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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems






2. The total stock of words in a language






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






4. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context






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






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






7. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants






8. A system of creating words from sounds






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






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






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






12. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






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






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






15. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space






16. 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






17. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices






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






19. The smallest unit of language that has meanings






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






21. 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






22. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand






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






24. The process of the mechanization of production






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






37. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture






38. A mutual give and take among people of equal status






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






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






41. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants






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






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






44. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages






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






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






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






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






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






50. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society