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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






2. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families






3. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages






4. The study of the ways in which the choices people make combine to determine how their society uses its resources to produce and distribute goods and resources






5. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena






6. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate






7. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences






8. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding






9. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world






10. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush






11. Yield per person per unit of land






12. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world






13. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit






14. Yield per person per unit of land






15. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language






16. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another






17. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group






18. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures






19. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available






20. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms






21. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives






22. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members






23. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages






24. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms






25. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture






26. Social honor or respect






27. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures






28. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society






29. 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






30. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit






31. The system of language that relates words to meanings






32. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them






33. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful






34. 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






35. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






36. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited






37. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate






38. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures






39. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture






40. 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






41. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture






42. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group






43. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit






44. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth






45. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals






46. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture






47. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts






48. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications






49. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture






50. A mutual give and take among people of equal status







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