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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Cargo System
Anthropological Linguistics
Dominant Culture
Historical Particularism
2. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Reciprocity
Code Switching
Balanced Reciprocity
Nomadic Pastoralism
3. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Informant
Historical Particularism
Subsistence Strategies
Human Paleontology
4. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Kinesics
Horticulture
Human Paleontology
Productive Resources
5. The total stock of words in a language
Ethnocentrism
Lexicon
Emic
Cargo System
6. Yield per person per unit of land
Peasants
Allophones
Minimal Pair
Productivity
7. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Reciprocity
Artifacts
Adaptation
Phone
8. The analysis and study of touch
Haptics
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Market Exchange
Capital
9. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Society
Negative Reciprocity
Cultural Ecology
Comparative Linguistics
10. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Efficiency
Market Exchange
Redistribution
Proxemics
11. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Transhumant Pastoralism
Capital
Culture
Etic
12. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Kinesics
Population Density
Displacement
Economics
13. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Negative Reciprocity
Phone
Haptics
Productivity
14. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Generalized Reciprocity
Prestige
Comparative Linguistics
Productive Resources
15. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Proxemics
Organic Analogy
Swidden Cultivation
Human Relations Area Files
16. The process of the mechanization of production
Society
Industrialism
Minimal Pair
Anthropological Linguistics
17. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Anthropological Linguistics
Universal Grammar
Artifacts
Negative Reciprocity
18. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Innovation
Society
Economic System
Chronemics
19. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Collaborative Ethnography
Swidden Cultivation
Allophones
Division of Labor
20. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Phone
Foraging
Peasants
Agriculture
21. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Postmodernism
Isolating Language
Conventionality
Ethnomedicine
22. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Ethnoscape
Population Density
Transhumant Pastoralism
Values
23. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Racism
Reciprocity
Syntax
Balanced Reciprocity
24. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Subculture
Collaborative Ethnography
Balanced Reciprocity
Ethnocentrism
25. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Code Switching
Ethnomedicine
Division of Labor
Human Paleontology
26. The study of language and its relation to culture
Cognitive Anthropology
Conventionality
Anthropological Linguistics
Agriculture
27. 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
Isolating Language
Ethnomedicine
Culture
Horticulture
28. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Postmodernism
Ethnocentrism
Ethnoscience
Conventionality
29. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Transhumant Pastoralism
Adaptation
Industrialism
Applied Anthropology
30. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Globalization
Symbol
Postmodernism
31. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Adaptation
Plasticity
Conventionality
Productivity Linguistics
32. 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
Negative Reciprocity
Glottochronogy
Economics
33. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Sociolinguistics
Collaborative Ethnography
Ethnography
Semantics
34. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Peasants
Cognitive Anthropology
Productivity Linguistics
Interpretive Anthropology
35. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Cognitive Anthropology
Globalization
Firm
Minimal Pair
36. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Human Relations Area Files
Human Paleontology
Emic
Negative Reciprocity
37. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society
Human Paleontology
Productive Resources
Holism
Innovation
38. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Prestige
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Semantics
Cargo System
39. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Swidden Cultivation
Prestige
Collaborative Ethnography
Artifacts
40. 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
Ethnomedicine
Archeology
Ethnography
Ethnocentrism
41. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Code Switching
Displacement
Emic
Forensic Anthropology
42. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Holism
Productive Resources
Economic System
Organic Analogy
43. 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
Symbolic Anthropology
Horticulture
Plasticity
Functionalism
44. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Code Switching
Innovation
Horticulture
45. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Anthropological Theory
Forensic Anthropology
Archeology
Redistribution
46. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Adaptation
Leveling Mechanism
Horticulture
Ethnobotany
47. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Cultural Ecology
Sociolinguistics
Potlatch
Primatology
48. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Human Relations Area Files
Phoneme
Universal Grammar
Economic System
49. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Ethnoscience
Racism
Cultural Anthropology
Subsistence Strategies
50. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Human Relations Area Files
Cultural Anthropology
Potlatch
Leveling Mechanism
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