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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences






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






3. Yield per person per unit of land






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






5. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective






6. The comparison of societies to living organisms






7. The total stock of words in a language






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






17. The study of language and its relation to culture






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






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






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






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






22. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them






23. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history






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






25. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork






26. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective






27. 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






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






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






30. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants






31. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand






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






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






34. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context






35. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society






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






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






38. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture






39. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard






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






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






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






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






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






45. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






46. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans






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






48. The process of the mechanization of production






49. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems






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







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