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Cultural Anthropology
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1. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Industrialism
Call System
Semantics
Generalized Reciprocity
2. The study of language and its relation to culture
Participant Observation
Anthropological Linguistics
Efficiency
Universal Grammar
3. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Values
Transhumant Pastoralism
Capital
Ethnobotany
4. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Universal Grammar
Symbol
Phone
Glottochronogy
5. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Human Paleontology
Anthropological Linguistics
Cognitive Anthropology
Anthropological Theory
6. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Enculturation
Primatology
Interpretive Anthropology
Allophones
7. The sound system of a language
Phonology
Code Switching
Cargo System
Cargo System
8. 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
Pastoralism
Pastoralism
Leveling Mechanism
Economics
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
Functionalism
Negative Reciprocity
Cultural Anthropology
Human Paleontology
10. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Transhumant Pastoralism
Adaptation
Division of Labor
Syntax
11. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Productivity
Forensic Anthropology
Population Density
Market Exchange
12. 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
Economics
Cultural Anthropology
Innovation
13. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Morphology
Cultural Relativism
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Balanced Reciprocity
14. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Culture Shock
Agriculture
Glottochronogy
Economics
15. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Kinesics
Culture and Personality
Balanced Reciprocity
Capital
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
Syntax
Anthropological Theory
Norms
Code Switching
17. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Archeology
Enculturation
Balanced Reciprocity
Interpretive Anthropology
18. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Subculture
Ethnocentrism
Minimal Pair
Phone
19. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Transhumant Pastoralism
Population Density
Holism
Interpretive Anthropology
20. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Cargo System
Industrialism
Values
Core Vocabulary
21. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Economics
Sociolinguistics
Human Relations Area Files
Household
22. Social honor or respect
Ecological Functionalism
Human Relations Area Files
Prestige
Efficiency
23. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Capitalism
Pastoralism
Innovation
Conventionality
24. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Etic
Values
Historical Particularism
Core Vocabulary
25. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Archeology
Capitalism
Diffusion
Conventionality
26. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Participant Observation
Cognitive Anthropology
Historical Particularism
Postmodernism
27. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Great Vowel Shift
Reciprocity
Glottochronogy
Horticulture
28. Yield per person per unit of land
Productivity
Cultural Ecology
Primatology
Cultural Ecology
29. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Syntax
Firm
Diffusion
Foraging
30. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Holism
Industrialism
Reciprocity
Negative Reciprocity
31. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Code Switching
Globalization
Semantics
Reciprocity
32. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Informant
Proxemics
Racism
Cargo System
33. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Norms
Organic Analogy
Cultural Ecology
Universal Grammar
34. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Participant Observation
Sociolinguistics
Participant Observation
Agriculture
35. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Culture Shock
Core Vocabulary
Anthropological Theory
Functionalism
36. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Nomadic Pastoralism
Industrialism
Sociolinguistics
Leveling Mechanism
37. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Potlatch
Swidden Cultivation
Syntax
38. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Subculture
Potlatch
Phoneme
Ethnobotany
39. The study of language and its relation to culture
Glottochronogy
Displacement
Economic System
Anthropological Linguistics
40. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Pastoralism
Racism
Lexicon
Ecological Functionalism
41. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Horticulture
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Reciprocity
Glottochronogy
42. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Nomadic Pastoralism
Generalized Reciprocity
Peasants
43. 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
Kinesics
Core Vocabulary
Swidden Cultivation
Ethnocentrism
44. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Emic
Functionalism
Firm
Reciprocity
45. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Swidden Cultivation
Agriculture
Cultural Anthropology
46. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Reciprocity
Ethnoscape
Culture
Primatology
47. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Isolating Language
Interpretive Anthropology
Agriculture
Agglutinating Language
48. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Culture Shock
Globalization
Great Vowel Shift
Capital
49. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Division of Labor
Efficiency
Cargo System
Ethnoscience
50. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Leveling Mechanism
Isolating Language
Lexicon