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Cultural Anthropology
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1. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Firm
Generalized Reciprocity
Leveling Mechanism
Market Exchange
2. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Semantics
Cultural Relativism
Phonology
Ethnoscience
3. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Ethnocentrism
Forensic Anthropology
Culture Shock
Agriculture
4. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Forensic Anthropology
Productive Resources
Potlatch
Interpretive Anthropology
5. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Productivity
Cultural Ecology
Balanced Reciprocity
Dominant Culture
6. The total stock of words in a language
Potlatch
Peasants
Lexicon
Ethnography
7. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Chronemics
Racism
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Values
8. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Population Density
Morpheme
Firm
Swidden Cultivation
9. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Population Density
Productive Resources
Transhumant Pastoralism
Potlatch
10. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Culture and Personality
Semantics
Pastoralism
Applied Anthropology
11. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Glottochronogy
Organic Analogy
Society
Emic
12. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Culture and Personality
Participant Observation
Agriculture
Ethnology
13. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Ecological Functionalism
Negative Reciprocity
Applied Anthropology
Allophones
14. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Applied Anthropology
Market Exchange
Historical Particularism
Racism
15. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Diffusion
Population Density
Allophones
16. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Code Switching
Society
Morpheme
Functionalism
17. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Glottochronogy
Artifacts
Population Density
Morpheme
18. 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
Ethnocentrism
Subsistence Strategies
Cognitive Anthropology
Economics
19. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Allophones
Participant Observation
Ethnocentrism
Balanced Reciprocity
20. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Glottochronogy
Cognitive Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
Displacement
21. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Cultural Ecology
Conventionality
Firm
Culture Shock
22. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Ethnography
Generalized Reciprocity
Call System
Cultural Anthropology
23. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Horticulture
Informant
Swidden Cultivation
Potlatch
24. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Nomadic Pastoralism
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Artifacts
Primatology
25. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Agriculture
Historical Particularism
Ethnobotany
Division of Labor
26. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Code Switching
Cargo System
Primatology
Population Density
27. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Phonology
Call System
Population Density
28. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Holism
Cargo System
Morpheme
Swidden Cultivation
29. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society
Innovation
Diffusion
Forensic Anthropology
Holism
30. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Agriculture
Organic Analogy
Morpheme
Isolating Language
31. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Peasants
Cultural Anthropology
Anthropological Linguistics
Population Density
32. 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
Interpretive Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Conventionality
Ethnocentrism
33. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Efficiency
Ethnocentrism
Phonology
Market Exchange
34. 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
Transhumant Pastoralism
Human Relations Area Files
Ethnology
Functionalism
35. A set of propositions about which aspects of culture are critical - how they should be studied - and what the goal of studying them should be
Anthropological Theory
Kinesics
Historical Particularism
Population Density
36. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Interpretive Anthropology
Ethnobotany
Physical/Biological Anthropology
37. 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
Historical Particularism
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Plasticity
38. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Diffusion
Productive Resources
Chronemics
Proxemics
39. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Peasants
Great Vowel Shift
Economics
Productivity Linguistics
40. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Syntax
Ethnoscape
Redistribution
Forensic Anthropology
41. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Population Density
Interpretive Anthropology
Anthropological Theory
Subsistence Strategies
42. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Semantics
Symbolic Anthropology
Human Paleontology
Sociolinguistics
43. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Informant
Household
Postmodernism
Phone
44. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Swidden Cultivation
Great Vowel Shift
Generalized Reciprocity
Postmodernism
45. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Household
Productive Resources
Culture and Personality
Ethnography
46. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Ethnography
Ethnoscape
Swidden Cultivation
Sociolinguistics
47. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Anthropological Linguistics
Negative Reciprocity
Culture Shock
Industrialism
48. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Applied Anthropology
Human Paleontology
Morpheme
Capital
49. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Population Density
Minimal Pair
Prestige
50. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Historical Particularism
Ecological Functionalism
Phoneme
Human Paleontology