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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






2. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






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






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






5. 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






6. 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






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






8. 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






9. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture






10. 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






11. The process of the mechanization of production






12. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space






13. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains






14. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture






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






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






17. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment






18. The study of language and its relation to culture






19. A system of creating words from sounds






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






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






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






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






24. Yield per person per unit of land






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






26. Social honor or respect






27. The system of language that relates words to meanings






28. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages






29. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages






30. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful






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






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






33. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture






34. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network






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






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






37. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available






38. 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






39. 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






40. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture






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






42. 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






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






44. The total stock of words in a language






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






46. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications






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






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






49. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history






50. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space