Anthropology

Articles about humans, cultures and human development.

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Maasai

Maasai: pastoralist people of Kenya and northern Tanzania

Macedonians

Macedonians (South Slavic ethnic group)

Malay race

Malay race: historical concept, origins, and modern perspectives

Malayali

Malayali people: language, culture, history and diaspora

Malays

Malays: an Austronesian people of Maritime Southeast Asia

Maliar

Maliar (agrarian community of Pakistan)

Man

Man

Man (adult human male)

An overview of the term 'man' as an adult male human, covering biology, development, social roles, terminology, historical context, and related movements and distinctions.

Man's Place in Nature

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature — Huxley's 1863 study

Manchu language

Manchu language: history, structure, and contemporary situation

Manchu people

Mandé people

Mandé people: culture, history, and regional significance

Māori

Māori people

Māori people: Indigenous people of New Zealand

Mapudungun

Maroon (people)

Maroon (people): communities of escaped enslaved Africans in the Americas

Matricide

Matricide: causes, contexts, and social responses

Matrilineality

Matrilineality

Matrilineality: descent through the female line and its social roles

Matrilineality is a system of descent and kinship tracing ancestry and group membership through the mother’s line, shaping inheritance, residence, identity and social organization

Maya people

Mediterranean race

Mekan clan

Mekan (Maken) — Jat-origin clan of central Punjab

Ménage à trois

Menarche

Meskwaki

Mesolithic

Mesolithic — the Middle Stone Age transition between Paleolithic and Neolithic

Mestizo

Métis people

Métis people

Mexican Americans

Mexican Americans: history, culture, distribution, and identity

Mexican Canadians

Mi'kmaq

Mi'kmaq people

Miani (Pashtun tribe)

Middle age

Middle age: definitions, features, and social significance

Middle Angles

Migrant worker

Misanthropy

Misanthropy

Misanthropy: distrust or dislike of humanity — meanings and context

An overview of misanthropy: definitions, psychological and cultural forms, historical references, typical causes and social effects, and distinctions from related concepts.

Miscegenation

Miscegenation: history, meaning, and modern perspectives

Mitochondrial Eve

Mixe-Zoque languages

Mixed race

Mixed race (multiracial identity)

Mizrahi Jews

Mizrahi Jews (Jews of the Middle East and North Africa)

Modesty

Modesty (social behavior and cultural norms)

Moghol people

Moghol people: history, language, and contemporary situation

Mohican

Mohican (Mahican): Indigenous people of the Hudson River Valley

Mongolic languages

Mongoloid (race)

Mongols

Mongols: peoples, history, and cultural legacy

Mopan people

Mopan people: Maya community of Belize and Guatemala

Mossi

Mossi people

Mulatto

Mulatto: term, history, usage and contemporary perspectives