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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. The comparison of societies to living organisms






2. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard






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






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






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






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






7. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






8. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective






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






10. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices






11. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment






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






13. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context






14. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods






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






16. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages






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






18. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited






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






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






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






22. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics






23. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush






24. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them






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






26. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language






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






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






29. 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






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






31. Yield per person per unit of land






32. The learned behaviors and symbols that allow people to live in groups; the primary means by which humans adapt to their environment; the ways of life characteristic of a particular human society






33. Social honor or respect






34. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






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






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






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






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






39. The process of the mechanization of production






40. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture






41. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language






42. Yield per person per unit of land






43. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited






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






45. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






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






47. 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






48. Yield per person per hour of labor invested






49. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand






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