Glossary of Ethnographic Terms

The definitions linked to this list are designed to help you in reading and interpreting some of the ethnographic readings in courses in anthropology and related fields. Terms underlined in definitions have separate entries of their own. You may find it useful to read the note on kintype first.

Click here for a similar page of terms used in the Prehistory portion of MMW-1 (Fall, 2007).

Some terms have warranted slightly longer texts, which I have called "More About" texts and which are listed on a separate page called Expansions, Definitions, and Rants