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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Primatology
Horticulture
Globalization
Anthropological Theory
2. A system of creating words from sounds
Productivity Linguistics
Potlatch
Morphology
Archeology
3. 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
Historical Particularism
Economic System
Etic
Economics
4. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Human Paleontology
Sociolinguistics
Prestige
Symbol
5. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Phone
Agriculture
Enculturation
Balanced Reciprocity
6. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Anthropological Theory
Dominant Culture
Capital
Reciprocity
7. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Ethnography
Culture Shock
Artifacts
Human Paleontology
8. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Enculturation
Functionalism
Culture and Personality
Archeology
9. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Productivity Linguistics
Productivity Linguistics
Capitalism
Ethnology
10. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Minimal Pair
Anthropological Linguistics
Universal Grammar
Emic
11. 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
Cultural Anthropology
Adaptation
Proxemics
Holism
12. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Cargo System
Enculturation
Negative Reciprocity
Participant Observation
13. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Minimal Pair
Economic System
Informant
14. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Isolating Language
Chronemics
Cargo System
Ecological Functionalism
15. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Etic
Conventionality
Anthropological Theory
Nomadic Pastoralism
16. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Diffusion
Firm
Culture and Personality
Organic Analogy
17. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Ethnography
Cultural Ecology
Peasants
Adaptation
18. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Organic Analogy
Symbol
Generalized Reciprocity
Generalized Reciprocity
19. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Syntax
Globalization
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Society
20. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Ecological Functionalism
Symbolic Anthropology
Peasants
Cultural Relativism
21. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Informant
Reciprocity
Population Density
Proxemics
22. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Artifacts
Subculture
Norms
Transhumant Pastoralism
23. 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
Collaborative Ethnography
Symbolic Anthropology
Culture
Ethnoscience
24. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Minimal Pair
Ethnography
Adaptation
Proxemics
25. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Symbolic Anthropology
Swidden Cultivation
Population Density
Globalization
26. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Glottochronogy
Participant Observation
Ethnomedicine
Foraging
27. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Ethnology
Syntax
Cultural Relativism
Culture Shock
28. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Firm
Glottochronogy
Forensic Anthropology
Capital
29. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Market Exchange
Symbolic Anthropology
Morpheme
Foraging
30. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Morpheme
Economic System
Division of Labor
Physical/Biological Anthropology
31. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Cargo System
Ethnomedicine
Human Paleontology
Economics
32. Social honor or respect
Organic Analogy
Prestige
Symbol
Cargo System
33. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Efficiency
Potlatch
Pastoralism
Ecological Functionalism
34. The sound system of a language
Lexicon
Proxemics
Phonology
Cultural Relativism
35. Yield per person per unit of land
Ethnoscience
Productivity
Norms
Economic System
36. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Society
Generalized Reciprocity
Ethnobotany
Applied Anthropology
37. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Archeology
Sociolinguistics
Emic
Dominant Culture
38. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Phonology
Potlatch
Morphology
Cultural Relativism
39. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Nomadic Pastoralism
Balanced Reciprocity
Transhumant Pastoralism
Syntax
40. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Negative Reciprocity
Household
Semantics
Haptics
41. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Historical Particularism
Productive Resources
Subculture
Productivity Linguistics
42. The process of the mechanization of production
Ethnomedicine
Population Density
Industrialism
Cultural Ecology
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
Negative Reciprocity
Society
Isolating Language
Cognitive Anthropology
44. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Culture
Globalization
Chronemics
Ethnography
45. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Postmodernism
Ethnomedicine
Ecological Functionalism
Symbol
46. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Ethnoscape
Leveling Mechanism
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Values
47. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Agglutinating Language
Core Vocabulary
Agglutinating Language
Comparative Linguistics
48. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Code Switching
Primatology
Ethnobotany
Cargo System
49. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Kinesics
Capitalism
Firm
Glottochronogy
50. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Organic Analogy
Phoneme
Culture and Personality
Redistribution