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Cultural Anthropology

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






2. The system of language that relates words to meanings






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






4. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves






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






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






7. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






8. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures






9. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain






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






11. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand






12. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society






13. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society






21. The comparison of societies to living organisms






22. 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






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






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






25. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society






26. The analysis and study of touch






27. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing






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






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






30. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand






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






32. The sound system of a language






33. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society






34. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures






35. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems






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






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






38. The process of the mechanization of production






39. 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






40. A system of creating words from sounds






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






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






43. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems






44. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






45. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings






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






47. 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






48. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures






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






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