The practice of treating male children more favourably than female children, resulting in more female deaths.

Unilineal kinship systems reckoned through the male line.

The construction of literary plots, characteristic of some postmodern writing.

Swazi name for the first-fruits ceremonies analyzed by Max Gluckman as rituals of rebellion.

According to Max Weber, the ethical demand of Calvinist Protestantism that Christians not retreat from the world in order to live piously.

According to certain psychological anthropologists, the dominant personality of a nation.

The phase of human development transitioning from childhood into adulthood, studied by Margaret Mead.

A cybernetic model for culture used in the New Archaeology.

The theoretical orientation of Franz Boas and many of his students who focused on the particular histories of particular cultures.

A formerly common, unflattering label for Native people that, according to Bronislaw Malinowski, has been superseded by more respectful terms based on understanding achieved through ethnographic fieldwork.