A specific activity or task settled upon to achieve the economic, political, and social goals of a development policy. Such projects often include transportation, energy (especially hydro-electric), a [..]

The marriage practice in which a man marries two or more sisters.

The overt killing or neglect until death of female babies. It may also take the form of preferential abortion.

The residence practice in which married people start their own house­hold apart from their parents’ or families’ households.

The alleged common personality characteristics of an entire society or country; especially applied to modern societies or nation-states.

The earliest known stone tool technology, associated with Homo habilis

An extinct human species that lived from over 2 million years ago until less than 2 million years ago. They are also known as the first stone toolmakers.

The environmental remains from past human social contexts, including wood, seeds, pollen, animal bones, and shells.

The kinship practice of reckoning one’s membership in kinship-based corporate groups through two lines of descent, ordinarily the mother’s and the father’s.

The theory that explains the ongoing poverty and low standard of living in Third World states as the effect of external arrangements and relationships, specifically the global economic and political p [..]