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Cultural Anthropology
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1. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Pastoralism
Productive Resources
Nomadic Pastoralism
Syntax
2. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures
Human Relations Area Files
Ethnology
Norms
Economic System
3. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Forensic Anthropology
Horticulture
Functionalism
Reciprocity
4. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Globalization
Redistribution
Economics
Semantics
5. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Nomadic Pastoralism
Society
Peasants
6. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Population Density
Economic System
Ethnobotany
Culture Shock
7. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Ethnoscape
Capitalism
Minimal Pair
Dominant Culture
8. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Population Density
Core Vocabulary
Productive Resources
Phoneme
9. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Etic
Productivity
Kinesics
Historical Particularism
10. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Cargo System
Human Relations Area Files
Firm
Collaborative Ethnography
11. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Interpretive Anthropology
Culture and Personality
Haptics
Pastoralism
12. 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
Proxemics
Society
Leveling Mechanism
Culture and Personality
13. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Economics
Foraging
Productivity
Haptics
14. Judging other cultures from the perspective of ones own culture; the notion that ones own culture is more beautiful - rational - and nearer to perfection than any other
Generalized Reciprocity
Norms
Ethnocentrism
Swidden Cultivation
15. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Ethnocentrism
Racism
Haptics
Archeology
16. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Symbol
Ethnobotany
Collaborative Ethnography
Archeology
17. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Core Vocabulary
Ethnoscience
Haptics
Collaborative Ethnography
18. Judging other cultures from the perspective of ones own culture; the notion that ones own culture is more beautiful - rational - and nearer to perfection than any other
Chronemics
Industrialism
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Ecology
19. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Cognitive Anthropology
Balanced Reciprocity
Adaptation
Reciprocity
20. Social honor or respect
Interpretive Anthropology
Core Vocabulary
Primatology
Prestige
21. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Productivity Linguistics
Norms
Ethnography
Subsistence Strategies
22. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Cultural Anthropology
Market Exchange
Semantics
Symbol
23. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Morpheme
Cargo System
Culture and Personality
Cultural Ecology
24. 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
Economic System
Cultural Relativism
Culture and Personality
Cognitive Anthropology
25. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Code Switching
Culture Shock
Cognitive Anthropology
Interpretive Anthropology
26. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Forensic Anthropology
Nomadic Pastoralism
Allophones
Postmodernism
27. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Isolating Language
Innovation
Productive Resources
Firm
28. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Symbolic Anthropology
Firm
Culture Shock
Enculturation
29. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Ethnocentrism
Applied Anthropology
Chronemics
Phone
30. The analysis and study of touch
Peasants
Haptics
Conventionality
Ethnobotany
31. 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
Plasticity
Pastoralism
Redistribution
Minimal Pair
32. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Pastoralism
Isolating Language
Culture Shock
Culture
33. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Balanced Reciprocity
Great Vowel Shift
Leveling Mechanism
Cultural Anthropology
34. 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
Racism
Foraging
35. 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
Ethnoscience
Anthropological Theory
Economics
Globalization
36. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Syntax
Allophones
Society
Cultural Anthropology
37. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Sociolinguistics
Proxemics
Racism
Participant Observation
38. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Organic Analogy
Comparative Linguistics
Historical Particularism
Lexicon
39. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Participant Observation
Values
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Glottochronogy
40. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Semantics
Subculture
Cultural Anthropology
Economic System
41. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Redistribution
Population Density
Ethnology
Productivity Linguistics
42. The study of language and its relation to culture
Racism
Anthropological Linguistics
Historical Particularism
Glottochronogy
43. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Glottochronogy
Productive Resources
Household
Ethnobotany
44. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Displacement
Horticulture
Human Paleontology
Anthropological Linguistics
45. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Ethnoscape
Culture Shock
Anthropological Theory
Human Paleontology
46. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Code Switching
Values
Dominant Culture
Productivity Linguistics
47. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Functionalism
Minimal Pair
Peasants
Comparative Linguistics
48. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Adaptation
Minimal Pair
Productive Resources
Universal Grammar
49. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Peasants
Phonology
Subsistence Strategies
Diffusion
50. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Economic System
Values
Participant Observation
Population Density