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2 anthropology words and examples

#1 cultural universals cultural traits that are shared by all of humanity collectively.  Examples of such general traits are communicating with a verbal language, using age and gender to classify people, and raising children in some sort of family setting.  No matter where people live in the world, they share these universal cultural traits.  However, different cultures have developed their own specific ways of carrying out or expressing these general traits. Credit to the Anthropology terms google doc provided by Mr.Roddy. Having a way to communicate is a cultural universal in this world, mutches like having a community and culture. #2 diffusion  the movement of cultural traits and ideas from one society or ethnic group to another.  While the form of a trait may be transmitted to another society, the original meaning may not.  For instance, McDonald's hamburgers are thought of as a cheap, quick meal in North America, but they are generally considered to ...
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Ethnographer in a Wolf pack

     The day I walk into the woods with steaks and equipment I knew this was going to end in disaster or in a massive breakthrough. Knowing that the last guy was eaten alive, I wasn't sure I wanted to try this. I walked till I came across a pack of wolves in a clearing, realizing what was happening too late, three wolves block the entrance to the clearing, eyeing me with their hungry intelligent eyes. The alpha, or so I thought, stepped toward me in the loose circle of the others. I slowly took my back and took out the food, laying it at the end of my shovel, and sooting it over to the leader wolf, who I knew was the leader, due to the fact that all the others were watching him for instruction, and uneasily looking at the steak on the shovel. The wolf bent over and sniffed the meat, seemed to contemplate eating it, looked back up at me, and took a nibble. he waited, tasting the meat, then swiped the rest up so fast I wasn't sure what happened. I slowly go up the creature ...
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