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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available






2. 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






3. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society






4. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard






5. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods






6. 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






7. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present






8. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates






9. The sound system of a language






10. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans






11. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate






12. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective






13. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected






14. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600






15. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language






16. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork






17. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another






18. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts






19. The study of language and its relation to culture






20. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective






21. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures






22. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families






23. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society






24. 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






25. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture






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






27. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected






28. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space






29. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control






30. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush






31. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture






32. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures






33. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives






34. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another






35. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit






36. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful






37. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language






38. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth






39. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease






40. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems






41. 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






42. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them






43. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture






44. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies






45. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment






46. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society






47. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600






48. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages






49. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language






50. A group of people that depend on one another for survival or well-being as well as the relationships among such people - including their status and roles