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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Yield per person per unit of land






2. The system of language that relates words to meanings






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






4. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies






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






6. The smallest unit of language that has meanings






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






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






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






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






11. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena






12. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control






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






14. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork






15. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present






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






17. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans






18. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures






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






20. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control






21. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain






22. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth






23. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing






24. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate






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






26. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society






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






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






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






30. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group






31. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






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






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






34. Social honor or respect






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






36. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people






44. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture






45. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences






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






47. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families






48. The study of language and its relation to culture






49. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts






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