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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them






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






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






4. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






5. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






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






7. The sound system of a language






8. Social honor or respect






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






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






11. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit






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






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






14. The study of language and its relation to culture






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






16. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture






17. Yield per person per hour of labor invested






18. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history






19. The comparison of societies to living organisms






20. 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






21. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people






22. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them






23. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains






24. 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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics






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






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






33. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent






34. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information






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






36. 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






37. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world






38. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group






39. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group






40. A system of creating words from sounds






41. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture






42. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding






43. A change in the biological structure of lifeways of an individual or population by which it becomes better fitted to survive and reproduce in its environment






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






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






46. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information






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






48. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains






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






50. 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