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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans






2. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment






3. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain






4. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






5. Yield per person per unit of land






6. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies






7. The smallest unit of language that has meanings






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. The comparison of societies to living organisms






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






17. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors






18. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture






19. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language






20. A change in the biological structure of lifeways of an individual or population by which it becomes better fitted to survive and reproduce in its environment






21. The total stock of words in a language






22. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing






23. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices






24. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves






25. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)






26. A theoretical position in anthropology that held that cultures could best be understood by examining the patterns of child rearing and considering their effect on adult lives and social institutions






27. 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






28. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings






29. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze






30. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand






31. The system of language that relates words to meanings






32. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control






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






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






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






36. 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






37. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent






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






39. A change in the biological structure of lifeways of an individual or population by which it becomes better fitted to survive and reproduce in its environment






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






41. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people






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






43. A focus that examines the ways in which people in different cultures understand health and sicknesses as well as the ways they attempt to cure disease






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






45. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture






46. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society






47. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network






48. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages






49. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language






50. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society