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Cultural Anthropology
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1. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Symbolic Anthropology
Subsistence Strategies
Haptics
Swidden Cultivation
2. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Diffusion
Plasticity
Semantics
Population Density
3. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Values
Phonology
Etic
Informant
4. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Anthropological Theory
Generalized Reciprocity
Horticulture
Displacement
5. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Kinesics
Negative Reciprocity
Ethnography
Core Vocabulary
6. 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
Emic
Functionalism
Market Exchange
Phonology
7. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Society
Applied Anthropology
Phoneme
Pastoralism
8. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Efficiency
Chronemics
Prestige
Holism
9. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Leveling Mechanism
Economics
Allophones
Morpheme
10. The total stock of words in a language
Enculturation
Lexicon
Ethnocentrism
Reciprocity
11. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Artifacts
Minimal Pair
Sociolinguistics
Emic
12. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Forensic Anthropology
Agglutinating Language
Culture and Personality
Lexicon
13. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Potlatch
Pastoralism
Cognitive Anthropology
Household
14. 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
Cargo System
Primatology
Culture
Kinesics
15. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Code Switching
Phoneme
Kinesics
Innovation
16. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Capital
Foraging
Redistribution
Leveling Mechanism
17. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Globalization
Productivity
Enculturation
Informant
18. A system of creating words from sounds
Transhumant Pastoralism
Conventionality
Dominant Culture
Morphology
19. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Division of Labor
Potlatch
Ethnobotany
Cultural Ecology
20. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Prestige
Ecological Functionalism
Economic System
Enculturation
21. 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
Ethnology
Ethnomedicine
Capitalism
Agglutinating Language
22. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Ethnoscience
Ethnology
Functionalism
Cargo System
23. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Historical Particularism
Transhumant Pastoralism
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Cognitive Anthropology
24. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Leveling Mechanism
Ethnobotany
Allophones
Firm
25. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Symbol
Ethnoscience
Human Paleontology
Collaborative Ethnography
26. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Phone
Semantics
Household
Productive Resources
27. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Ethnocentrism
Postmodernism
Redistribution
Displacement
28. 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
Population Density
Artifacts
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Ethnomedicine
29. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Society
Collaborative Ethnography
Comparative Linguistics
Productivity Linguistics
30. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Applied Anthropology
Haptics
Allophones
Semantics
31. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Sociolinguistics
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnoscience
Pastoralism
32. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Foraging
Sociolinguistics
Comparative Linguistics
Transhumant Pastoralism
33. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Kinesics
Participant Observation
Ecological Functionalism
Peasants
34. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Society
Leveling Mechanism
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Human Relations Area Files
35. The process of the mechanization of production
Anthropological Linguistics
Ethnobotany
Industrialism
Call System
36. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Leveling Mechanism
Haptics
Market Exchange
Primatology
37. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Universal Grammar
Anthropological Theory
Adaptation
Dominant Culture
38. 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
Sociolinguistics
Call System
Subculture
39. The study of language and its relation to culture
Archeology
Anthropological Linguistics
Division of Labor
Plasticity
40. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Productivity Linguistics
Diffusion
Norms
Values
41. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Productive Resources
Firm
Holism
Ethnography
42. 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
Morphology
Code Switching
Functionalism
Industrialism
43. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Call System
Allophones
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Human Relations Area Files
44. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Chronemics
Forensic Anthropology
Code Switching
Ethnology
45. The process of the mechanization of production
Cargo System
Industrialism
Sociolinguistics
Haptics
46. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Division of Labor
Etic
Minimal Pair
Great Vowel Shift
47. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Code Switching
Displacement
Foraging
Call System
48. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Potlatch
Globalization
Redistribution
Proxemics
49. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Glottochronogy
Capital
Morphology
Division of Labor
50. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Pastoralism
Globalization
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Horticulture