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Cultural Anthropology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Social honor or respect
Chronemics
Prestige
Ethnomedicine
Isolating Language
2. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Capitalism
Core Vocabulary
Minimal Pair
Subsistence Strategies
3. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Diffusion
Balanced Reciprocity
Economic System
Organic Analogy
4. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Swidden Cultivation
Cultural Ecology
Culture
Symbol
5. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Reciprocity
Cultural Relativism
Capital
Etic
6. The process of the mechanization of production
Industrialism
Code Switching
Culture Shock
Reciprocity
7. The analysis and study of touch
Efficiency
Great Vowel Shift
Haptics
Lexicon
8. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Semantics
Postmodernism
Universal Grammar
Code Switching
9. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Ethnography
Archeology
Semantics
Enculturation
10. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Swidden Cultivation
Economic System
Potlatch
Cultural Anthropology
11. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Human Relations Area Files
Great Vowel Shift
Forensic Anthropology
Human Paleontology
12. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Symbolic Anthropology
Ethnography
Transhumant Pastoralism
Comparative Linguistics
13. 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
Phoneme
Efficiency
Etic
Economics
14. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Informant
Prestige
Diffusion
Functionalism
15. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Kinesics
Syntax
Transhumant Pastoralism
Great Vowel Shift
16. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Emic
Applied Anthropology
Ethnoscape
Functionalism
17. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Phone
Universal Grammar
Globalization
Industrialism
18. 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
Functionalism
Market Exchange
Values
19. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Swidden Cultivation
Population Density
Etic
Pastoralism
20. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Economic System
Prestige
Norms
Peasants
21. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Leveling Mechanism
Values
Informant
Society
22. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society
Functionalism
Holism
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
23. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Proxemics
Capitalism
Ethnography
Comparative Linguistics
24. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Society
Subculture
Ecological Functionalism
Cognitive Anthropology
25. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Peasants
Interpretive Anthropology
Allophones
Ethnocentrism
26. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Pastoralism
Redistribution
Minimal Pair
Cultural Relativism
27. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Foraging
Capitalism
Norms
Informant
28. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Foraging
Prestige
Productivity Linguistics
Pastoralism
29. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Cultural Ecology
Semantics
Core Vocabulary
30. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Universal Grammar
Human Relations Area Files
Ethnocentrism
Collaborative Ethnography
31. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Household
Balanced Reciprocity
Proxemics
Economic System
32. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Etic
Swidden Cultivation
Semantics
Leveling Mechanism
33. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Morphology
Agriculture
Forensic Anthropology
Artifacts
34. 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
Morpheme
Comparative Linguistics
Artifacts
Culture and Personality
35. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Potlatch
Morphology
Enculturation
Agriculture
36. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Leveling Mechanism
Symbolic Anthropology
Productive Resources
Anthropological Linguistics
37. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Symbol
Potlatch
Isolating Language
Archeology
38. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Universal Grammar
Swidden Cultivation
Symbol
Cargo System
39. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Cultural Relativism
Semantics
Values
Negative Reciprocity
40. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Globalization
Functionalism
Collaborative Ethnography
Phoneme
41. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Code Switching
Displacement
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Call System
42. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Morpheme
Transhumant Pastoralism
Globalization
Horticulture
43. The sound system of a language
Phonology
Transhumant Pastoralism
Artifacts
Lexicon
44. 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
Lexicon
Industrialism
Culture
Ecological Functionalism
45. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Postmodernism
Interpretive Anthropology
Transhumant Pastoralism
Universal Grammar
46. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Values
Ethnoscience
Norms
Emic
47. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Ethnography
Enculturation
Subculture
Cargo System
48. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Morpheme
Artifacts
Interpretive Anthropology
Agglutinating Language
49. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Culture Shock
Call System
Human Paleontology
Phone
50. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Postmodernism
Pastoralism
Glottochronogy
Morphology