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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Yield per person per unit of land
Plasticity
Enculturation
Ethnology
Productivity
2. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Firm
Agriculture
Phonology
Morphology
3. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Interpretive Anthropology
Horticulture
Transhumant Pastoralism
Ethnoscience
4. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Proxemics
Allophones
Code Switching
Reciprocity
5. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Cultural Ecology
Morpheme
Ecological Functionalism
Division of Labor
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
Universal Grammar
Participant Observation
Society
Cargo System
7. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Phoneme
Peasants
Economic System
Symbol
8. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Organic Analogy
Globalization
Symbolic Anthropology
Ethnobotany
9. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Agglutinating Language
Phone
Ethnomedicine
Sociolinguistics
10. The process of the mechanization of production
Industrialism
Market Exchange
Generalized Reciprocity
Ethnography
11. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Potlatch
Great Vowel Shift
Productive Resources
Semantics
12. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Prestige
Innovation
Peasants
Culture Shock
13. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Displacement
Ethnoscience
Organic Analogy
Household
14. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Morpheme
Emic
Pastoralism
Phone
15. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Morphology
Morphology
Capital
Horticulture
16. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Ethnography
Functionalism
Minimal Pair
Cultural Anthropology
17. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Innovation
Nomadic Pastoralism
Peasants
Ethnoscape
18. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Syntax
Diffusion
Prestige
Economic System
19. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Human Paleontology
Ethnobotany
Culture Shock
Plasticity
20. Social honor or respect
Prestige
Potlatch
Syntax
Globalization
21. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Subculture
Cultural Relativism
Ecological Functionalism
Adaptation
22. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Core Vocabulary
Capitalism
Subculture
Historical Particularism
23. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Enculturation
Swidden Cultivation
Displacement
Subculture
24. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Call System
Symbol
Semantics
Morpheme
25. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Human Paleontology
Plasticity
Balanced Reciprocity
Organic Analogy
26. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Human Relations Area Files
Applied Anthropology
Proxemics
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
27. Yield per person per unit of land
Cultural Anthropology
Productivity
Etic
Phonology
28. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Universal Grammar
Postmodernism
Sociolinguistics
Culture Shock
29. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Semantics
Household
Postmodernism
Productive Resources
30. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Household
Conventionality
Productivity
Agriculture
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
Balanced Reciprocity
Cultural Anthropology
Firm
Redistribution
32. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Generalized Reciprocity
Participant Observation
Dominant Culture
Sociolinguistics
33. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Efficiency
Phonology
Nomadic Pastoralism
Human Relations Area Files
34. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Semantics
Efficiency
Innovation
Potlatch
35. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Artifacts
Culture and Personality
Leveling Mechanism
Archeology
36. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Ethnoscience
Culture Shock
Minimal Pair
Emic
37. 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
Postmodernism
Diffusion
Ethnocentrism
Human Paleontology
38. 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
Culture and Personality
Human Relations Area Files
Postmodernism
Primatology
39. The study of language and its relation to culture
Productive Resources
Ethnoscience
Anthropological Linguistics
Capitalism
40. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Negative Reciprocity
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Prestige
Prestige
41. 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
Conventionality
Peasants
Etic
Adaptation
42. 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
Productive Resources
Economics
Productive Resources
Cognitive Anthropology
43. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Market Exchange
Productivity Linguistics
Lexicon
Household
44. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Innovation
Holism
Etic
Artifacts
45. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Proxemics
Foraging
Symbolic Anthropology
Ethnoscience
46. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Firm
Capital
Chronemics
Ethnobotany
47. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Emic
Generalized Reciprocity
Productive Resources
Ethnomedicine
48. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Minimal Pair
Culture and Personality
Plasticity
Society
49. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Ethnography
Ethnobotany
Agriculture
Human Relations Area Files
50. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Innovation
Interpretive Anthropology
Syntax
Forensic Anthropology
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