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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Kinesics
Redistribution
Productive Resources
Allophones
2. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Core Vocabulary
Morphology
Diffusion
Phoneme
3. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Swidden Cultivation
Culture and Personality
Emic
Generalized Reciprocity
4. A system of creating words from sounds
Great Vowel Shift
Morphology
Ecological Functionalism
Population Density
5. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Values
Participant Observation
Culture and Personality
Division of Labor
6. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Productive Resources
Isolating Language
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Dominant Culture
7. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Society
Cultural Ecology
Semantics
Norms
8. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Economic System
Minimal Pair
Racism
Phonology
9. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Ethnoscience
Ethnocentrism
Balanced Reciprocity
Pastoralism
10. The analysis and study of touch
Prestige
Syntax
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Haptics
11. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Syntax
Transhumant Pastoralism
Etic
Call System
12. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Syntax
Division of Labor
Ethnoscience
Artifacts
13. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Population Density
Organic Analogy
Ethnocentrism
Holism
14. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Phone
Allophones
Division of Labor
Productivity Linguistics
15. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Syntax
Code Switching
Morpheme
Cultural Relativism
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
Holism
Efficiency
Ethnomedicine
Postmodernism
17. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Diffusion
Productive Resources
Anthropological Theory
Racism
18. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Potlatch
Swidden Cultivation
Plasticity
Household
19. 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
Household
Human Paleontology
Redistribution
Culture Shock
20. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Pastoralism
Horticulture
Human Relations Area Files
Cognitive Anthropology
21. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Conventionality
Norms
Productivity Linguistics
Globalization
22. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Call System
Reciprocity
Ethnography
Productivity
23. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Participant Observation
Cognitive Anthropology
Culture and Personality
Ethnocentrism
24. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Industrialism
Foraging
Informant
Ethnoscience
25. 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
Morphology
Historical Particularism
Culture and Personality
Primatology
26. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Capital
Morpheme
Market Exchange
Enculturation
27. The total stock of words in a language
Informant
Economic System
Lexicon
Balanced Reciprocity
28. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Culture
Conventionality
Culture Shock
Displacement
29. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures
Haptics
Conventionality
Human Relations Area Files
Dominant Culture
30. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Foraging
Interpretive Anthropology
Informant
Norms
31. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Ecological Functionalism
Participant Observation
Code Switching
Reciprocity
32. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Proxemics
Human Paleontology
Phoneme
Firm
33. 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
Phone
Call System
Culture
Forensic Anthropology
34. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Division of Labor
Great Vowel Shift
Division of Labor
Leveling Mechanism
35. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Etic
Ethnology
Postmodernism
Swidden Cultivation
36. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Pastoralism
Conventionality
Household
Ethnoscape
37. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Anthropological Theory
Ethnoscience
Phone
Culture and Personality
38. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Division of Labor
Cultural Relativism
Enculturation
Core Vocabulary
39. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Phoneme
Ecological Functionalism
Phoneme
Chronemics
40. 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
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Culture
Primatology
Call System
41. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Market Exchange
Ethnomedicine
Symbol
Displacement
42. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Interpretive Anthropology
Productivity Linguistics
Morphology
Potlatch
43. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Productivity
Agriculture
Organic Analogy
Capitalism
44. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Globalization
Collaborative Ethnography
Morpheme
Transhumant Pastoralism
45. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Call System
Subsistence Strategies
Norms
Ethnology
46. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Allophones
Generalized Reciprocity
Racism
Participant Observation
47. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Morpheme
Cultural Ecology
Historical Particularism
Organic Analogy
48. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Division of Labor
Nomadic Pastoralism
Population Density
Transhumant Pastoralism
49. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Great Vowel Shift
Ethnology
Historical Particularism
Artifacts
50. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Code Switching
Comparative Linguistics
Isolating Language
Culture and Personality