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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. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems






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






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






5. 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






6. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment






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






8. 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






9. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture






10. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals






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






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






13. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)






14. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages






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






16. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)






17. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains






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






19. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






20. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture






21. Social honor or respect






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






23. The comparison of societies to living organisms






24. 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






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






26. The system of language that relates words to meanings






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






28. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited






29. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network






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






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






32. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society






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






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






35. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains






36. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society






37. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages






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






39. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language






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






41. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture






46. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand






47. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society






48. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network






49. A system of creating words from sounds






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







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