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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Racism
Leveling Mechanism
Innovation
Efficiency
2. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Morpheme
Postmodernism
Chronemics
Call System
3. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Displacement
Phonology
Negative Reciprocity
Innovation
4. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Cognitive Anthropology
Isolating Language
Reciprocity
Racism
5. The total stock of words in a language
Code Switching
Lexicon
Ethnography
Capitalism
6. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Economics
Transhumant Pastoralism
Comparative Linguistics
Great Vowel Shift
7. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Call System
Ethnomedicine
Population Density
Phoneme
8. 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
Globalization
Participant Observation
Ethnobotany
Culture and Personality
9. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Cultural Ecology
Nomadic Pastoralism
Pastoralism
Agglutinating Language
10. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Household
Capitalism
Economic System
Market Exchange
11. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Innovation
Ethnoscape
Archeology
Postmodernism
12. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Leveling Mechanism
Subsistence Strategies
Universal Grammar
Morpheme
13. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Isolating Language
Subculture
Syntax
Functionalism
14. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Comparative Linguistics
Human Relations Area Files
Anthropological Theory
Peasants
15. 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
Displacement
Economics
Redistribution
Foraging
16. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Transhumant Pastoralism
Ethnoscape
Firm
Balanced Reciprocity
17. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Division of Labor
Population Density
Reciprocity
Ecological Functionalism
18. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Emic
Reciprocity
Productivity Linguistics
Human Paleontology
19. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Foraging
Globalization
Symbolic Anthropology
Firm
20. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Cultural Anthropology
Adaptation
Symbolic Anthropology
Haptics
21. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze
Glottochronogy
Kinesics
Symbol
Syntax
22. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Code Switching
Archeology
Racism
Sociolinguistics
23. A system of creating words from sounds
Plasticity
Morphology
Pastoralism
Historical Particularism
24. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Capital
Emic
Interpretive Anthropology
Allophones
25. 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
Cargo System
Ethnomedicine
Cultural Relativism
Productivity Linguistics
26. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Firm
Enculturation
Phone
Horticulture
27. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Code Switching
Agglutinating Language
Morpheme
Household
28. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Agglutinating Language
Diffusion
Population Density
Emic
29. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Balanced Reciprocity
Historical Particularism
Potlatch
Primatology
30. 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
Proxemics
Ethnocentrism
Symbolic Anthropology
Allophones
31. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Cargo System
Applied Anthropology
Etic
Culture Shock
32. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Efficiency
Functionalism
Morpheme
Agglutinating Language
33. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Racism
Collaborative Ethnography
Ethnomedicine
Sociolinguistics
34. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Collaborative Ethnography
Ethnobotany
Code Switching
Isolating Language
35. 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
Cultural Ecology
Population Density
Horticulture
Ethnocentrism
36. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Agglutinating Language
Proxemics
Allophones
Productive Resources
37. 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
Ethnology
Division of Labor
Phonology
38. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Primatology
Negative Reciprocity
Allophones
Core Vocabulary
39. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Semantics
Transhumant Pastoralism
Racism
Household
40. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Values
Human Paleontology
Code Switching
Allophones
41. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Anthropological Theory
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Anthropology
Household
42. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Diffusion
Call System
Chronemics
Culture
43. Social honor or respect
Capital
Prestige
Society
Call System
44. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Artifacts
Comparative Linguistics
Cultural Relativism
Interpretive Anthropology
45. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Functionalism
Applied Anthropology
Lexicon
Kinesics
46. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Foraging
Household
Reciprocity
Phone
47. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Glottochronogy
Ecological Functionalism
Universal Grammar
Redistribution
48. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Swidden Cultivation
Lexicon
Ecological Functionalism
Allophones
49. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Capitalism
Cultural Anthropology
Nomadic Pastoralism
Balanced Reciprocity
50. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Subsistence Strategies
Allophones
Phoneme
Potlatch