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Cultural Anthropology
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1. A set of propositions about which aspects of culture are critical - how they should be studied - and what the goal of studying them should be
Displacement
Transhumant Pastoralism
Division of Labor
Anthropological Theory
2. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Productive Resources
Syntax
Productivity Linguistics
Racism
3. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Prestige
Enculturation
Historical Particularism
Glottochronogy
4. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Ethnomedicine
Lexicon
Allophones
Proxemics
5. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Plasticity
Etic
Society
Foraging
6. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Dominant Culture
Market Exchange
Human Paleontology
Archeology
7. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Phoneme
Ethnobotany
Proxemics
Racism
8. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Transhumant Pastoralism
Industrialism
Forensic Anthropology
Phone
9. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Potlatch
Ethnocentrism
Redistribution
Syntax
10. The process of the mechanization of production
Code Switching
Isolating Language
Productivity
Industrialism
11. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Swidden Cultivation
Kinesics
Ecological Functionalism
Primatology
12. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Society
Plasticity
Universal Grammar
Conventionality
13. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Symbol
Historical Particularism
Comparative Linguistics
Ethnomedicine
14. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Generalized Reciprocity
Call System
Ecological Functionalism
Subsistence Strategies
15. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Potlatch
Ethnography
Culture and Personality
Phone
16. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Code Switching
Negative Reciprocity
Globalization
Productive Resources
17. Judging other cultures from the perspective of ones own culture; the notion that ones own culture is more beautiful - rational - and nearer to perfection than any other
Peasants
Informant
Balanced Reciprocity
Ethnocentrism
18. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Minimal Pair
Core Vocabulary
Phone
Horticulture
19. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Anthropological Theory
Diffusion
Displacement
Ethnology
20. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Ecological Functionalism
Household
Diffusion
Transhumant Pastoralism
21. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Chronemics
Capital
Core Vocabulary
Culture and Personality
22. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Dominant Culture
Cognitive Anthropology
Applied Anthropology
Human Paleontology
23. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Morphology
Firm
Racism
Subsistence Strategies
24. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Division of Labor
Cognitive Anthropology
Phone
Morpheme
25. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Cognitive Anthropology
Economics
Etic
Glottochronogy
26. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Peasants
Ethnobotany
Prestige
27. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Displacement
Values
Efficiency
Morpheme
28. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Collaborative Ethnography
Balanced Reciprocity
Morpheme
Symbol
29. Exchange in which goods are collected from or contributed by members of a group and then given out to the group in a new pattern
Redistribution
Kinesics
Core Vocabulary
Generalized Reciprocity
30. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Subsistence Strategies
Culture and Personality
Firm
Culture and Personality
31. Focuses on identifying general laws that identify different elements of society - show how they relate to each other - and demonstrate their role in maintaining social order
Morphology
Industrialism
Functionalism
Ethnoscape
32. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Foraging
Society
Redistribution
Call System
33. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Historical Particularism
Plasticity
Diffusion
Human Paleontology
34. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Values
Historical Particularism
Archeology
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
35. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Kinesics
Semantics
Potlatch
Conventionality
36. A group of people that depend on one another for survival or well-being as well as the relationships among such people - including their status and roles
Nomadic Pastoralism
Society
Adaptation
Applied Anthropology
37. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Organic Analogy
Plasticity
Generalized Reciprocity
Anthropological Theory
38. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Symbolic Anthropology
Ecological Functionalism
Allophones
Dominant Culture
39. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Capital
Call System
Cultural Anthropology
Archeology
40. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Minimal Pair
Cargo System
Firm
Postmodernism
41. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Household
Economic System
Ethnoscape
Great Vowel Shift
42. The process of the mechanization of production
Industrialism
Comparative Linguistics
Organic Analogy
Symbol
43. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Glottochronogy
Ethnography
Etic
44. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Capital
Call System
Symbolic Anthropology
Morphology
45. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Emic
Artifacts
Subculture
Ethnography
46. Social honor or respect
Dominant Culture
Artifacts
Morpheme
Prestige
47. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Redistribution
Reciprocity
Chronemics
Etic
48. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Innovation
Division of Labor
Conventionality
Morpheme
49. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Phoneme
Participant Observation
Symbolic Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
50. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Collaborative Ethnography
Redistribution
Economics
Proxemics