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Anthropology, Cultural MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


MeSH Heading
Anthropology, Cultural
Tree Number(s)
I01.076.201
Unique ID
D000884
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000884
Annotation
IM as the discipline (education, history, etc) only; NIM with no qualifiers as a coordinate
Scope Note
Study of social phenomena which characterize the learned, shared, and transmitted social activities of particular ethnic groups with focus on the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability.
Entry Term(s)
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnography
Material Culture
Previous Indexing
Anthropology (1966-1967)
Australoid Race (1966-1967)
Blacks (1966-1967)
Caucasoid Race (1966-1967)
Ethnology (1966-1967)
Ethnopsychology (1966-1967)
Mongoloid Race (1966-1967)
See Also
Ethnopsychology
Qualitative Research
Public MeSH Note
68
History Note
68
Date Established
1968/01/01
Date of Entry
1999/01/01
Revision Date
2018/10/11
Anthropology, Cultural Preferred
Ethnography Narrower
Material Culture Narrower
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