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1. alloparent, n. View full entry 1975
...An adult animal or person involved in parent-like care of an individual which is not his or her offspring....
2. ambilineal, adj. View full entry 1950
...Designating or pertaining to a kinship system in which an individual may choose to claim membership of either the father's or the mother's lineage group, but not both....
3. ambilocal, adj. View full entry 1956
...Designating or pertaining to a system of residence after marriage in which a couple may choose to live in either the husband's or the wife's home or community....
4. anthropologize, v. View full entry 1939
...trans. To explain, treat, or study anthropologically....
5. apotropaism, n. View full entry 1913
...The use of magic or ritual to avert evil influences or bad luck. Also: a magic charm or incantation used for such purposes....
6. avunculate, n. View full entry 1920
...The special relationship existing in some societies between a maternal uncle and his sister's son; maternal uncles regarded as a collective body....
7. behavioural | behavioral, adj. View full entry a1927
...Concerned with, or forming part of, behaviour....
8. biotypology, n. View full entry 1927
...The classification of human beings by body type or other morphological, physiological, or psychological characteristics....
9. clientelism, n. View full entry 1913
...A social or administrative system which depends upon relationships of patronage, favouritism, and self-interested exchange; a political culture which emphasizes or exploits such relationships; the practice of such relations....
10. clientelistic, adj. View full entry 1961
...Characterized by, employing, or arising from clientelism....
11. cliometrics, n. View full entry 1960
...With sing. concord. A technique for the interpretation of economic history, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale numerical data from population censuses, parish registers, and similar sources....
12. contextualize, v. View full entry 1934
...trans. To place in, or treat as part of, a context; spec. to study (phonemes, words, etc.) in contexts....
13. co-sleep, v. View full entry 1966
...intr. To sleep in the same bed or room as a member of one's family of another generation (usually used of a parent and child). Freq. with with....
14. co-sleeping, n. View full entry 1966
...The practice of sleeping in the same bed or room as a member of one's family of another generation (usually used of a parent and child)....
15. culturalism, n. View full entry 1919
...A culturalist viewpoint or set of beliefs; (Social Sciences) a theoretical approach emphasizing the significance of culture, esp. in determining individual behaviour and the way in which society functions (cf....
16. culturgen, n. View full entry 1980
...In the terminology of C. J. Lumsden and E. O. Wilson: an element of behaviour or cultural artefact whose repetition or reproduction is transmissible from one generation to another and may be...
17. culturology, n. View full entry 1920
...The science or study of culture or a culture....
18. decontextualize, v. View full entry 1977
...trans. To study or treat (something) in isolation from its context, to take out of context....
19. demoˈgraphical, adj. View full entry 1902
...= demographic...
20. Durkheimian, adj. and n. View full entry 1915
...Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Émile Durkheim or his sociological theories....
