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Cultural Anthropology
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1. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society
Historical Particularism
Displacement
Holism
Foraging
2. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Nomadic Pastoralism
Economic System
Society
Isolating Language
3. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Core Vocabulary
Market Exchange
Redistribution
Economics
4. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Displacement
Informant
Forensic Anthropology
Globalization
5. The sound system of a language
Values
Sociolinguistics
Ethnoscape
Phonology
6. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Potlatch
Division of Labor
Pastoralism
Lexicon
7. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Symbolic Anthropology
Ethnoscape
Swidden Cultivation
Comparative Linguistics
8. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Nomadic Pastoralism
Allophones
Symbol
Plasticity
9. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Efficiency
Forensic Anthropology
Negative Reciprocity
Applied Anthropology
10. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze
Allophones
Cultural Anthropology
Norms
Kinesics
11. Social honor or respect
Prestige
Household
Lexicon
Conventionality
12. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Racism
Human Relations Area Files
Chronemics
Semantics
13. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnology
Globalization
Informant
14. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Kinesics
Archeology
Adaptation
Cognitive Anthropology
15. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Haptics
Glottochronogy
Universal Grammar
Etic
16. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Population Density
Conventionality
Balanced Reciprocity
Productive Resources
17. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Symbol
Productive Resources
Industrialism
Allophones
18. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Culture Shock
Negative Reciprocity
Culture and Personality
Diffusion
19. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Call System
Isolating Language
Pastoralism
Core Vocabulary
20. Exchange in which goods are collected from or contributed by members of a group and then given out to the group in a new pattern
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Reciprocity
Redistribution
Culture Shock
21. 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
Capitalism
Firm
Historical Particularism
Culture and Personality
22. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Potlatch
Population Density
Productive Resources
Isolating Language
23. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Morpheme
Globalization
Universal Grammar
Syntax
24. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Division of Labor
Horticulture
Prestige
Anthropological Theory
25. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Universal Grammar
Haptics
Ecological Functionalism
Collaborative Ethnography
26. 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
Human Relations Area Files
Adaptation
Postmodernism
Comparative Linguistics
27. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Comparative Linguistics
Productivity
Household
Phone
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
Conventionality
Anthropological Theory
Prestige
Human Paleontology
29. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Participant Observation
Primatology
Forensic Anthropology
Informant
30. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Morphology
Generalized Reciprocity
Human Relations Area Files
Culture Shock
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
Cultural Ecology
Interpretive Anthropology
Anthropological Linguistics
Market Exchange
32. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Culture Shock
Artifacts
Nomadic Pastoralism
Great Vowel Shift
33. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Postmodernism
Etic
Subsistence Strategies
Organic Analogy
34. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Plasticity
Globalization
Plasticity
Agglutinating Language
35. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Ethnoscape
Conventionality
Enculturation
Economic System
36. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Subculture
Plasticity
Cultural Ecology
Productivity
37. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Minimal Pair
Foraging
Allophones
Agglutinating Language
38. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Cultural Relativism
Transhumant Pastoralism
Ethnoscape
Minimal Pair
39. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Chronemics
Efficiency
Emic
Cultural Ecology
40. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Racism
Prestige
Ethnoscience
Informant
41. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Anthropological Linguistics
Capital
Firm
Racism
42. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Collaborative Ethnography
Primatology
Proxemics
Racism
43. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Syntax
Globalization
Racism
Sociolinguistics
44. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Values
Population Density
Household
Kinesics
45. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Market Exchange
Nomadic Pastoralism
Productivity
Dominant Culture
46. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Anthropological Linguistics
Historical Particularism
Globalization
Ecological Functionalism
47. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Productivity Linguistics
Symbol
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Nomadic Pastoralism
48. Exchange in which goods are collected from or contributed by members of a group and then given out to the group in a new pattern
Redistribution
Core Vocabulary
Division of Labor
Symbolic Anthropology
49. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Conventionality
Kinesics
Ethnomedicine
Transhumant Pastoralism
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
Market Exchange
Glottochronogy
Culture Shock