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Cultural Anthropology
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1. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Organic Analogy
Primatology
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Swidden Cultivation
2. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Foraging
Productivity Linguistics
Ethnography
Foraging
3. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Society
Generalized Reciprocity
Economics
Displacement
4. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Leveling Mechanism
Ethnography
Agriculture
Artifacts
5. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Allophones
Firm
Collaborative Ethnography
Cultural Relativism
6. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Cultural Relativism
Plasticity
Allophones
Ethnoscape
7. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Values
Ecological Functionalism
Semantics
Racism
8. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Etic
Anthropological Theory
Adaptation
Subculture
9. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Human Paleontology
Ethnoscience
Haptics
Pastoralism
10. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Culture
Archeology
Racism
Cargo System
11. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Symbol
Informant
Morpheme
12. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Isolating Language
Society
Semantics
Nomadic Pastoralism
13. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Horticulture
Swidden Cultivation
Agglutinating Language
Historical Particularism
14. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Syntax
Displacement
Horticulture
Semantics
15. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Values
Culture
Cognitive Anthropology
Nomadic Pastoralism
16. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Displacement
Universal Grammar
Conventionality
Culture
17. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Balanced Reciprocity
Forensic Anthropology
Ethnography
Transhumant Pastoralism
18. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Negative Reciprocity
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Functionalism
Industrialism
19. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Core Vocabulary
Syntax
Isolating Language
Functionalism
20. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Values
Ethnoscape
Productivity Linguistics
Dominant Culture
21. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Cultural Anthropology
Cargo System
Dominant Culture
Artifacts
22. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Economic System
Racism
Plasticity
Agriculture
23. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Anthropological Theory
Swidden Cultivation
Enculturation
Negative Reciprocity
24. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Isolating Language
Cultural Ecology
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Diffusion
25. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Ethnography
Society
Nomadic Pastoralism
Code Switching
26. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Phone
Forensic Anthropology
Innovation
Transhumant Pastoralism
27. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Comparative Linguistics
Ecological Functionalism
Holism
Capital
28. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Morpheme
Cultural Anthropology
Human Paleontology
Lexicon
29. 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
Enculturation
Ethnomedicine
Lexicon
Postmodernism
30. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Applied Anthropology
Productive Resources
Chronemics
Negative Reciprocity
31. Yield per person per unit of land
Ethnology
Cultural Relativism
Applied Anthropology
Productivity
32. 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
Cognitive Anthropology
Ecological Functionalism
Household
Culture
33. Social honor or respect
Market Exchange
Plasticity
Prestige
Conventionality
34. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Innovation
Society
Economics
Population Density
35. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Etic
Human Paleontology
Dominant Culture
Code Switching
36. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Economic System
Archeology
Efficiency
Industrialism
37. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Allophones
Symbol
Syntax
Reciprocity
38. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Society
Morphology
Applied Anthropology
Population Density
39. The process of the mechanization of production
Industrialism
Emic
Chronemics
Agriculture
40. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Cultural Ecology
Morphology
Call System
Productive Resources
41. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Agglutinating Language
Etic
Prestige
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
42. Yield per person per unit of land
Racism
Productivity
Core Vocabulary
Archeology
43. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Cultural Ecology
Proxemics
Diffusion
44. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Phoneme
Core Vocabulary
Racism
Swidden Cultivation
45. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Transhumant Pastoralism
Potlatch
Culture Shock
Population Density
46. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Economic System
Division of Labor
Symbolic Anthropology
Semantics
47. 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
Archeology
Forensic Anthropology
Ethnocentrism
Redistribution
48. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Adaptation
Universal Grammar
Cultural Anthropology
Efficiency
49. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Nomadic Pastoralism
Historical Particularism
Market Exchange
Artifacts
50. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Transhumant Pastoralism
Ethnocentrism
Productive Resources
Historical Particularism