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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages






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






3. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society






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






5. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space






6. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present






7. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information






8. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present






9. 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






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






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






12. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods






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






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






15. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment






16. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture






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






18. 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






19. The study of language and its relation to culture






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






21. The smallest unit of language that has meanings






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






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






24. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






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






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






27. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease






28. 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






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






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






31. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600






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






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






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






35. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains






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






37. 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






38. The analysis and study of touch






39. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods






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






41. The study of language and its relation to culture






42. Yield per person per unit of land






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






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






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






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






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






48. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society






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






50. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society