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Cultural Anthropology
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1. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Morpheme
Kinesics
Core Vocabulary
Ethnomedicine
2. 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
Culture and Personality
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Capitalism
Anthropological Linguistics
3. 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
Swidden Cultivation
Code Switching
Functionalism
Reciprocity
4. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Cultural Ecology
Ethnoscape
Culture
Human Relations Area Files
5. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Human Paleontology
Reciprocity
Enculturation
Cultural Anthropology
6. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Economics
Division of Labor
Organic Analogy
Core Vocabulary
7. 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
Collaborative Ethnography
Division of Labor
Redistribution
Cultural Relativism
8. The sound system of a language
Phonology
Pastoralism
Prestige
Functionalism
9. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Efficiency
Productivity
Market Exchange
Subculture
10. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Historical Particularism
Phonology
Enculturation
Firm
11. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Proxemics
Productivity Linguistics
Code Switching
Human Paleontology
12. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Code Switching
Norms
Ecological Functionalism
Subsistence Strategies
13. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Ethnoscience
Sociolinguistics
Dominant Culture
Prestige
14. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Syntax
Anthropological Linguistics
Leveling Mechanism
Physical/Biological Anthropology
15. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Racism
Efficiency
Capitalism
Proxemics
16. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Phonology
Agriculture
Historical Particularism
Foraging
17. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Plasticity
Minimal Pair
Transhumant Pastoralism
Informant
18. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Code Switching
Phoneme
Cultural Relativism
Emic
19. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Ethnocentrism
Ethnology
Etic
Participant Observation
20. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Subculture
Ethnobotany
Symbolic Anthropology
Haptics
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
Culture
Glottochronogy
Redistribution
Industrialism
22. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Universal Grammar
Chronemics
Ethnobotany
Human Relations Area Files
23. 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
Racism
Call System
Swidden Cultivation
Functionalism
24. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Displacement
Ecological Functionalism
Call System
Collaborative Ethnography
25. 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
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnomedicine
Swidden Cultivation
Applied Anthropology
26. The study of language and its relation to culture
Ethnocentrism
Anthropological Linguistics
Cognitive Anthropology
Human Relations Area Files
27. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Reciprocity
Capitalism
Informant
Symbolic Anthropology
28. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Pastoralism
Conventionality
Code Switching
Peasants
29. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Cultural Relativism
Plasticity
Call System
Foraging
30. 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
Agriculture
Adaptation
Economic System
Informant
31. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Cognitive Anthropology
Organic Analogy
Emic
32. The sound system of a language
Phonology
Sociolinguistics
Participant Observation
Dominant Culture
33. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Comparative Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Proxemics
Foraging
34. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Cultural Relativism
Productivity Linguistics
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Adaptation
35. A system of creating words from sounds
Morphology
Population Density
Productive Resources
Racism
36. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Agriculture
Phone
Prestige
Household
37. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Call System
Applied Anthropology
Chronemics
Physical/Biological Anthropology
38. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Ethnomedicine
Anthropological Theory
Chronemics
Allophones
39. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Negative Reciprocity
Ethnocentrism
Racism
Ethnography
40. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Adaptation
Glottochronogy
Diffusion
Conventionality
41. The total stock of words in a language
Lexicon
Primatology
Chronemics
Cultural Ecology
42. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Organic Analogy
Pastoralism
Economic System
Racism
43. 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
Syntax
Conventionality
Society
Globalization
44. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Semantics
Population Density
Anthropological Theory
Informant
45. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Generalized Reciprocity
Archeology
Proxemics
Applied Anthropology
46. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Capital
Etic
Ethnocentrism
47. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Norms
Phoneme
Morpheme
Efficiency
48. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Cultural Ecology
Forensic Anthropology
Efficiency
Balanced Reciprocity
49. Yield per person per unit of land
Phone
Participant Observation
Productivity Linguistics
Productivity
50. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Household
Foraging
Dominant Culture
Historical Particularism