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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network






2. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society






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






4. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control






5. A system of creating words from sounds






6. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit






7. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society






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






9. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present






10. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture






11. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space






12. Yield per person per hour of labor invested






13. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth






14. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people






15. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages






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






17. The sound system of a language






18. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture






19. Social honor or respect






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






21. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members






22. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






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






24. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages






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






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






27. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications






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






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






30. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history






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






32. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful






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






34. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society






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






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






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






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






39. 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






40. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture






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






42. The smallest unit of language that has meanings






43. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture






44. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment






45. The sound system of a language






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






47. A system of creating words from sounds






48. 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






49. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture






50. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand