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Cultural Anthropology

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






2. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease






3. 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






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






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






6. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members






7. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected






8. The smallest unit of language that has meanings






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






10. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture






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






19. 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






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






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






22. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society






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






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






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






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






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






28. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members






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






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






31. 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






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






33. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze






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






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






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






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






38. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment






39. The study of language and its relation to culture






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






41. The process of the mechanization of production






42. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600






43. The smallest unit of language that has meanings






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






45. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent






46. The system of language that relates words to meanings






47. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors






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






49. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals






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