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Cultural Anthropology
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1. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Society
Haptics
Postmodernism
Racism
2. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Ethnology
Globalization
Cultural Anthropology
3. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Allophones
Proxemics
Norms
Economic System
4. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Organic Analogy
Productivity
Adaptation
Cargo System
5. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Efficiency
Subculture
Dominant Culture
Comparative Linguistics
6. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Diffusion
Great Vowel Shift
Economic System
Nomadic Pastoralism
7. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Horticulture
Norms
Lexicon
Ethnoscience
8. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Sociolinguistics
Potlatch
Cultural Anthropology
Physical/Biological Anthropology
9. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Call System
Conventionality
Semantics
Proxemics
10. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Historical Particularism
Symbol
Minimal Pair
Industrialism
11. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Ethnoscience
Ethnomedicine
Norms
Innovation
12. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Capital
Sociolinguistics
Morpheme
Human Paleontology
13. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Etic
Norms
Phone
Culture Shock
14. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze
Subculture
Kinesics
Negative Reciprocity
Ecological Functionalism
15. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Household
Phone
Balanced Reciprocity
Archeology
16. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Generalized Reciprocity
Great Vowel Shift
Productivity
Racism
17. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Proxemics
Code Switching
Holism
Peasants
18. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Horticulture
Values
Dominant Culture
Household
19. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Applied Anthropology
Capitalism
Morpheme
Leveling Mechanism
20. Judging other cultures from the perspective of ones own culture; the notion that ones own culture is more beautiful - rational - and nearer to perfection than any other
Nomadic Pastoralism
Industrialism
Ethnocentrism
Culture
21. 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
Phonology
Functionalism
Phone
Archeology
22. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Transhumant Pastoralism
Diffusion
Reciprocity
Ethnocentrism
23. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Innovation
Economic System
Market Exchange
Transhumant Pastoralism
24. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Subculture
Interpretive Anthropology
Minimal Pair
Proxemics
25. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Efficiency
Morphology
Ethnobotany
Chronemics
26. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Norms
Primatology
Capitalism
Symbol
27. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Interpretive Anthropology
Nomadic Pastoralism
Human Relations Area Files
Historical Particularism
28. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Human Relations Area Files
Reciprocity
Norms
Division of Labor
29. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Ethnobotany
Core Vocabulary
Haptics
Peasants
30. 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
Sociolinguistics
Chronemics
Culture and Personality
Collaborative Ethnography
31. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Plasticity
Potlatch
Organic Analogy
Historical Particularism
32. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Ethnology
Anthropological Theory
Negative Reciprocity
Allophones
33. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Etic
Productivity Linguistics
Household
Physical/Biological Anthropology
34. Judging other cultures from the perspective of ones own culture; the notion that ones own culture is more beautiful - rational - and nearer to perfection than any other
Collaborative Ethnography
Leveling Mechanism
Primatology
Ethnocentrism
35. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Semantics
Phoneme
Symbolic Anthropology
Enculturation
36. The study of language and its relation to culture
Core Vocabulary
Anthropological Linguistics
Organic Analogy
Symbolic Anthropology
37. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Conventionality
Firm
Core Vocabulary
Anthropological Linguistics
38. The sound system of a language
Collaborative Ethnography
Pastoralism
Phonology
Ethnocentrism
39. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Ethnomedicine
Horticulture
Allophones
Globalization
40. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Displacement
Call System
Ethnography
Norms
41. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Comparative Linguistics
Morphology
Peasants
Negative Reciprocity
42. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Horticulture
Transhumant Pastoralism
Human Relations Area Files
Globalization
43. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Cognitive Anthropology
Cultural Ecology
Redistribution
Phoneme
44. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Participant Observation
Minimal Pair
Holism
Reciprocity
45. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Firm
Emic
Anthropological Linguistics
Core Vocabulary
46. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Postmodernism
Peasants
Cultural Relativism
Enculturation
47. The analysis and study of touch
Minimal Pair
Norms
Innovation
Haptics
48. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Ethnobotany
Sociolinguistics
Emic
Diffusion
49. 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
Morphology
Great Vowel Shift
Adaptation
Human Paleontology
50. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Cultural Relativism
Horticulture
Enculturation
Agriculture