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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment






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






3. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent






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






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






6. 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






7. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals






8. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate






9. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language






10. The total stock of words in a language






11. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts






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






13. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans






14. 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






15. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages






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






17. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group






18. A system of creating words from sounds






19. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures






20. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






21. 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






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






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






24. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language






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






26. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves






27. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors






28. 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






29. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork






30. The system of language that relates words to meanings






31. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals






32. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available






33. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies






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






35. The process of the mechanization of production






36. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates






37. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures






38. 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






39. The study of language and its relation to culture






40. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another






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






42. 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






43. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment






44. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages






45. The process of the mechanization of production






46. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society






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






48. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network






49. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages






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