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Cultural Anthropology
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1. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Great Vowel Shift
Ethnoscape
Artifacts
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
2. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Informant
Isolating Language
Globalization
Efficiency
3. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Norms
Pastoralism
Ethnocentrism
Phone
4. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Human Relations Area Files
Allophones
Agriculture
Household
5. 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
Comparative Linguistics
Cultural Ecology
Ethnocentrism
6. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Population Density
Displacement
Primatology
Productive Resources
7. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Holism
Ethnomedicine
Subsistence Strategies
Plasticity
8. Yield per person per unit of land
Plasticity
Household
Productivity
Great Vowel Shift
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
Norms
Semantics
Functionalism
Etic
10. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Semantics
Phoneme
Economic System
Division of Labor
11. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Productive Resources
Innovation
Cultural Ecology
Ethnobotany
12. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Swidden Cultivation
Plasticity
Lexicon
Artifacts
13. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Phone
Archeology
Organic Analogy
Anthropological Theory
14. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Ethnoscape
Cargo System
Minimal Pair
Allophones
15. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Agriculture
Artifacts
Industrialism
Cognitive Anthropology
16. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Ecological Functionalism
Morphology
Culture Shock
Capitalism
17. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Conventionality
Participant Observation
Productivity
Cognitive Anthropology
18. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Globalization
Forensic Anthropology
Comparative Linguistics
Peasants
19. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Capital
Diffusion
Great Vowel Shift
Ethnomedicine
20. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Historical Particularism
Subsistence Strategies
Capitalism
Emic
21. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Economic System
Racism
Transhumant Pastoralism
Glottochronogy
22. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Great Vowel Shift
Allophones
Firm
Division of Labor
23. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Anthropological Linguistics
Emic
Proxemics
Postmodernism
24. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Phone
Plasticity
Holism
Semantics
25. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Forensic Anthropology
Symbol
Pastoralism
Capital
26. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Ecological Functionalism
Population Density
Population Density
Symbolic Anthropology
27. The total stock of words in a language
Population Density
Ethnoscience
Emic
Lexicon
28. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Horticulture
Ethnology
Population Density
Interpretive Anthropology
29. The total stock of words in a language
Lexicon
Proxemics
Organic Analogy
Culture Shock
30. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Postmodernism
Innovation
Kinesics
Leveling Mechanism
31. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Values
Proxemics
Culture
Generalized Reciprocity
32. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Cultural Anthropology
Balanced Reciprocity
Collaborative Ethnography
Dominant Culture
33. 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
Redistribution
Kinesics
Norms
Displacement
34. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Symbolic Anthropology
Participant Observation
Cultural Anthropology
Chronemics
35. Yield per person per unit of land
Productivity
Phonology
Capital
Efficiency
36. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Comparative Linguistics
Phone
Emic
Physical/Biological Anthropology
37. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Sociolinguistics
Anthropological Linguistics
Market Exchange
Human Paleontology
38. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Postmodernism
Subsistence Strategies
Market Exchange
Glottochronogy
39. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Conventionality
Ethnoscape
Universal Grammar
Productivity Linguistics
40. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Ethnology
Lexicon
Ethnobotany
Sociolinguistics
41. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Ethnology
Cultural Anthropology
Capital
Cultural Anthropology
42. 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
Kinesics
Balanced Reciprocity
Economics
Archeology
43. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Market Exchange
Proxemics
Nomadic Pastoralism
Potlatch
44. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Plasticity
Subsistence Strategies
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Productivity Linguistics
45. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Redistribution
Minimal Pair
Cargo System
Capitalism
46. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Kinesics
Innovation
Foraging
Agriculture
47. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Ethnomedicine
Ethnoscience
Holism
Phonology
48. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Redistribution
Allophones
Norms
Globalization
49. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Generalized Reciprocity
Ethnoscience
Subculture
Redistribution
50. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Core Vocabulary
Cultural Relativism
Society
Anthropological Linguistics