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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Yield per person per unit of land
Productivity
Symbolic Anthropology
Allophones
Enculturation
2. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Comparative Linguistics
Semantics
Ethnocentrism
Agglutinating Language
3. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Ethnoscience
Reciprocity
Applied Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
4. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Racism
Ethnology
Ecological Functionalism
Peasants
5. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Phoneme
Plasticity
Morphology
Call System
6. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Morphology
Morpheme
Informant
Diffusion
7. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze
Economic System
Productivity Linguistics
Kinesics
Nomadic Pastoralism
8. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Agriculture
Household
Comparative Linguistics
Postmodernism
9. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Proxemics
Generalized Reciprocity
Symbol
Lexicon
10. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Plasticity
Horticulture
Firm
Semantics
11. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Proxemics
Ecological Functionalism
Negative Reciprocity
Ethnology
12. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Plasticity
Agriculture
Ecological Functionalism
Globalization
13. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Etic
Dominant Culture
Holism
Allophones
14. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Foraging
Organic Analogy
Collaborative Ethnography
Prestige
15. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Transhumant Pastoralism
Productive Resources
Human Relations Area Files
Displacement
16. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Universal Grammar
Division of Labor
Innovation
17. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Allophones
Phoneme
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Potlatch
18. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Allophones
Forensic Anthropology
Dominant Culture
Syntax
19. 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
Generalized Reciprocity
Productivity Linguistics
Call System
Anthropological Theory
20. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Productive Resources
Great Vowel Shift
Globalization
Agriculture
21. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Leveling Mechanism
Capitalism
Norms
Firm
22. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Forensic Anthropology
Values
Capital
Agglutinating Language
23. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Subsistence Strategies
Morphology
Negative Reciprocity
Historical Particularism
24. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Chronemics
Human Relations Area Files
Ethnobotany
Displacement
25. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Organic Analogy
Minimal Pair
Innovation
Foraging
26. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Morphology
Cognitive Anthropology
Human Paleontology
Conventionality
27. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Redistribution
Minimal Pair
Applied Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
28. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Ethnobotany
Efficiency
Holism
Applied Anthropology
29. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Isolating Language
Efficiency
Values
Innovation
30. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Allophones
Enculturation
Ethnoscape
Symbol
31. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Etic
Semantics
Economics
Ecological Functionalism
32. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Symbol
Productivity
Leveling Mechanism
Informant
33. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Negative Reciprocity
Nomadic Pastoralism
Code Switching
Prestige
34. Social honor or respect
Organic Analogy
Semantics
Prestige
Postmodernism
35. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Forensic Anthropology
Ethnology
Leveling Mechanism
Nomadic Pastoralism
36. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Phonology
Subculture
Balanced Reciprocity
Cultural Relativism
37. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Sociolinguistics
Postmodernism
Ethnoscience
Negative Reciprocity
38. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Market Exchange
Great Vowel Shift
Informant
Subsistence Strategies
39. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Capital
Subculture
Human Relations Area Files
Applied Anthropology
40. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Human Paleontology
Capitalism
Phone
Organic Analogy
41. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Cultural Anthropology
Historical Particularism
Participant Observation
Capitalism
42. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Culture Shock
Reciprocity
Ethnoscape
Leveling Mechanism
43. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Horticulture
Racism
Cultural Anthropology
Haptics
44. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Ethnography
Cultural Ecology
Call System
Great Vowel Shift
45. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Great Vowel Shift
Syntax
Sociolinguistics
Agglutinating Language
46. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Peasants
Firm
Artifacts
Pastoralism
47. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Chronemics
Comparative Linguistics
Conventionality
Participant Observation
48. The study of language and its relation to culture
Allophones
Isolating Language
Code Switching
Anthropological Linguistics
49. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Household
Sociolinguistics
Redistribution
Displacement
50. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Productive Resources
Forensic Anthropology
Culture
Symbol