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Cultural Anthropology
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1. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Isolating Language
Cultural Relativism
Foraging
Ethnocentrism
2. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Horticulture
Code Switching
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Great Vowel Shift
3. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Peasants
Division of Labor
Haptics
Ethnography
4. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Productivity Linguistics
Collaborative Ethnography
Racism
Ecological Functionalism
5. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Anthropological Linguistics
Balanced Reciprocity
Morpheme
Population Density
6. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Leveling Mechanism
Great Vowel Shift
Cargo System
Chronemics
7. The sound system of a language
Values
Ethnocentrism
Phonology
Values
8. Social honor or respect
Anthropological Theory
Cultural Anthropology
Plasticity
Prestige
9. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Potlatch
Lexicon
Peasants
Nomadic Pastoralism
10. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Informant
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Human Relations Area Files
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
11. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Syntax
Chronemics
Balanced Reciprocity
Agglutinating Language
12. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Human Paleontology
Economic System
Capitalism
Physical/Biological Anthropology
13. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Innovation
Enculturation
Swidden Cultivation
Informant
14. The study of language and its relation to culture
Anthropological Linguistics
Minimal Pair
Balanced Reciprocity
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
15. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Plasticity
Lexicon
Archeology
Etic
16. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Haptics
Etic
Transhumant Pastoralism
Emic
17. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Efficiency
Redistribution
Horticulture
Isolating Language
18. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Human Paleontology
Firm
Proxemics
Market Exchange
19. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Functionalism
Organic Analogy
Isolating Language
Etic
20. 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
Society
Division of Labor
Isolating Language
Participant Observation
21. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Minimal Pair
Participant Observation
Cultural Anthropology
Artifacts
22. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Agglutinating Language
Morpheme
Innovation
Comparative Linguistics
23. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Potlatch
Firm
Archeology
Kinesics
24. 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
Symbol
Syntax
Productivity
Anthropological Theory
25. 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
Economics
Archeology
Anthropological Theory
Forensic Anthropology
26. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Economic System
Firm
Holism
Agriculture
27. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Redistribution
Participant Observation
Market Exchange
Etic
28. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Capitalism
Division of Labor
Syntax
Redistribution
29. 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
Emic
Anthropological Theory
Phone
Division of Labor
30. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Horticulture
Code Switching
Racism
Horticulture
31. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Lexicon
Norms
Diffusion
32. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Call System
Productive Resources
Norms
Etic
33. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Artifacts
Culture
Informant
Human Relations Area Files
34. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Proxemics
Economics
Values
Productive Resources
35. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Horticulture
Phone
Primatology
Ethnoscience
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
Archeology
Society
Economic System
37. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Minimal Pair
Ethnoscience
Proxemics
Swidden Cultivation
38. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Functionalism
Capital
Sociolinguistics
Enculturation
39. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Collaborative Ethnography
Enculturation
Anthropological Linguistics
Agriculture
40. A system of creating words from sounds
Morphology
Minimal Pair
Ethnobotany
Physical/Biological Anthropology
41. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Nomadic Pastoralism
Cultural Ecology
Glottochronogy
Efficiency
42. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Applied Anthropology
Historical Particularism
Chronemics
Ethnoscape
43. 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
Adaptation
Ethnography
Subculture
Pastoralism
44. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Glottochronogy
Anthropological Theory
Forensic Anthropology
Ethnoscape
45. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Market Exchange
Kinesics
Prestige
Primatology
46. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Swidden Cultivation
Productive Resources
Agriculture
Ethnomedicine
47. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Enculturation
Redistribution
Capital
48. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Innovation
Globalization
Informant
Archeology
49. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Comparative Linguistics
Balanced Reciprocity
Agglutinating Language
Prestige
50. The learned behaviors and symbols that allow people to live in groups; the primary means by which humans adapt to their environment; the ways of life characteristic of a particular human society
Culture
Ethnoscape
Organic Analogy
Globalization