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| The borrowing or migration of a cultural practice or idea from one social group to another. |
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| Taking the participant's perspective, the insider's or cultural participant's view; highlighting that which is significant to the participants in their own terms |
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| The selective destruction of newborn females. |
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| Taking the comparativist's perspective in observing or describing a culture; highlighting that which is interesting from a cross-cultural perspective and discussing it in a developed cross-cultural vocabulary. |
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| The cultural preference that a group of brothers marry one woman. |
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| repeatedly visiting a society and comparing the resulting ethnographic "snapshots" to reveal trends, losses, and gains in the people's practices and ideas. |
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| Displaying possessions as a method of announcing and acquiring social status |
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| Describing a social organization in which males control the public sphere of life and often also have legal preference in the private spheres |
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| The cultural practice permitting a woman to have more than one husband at a time |
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| Rituals featuring inversions of the culturally normal and proper |
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