdan (ablative first-person singular)
insanımsılarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
insanımsından (ablative second-person singular)
insanımsılarından (ablative second-person singular)
insanımsısından (ablative singular third-person)
insanımsılarından (ablative singular third-person)
insanımsımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
insanımsılarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
insanımsınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
insanımsılarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
insanımsılarından (ablative plural third-person)
insanımsımın (first-person genitive singular)
insanımsılarımın (first-person genitive singular)
insanımsının (genitive second-person singular)
insanımsılarının (genitive second-person singular)
insanımsısının (genitive singular third-person)
insanımsılarının (genitive singular third-person)
insanımsımızın (first-person genitive plural)
insanımsılarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
insanımsınızın (genitive plural second-person)
insanımsılarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
insanımsılarının (genitive plural third-person)
insanımsıyım (first-person singular)
insanımsılarım (first-person singular)
insanımsısın (second-person singular)
insanımsılarsın (second-person singular)
insanımsı (singular third-person)
insanımsıdır (singular third-person)
insanımsılar (singular third-person)
insanımsılardır (singular third-person)
insanımsıyız (first-person plural)
insanımsılarız (first-person plural)
insanımsısınız (plural second-person)
insanımsılarsınız (plural second-person)
insanımsılar (plural third-person)
insanımsılardır (plural third-person)


antropologiczny

pl-adj

antropologiczny (not comparable, derived adverb antropologicznie)

antropologiczny (masculine nominative singular)
antropologiczna (feminine nominative singular)
antropologiczne (neuter nominative singular)
antropologiczni (nominative plural virile)
antropologiczne (nominative plural)
antropologicznego (genitive masculine singular)
antropologicznej (feminine genitive singular)
antropologicznego (genitive neuter singular)
antropologicznych (genitive plural)
antropologicznych (genitive plural virile)
antropologicznemu (dative masculine singular)
antropologicznej (dative feminine singular)
antropologicznemu (dative neuter singular)
antropologicznym (dative plural)
antropologicznym (dative plural virile)
antropologicznego (accusative animate masculine singular)
antropologiczny (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
antropologiczną (accusative feminine singular)
antropologiczne (accusative neuter singular)
antropologicznych (accusative plural virile)
antropologiczne (accusative plural)
antropologicznym (instrumental masculine singular)
antropologiczną (feminine instrumental singular)
antropologicznym (instrumental neuter singular)
antropologicznymi (instrumental plural)
antropologicznymi (instrumental plural virile)
antropologicznym (locative masculine singular)
antropologicznej (feminine locative singular)
antropologicznym (locative neuter singular)
antropologicznych (locative plural)
antropologicznych (locative plural virile)

(relational, anthropology) anthropology; anthropological


uxorilocally

(anthropology) In an uxorilocal (matrilocal) manner.


virilocal

Blend of virile + local. From Latin vir+locus.


blondism

Blondism artificially produced in Micronesia and Melanesia as in Polynesia indicates a blond element in the last conquering immigration.

1927, John Macmillan Brown, Peoples & problems of the Pacific, volume 2, page 276:

In the beard latent blondism is likely to come out.

1931, Carleton Stevens Coon, Tribes of the Rif, page 348:

(anthropology) The presence of blond hair and relatively pale skin and eyes in a member of a usually darker race.


guarani

head

guarani (plural guaranikuéra, locative guaranípe, semblative guaranícha)

guaranikuéra (plural)
guaranípe (locative)

Paraguayan Guarani, Eastern Guarani, Southwestern Guarani

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *waɾaniŋ, from Proto-Tupian *aɾaniŋ.
Cognate with Old Tupi gûarinĩ.

inh+

(anthropology) one of the Guarani peoples; the collective of all Guarani peoples

(linguistics) one of the Guarani languages or its ancestor, Old Guarani


evitazione

(ethnology) a kind of ritual taboo wherein personal contact with certain members of a community is forbidden


abusua

(ethnography) A matrilineal exogamous clan among the Ashanti.


malësi

sq-noun

malësí f (plural malësí, definite malësía, definite plural malësítë)

malësí (canonical feminine)
malësí (plural)
malësía (definite)
malësítë (definite plural)
malësi (indefinite nominative singular)
malësia (definite nominative singular)
malësi (accusative indefinite singular)
malësinë (accusative definite singular)
malësie (indefinite singular)
malësisë (definite singular)

From mal. See mal (“mountain”) for more.

(ethnography) name of the homeland of malësor (“highlander”) tribe


Kalimantan

(anthropology) A member of a tribe or ethnic and linguistic group native to Kalimantan island.


Kalimantan

→ English: Kalimantan

→ Dutch: Kalimantan

Unknown
* possibly from Sanskrit काल (kāla, “time”) + मन्थन (manthana, “churning”).
* possibly from Javanese ("diamond river")

compound

(anthropology) a member of a tribe or ethnic and linguistic group native to Kalimantan island


Beothuk

(ethnology) A member of one of the historical aboriginal peoples of Canada.


көмбәҙ

head

көмбәҙ • (kömbəź)

ba-noun

көмбәҙ • (kömbəź)

kömbəź (romanization)
көмбәҙ (absolute singular)
көмбәҙҙәр (absolute plural)
көмбәҙҙең (definite genitive singular)
көмбәҙҙәрҙең (definite genitive plural)
көмбәҙгә (dative singular)
көмбәҙҙәргә (dative plural)
көмбәҙҙе (accusative definite singular)
көмбәҙҙәрҙе (accusative definite plural)
көмбәҙҙә (locative singular)
көмбәҙҙәрҙә (locative plural)
көмбәҙҙән (ablative singular)
көмбәҙҙәрҙән (ablative plural)

ba-decl-noun

көмбәҙҙәрҙең

көмбәҙҙәрҙән

From Persian گنبد (gonbad), گنبذ (gonbaz, “dome, arch, cupola”).
Cognate with Kazakh күмбез (kümbez), Nogai куьмбез (kümbez), Kyrgyz күмбөз (kümböz), Uzbek gumbaz, Turkish kümbet.

(ethnography) convex metal decoration in female Bashkir ethnic costume


نسبی‌گرایی فرهنگی

head

نسبیگرایی فرهنگی • (nesbi-garâyi-ye farhangi)

نسبیگرایی فرهنگی (canonical)
nesbi-garâyi-ye farhangi (romanization)

نسبیگرایی فرهنگی نظریاست که میگوید باورها از فرهنگ تأثیر پذیرد و بهترین راه فهمیدن آنها در بستر فرهنگ است.

Cultural relativism is the view that says beliefs receive influence from culture and the best way to understand them is in the context of the culture.

nesbi-garâyi-ye farhangi nazar-ist ke mi-guyad bâvar-hâ az farhang ta'sir pazirad o behtarin râh-e fahmidan-e ânhâ dar bestar-e farhang ast.

fa:نسبی‌گرایی فرهنگی


caucásico

es-adj

caucásico (feminine caucásica, masculine plural caucásicos, feminine plural caucásicas)

caucásica (feminine)
caucásicos (masculine plural)
caucásicas (feminine plural)

(anthropology) Caucasian (Of a racial classification; pertaining to people originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Western, Central and South Asia)


cyanope

From Ancient Greek κυανῶπις (kuanôpis, “dark-looking”).

uder

On this basis various genotypes may be listed as follows: EEHH - Fast dark, EEHh - Medium dark with a cyanope stage, EeHH - Medium dark with a glaucope state, EdHh - Slow dark with intermediate stage variable.

1946, Reginald Ruggles Gates, Human Genetics, page 95:

The cyanope type (brown eyes, blond hair) and the glaucope type (blue eyes, black hair) probably arose independently as mutations, the glaucope being earlier in the European population, i.e., the mutation to blue eyes probably occurred before the mutation to fair hair.

1953, Alan H. Kelso De Montigny, International Anthropological and Linguistic Review, page 61:

There were too few in the cyanope group of the MacConaill types for comparison to be made.

1955, The Journal of Mental Science - Volume 101, page 541:

(anthropology, genetics, dated) A person with fair hair and brown eyes.


glaucope

From Ancient Greek γλαυκώψ (glaukṓps, “with blue-grey eyes”).

The most numerous in each war period had blue or grey eyes and dark hair (" glaucope ") but the percentage of such types fell from 47 to 40 per cent between the two samples, while those with fair hair and light eyes (" blond ") rose from 16 to 19 per cent.

1957, Eugenics review - Volumes 48-49, pages 112–113:

(anthropology, genetics, dated) A person with dark hair and blue eyes.


Noric

en-adj

Noric (comparative more Noric, superlative most Noric)

more Noric (comparative)
most Noric (superlative)

(anthropology) Of or relating to a racial category proposed by the anthropologist Victor Lebzelter, supposed to be a lighter subtype of the Dinaric, and characterized by tall stature, brachycephaly, nasal convexity, a long face and a broad forehead.


anthroponomic

(anthropology) Relating to anthroponomy.


conehead

(anthropology, archaeology, informal) A person who has undergone cranial modification in order to produce an elongated skull.


ģints

ģints (nominative singular)
ģintis (nominative plural)
ģinti (accusative singular)
ģintis (accusative plural)
ģints (genitive singular)
ģinšu (genitive plural)
ģintij (dative singular)
ģintīm (dative plural)
ģinti (instrumental singular)
ģintīm (instrumental plural)
ģintī (locative singular)
ģintīs (locative plural)
ģints (singular vocative)
ģintis (plural vocative)

Traditionally considered borrowed from Lithuanian gentìs (“family, kin group, clan, tribe; relative”). But the Lithuanian form has en instead of in; in occurs only in some Eastern Lithuanian dialects. Also, in the 17th century, Latvian forms with in are attested in Semigallia (Zemgale), agreeing with the [in] in Old Prussian gyntos (“men, husbands”); it may therefore be that ģints was originally not a borrowing but an old Curonian word which later spread from Western Latvia to Semigallia. Note that older Semigallian dialects sometimes conserved initial ģ (> dz in standard Latvian): cf. place names like Ģintumi or Ģinuļi. If this is the case, then ģints, like Lithuanian gentìs, reflects Proto-Indo-European *ǵen- (< *ǵenh₁-) “to create,” “to give birth” (via an unaltered Proto-Baltic *gint-, where the initial g, instead of ž, results from either the influence of the related stem *gʷem-, whence also dzemdēt “to give birth,” or from conservative dialectal variants).

bor

patriarhālā ģints

ģints iekārta

ģints sabiedrība

familiar society (i.e., composed of families)

mātes ģints

maternal, matriarchal family (where descent goes through the mother's line)

tēvas ģints

paternal, patriarchal family (where descent goes through the father's line)

(history, anthropology) family, kin group, clan (a primitive unit of social organization, based on blood relations and lineage from a common ancestor)


ominazione

From the stem homin- of Latin homō (“man”) + -zione (“-tion”).


bajau

(anthropology) a group of people who lives on boats, inhabit the seawater or strait between the east coast of Sumatra and Kalimantan (known as Riau Islands; specifically the Bajau island), and also in some part of Sulawesi and Flores seawater.


dalublahian

tl-noun

dalublahian (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜓᜊ᜔ᜎᜑᜒᜀᜈ᜔)

ᜇᜎᜓᜊ᜔ᜎᜑᜒᜀᜈ᜔ (Baybayin)