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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Universal Grammar
Archeology
Peasants
Nomadic Pastoralism
2. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Archeology
Minimal Pair
Ecological Functionalism
Emic
3. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Leveling Mechanism
Transhumant Pastoralism
Allophones
Potlatch
4. 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
Generalized Reciprocity
Dominant Culture
Anthropological Theory
Haptics
5. 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
Functionalism
Holism
Forensic Anthropology
Redistribution
6. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Human Relations Area Files
Market Exchange
Swidden Cultivation
Human Paleontology
7. 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
Emic
Allophones
Proxemics
8. Social honor or respect
Sociolinguistics
Economic System
Prestige
Ethnocentrism
9. The study of language and its relation to culture
Ethnoscape
Anthropological Linguistics
Industrialism
Ethnocentrism
10. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Division of Labor
Semantics
Subculture
Physical/Biological Anthropology
11. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Peasants
Call System
Glottochronogy
Ethnomedicine
12. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Human Relations Area Files
Subculture
Horticulture
Ethnology
13. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Adaptation
Potlatch
Etic
Cargo System
14. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Economic System
Cargo System
Ethnoscape
Displacement
15. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Great Vowel Shift
Peasants
Ethnobotany
Leveling Mechanism
16. Yield per person per unit of land
Semantics
Collaborative Ethnography
Allophones
Productivity
17. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Norms
Glottochronogy
Proxemics
Market Exchange
18. 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
Ethnomedicine
Household
Anthropological Theory
Culture and Personality
19. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Human Paleontology
Leveling Mechanism
Economics
Interpretive Anthropology
20. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Ethnobotany
Human Relations Area Files
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Innovation
21. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Capital
Anthropological Theory
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Participant Observation
22. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Swidden Cultivation
Efficiency
Values
Symbolic Anthropology
23. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Symbol
Subculture
Informant
Agglutinating Language
24. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Phone
Cultural Anthropology
Reciprocity
Agriculture
25. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Cultural Ecology
Foraging
Human Relations Area Files
Displacement
26. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Productivity
Potlatch
Comparative Linguistics
Morphology
27. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Lexicon
Capitalism
Industrialism
Cultural Ecology
28. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Market Exchange
Code Switching
Chronemics
Symbol
29. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Generalized Reciprocity
Organic Analogy
Generalized Reciprocity
Physical/Biological Anthropology
30. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Dominant Culture
Subsistence Strategies
Conventionality
Transhumant Pastoralism
31. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Proxemics
Redistribution
Allophones
Postmodernism
32. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Core Vocabulary
Plasticity
Archeology
Anthropological Theory
33. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Human Relations Area Files
Foraging
Artifacts
Cultural Ecology
34. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Ethnography
Balanced Reciprocity
Ethnology
Agglutinating Language
35. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Informant
Artifacts
Swidden Cultivation
Functionalism
36. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Semantics
Conventionality
Capitalism
Enculturation
37. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Chronemics
Great Vowel Shift
Archeology
Proxemics
38. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Ethnoscience
Racism
Semantics
Phone
39. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Potlatch
Syntax
Division of Labor
Values
40. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Anthropological Theory
Haptics
Pastoralism
Anthropological Theory
41. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Core Vocabulary
Population Density
Culture
Leveling Mechanism
42. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Leveling Mechanism
Industrialism
Ethnography
Economic System
43. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Etic
Kinesics
Subsistence Strategies
Population Density
44. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Culture
Industrialism
Subculture
Ethnoscience
45. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Transhumant Pastoralism
Market Exchange
Cargo System
Diffusion
46. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Foraging
Phoneme
Participant Observation
Economics
47. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Market Exchange
Minimal Pair
Ethnocentrism
Call System
48. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Phonology
Ethnology
Ethnocentrism
Phone
49. 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
Adaptation
Collaborative Ethnography
Racism
Ethnomedicine
50. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Haptics
Division of Labor
Sociolinguistics
Holism