culture area

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Culture areas of the Indigenous peoples of North America

Europe: culture areas

Carolus Linnaeus

Vadstena Bracteate

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Also Known As	cultural area • culture province • ethno-geographic area

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Culture areas of the Indigenous peoples of North America

Europe: culture areas

Carolus Linnaeus

Vadstena Bracteate

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desi cultural geography ethnography Kulturkreis region age-area hypothesis culture social change city social structure town village dimensions of cultural variability social equilibrium time zone education political system

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Clark Wissler

Clark Wissler

American anthropologist