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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Values
Productive Resources
Efficiency
Archeology
2. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Foraging
Cultural Relativism
Norms
Potlatch
3. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Ethnography
Sociolinguistics
Chronemics
Etic
4. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Negative Reciprocity
Conventionality
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Forensic Anthropology
5. Yield per person per unit of land
Productivity
Ethnobotany
Syntax
Ecological Functionalism
6. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Symbol
Reciprocity
Ethnobotany
Applied Anthropology
7. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Capitalism
Ecological Functionalism
Redistribution
Potlatch
8. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Phonology
Cargo System
Human Relations Area Files
Ethnobotany
9. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Productivity Linguistics
Culture
Interpretive Anthropology
Ethnobotany
10. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Cultural Anthropology
Innovation
Ethnography
Proxemics
11. The total stock of words in a language
Chronemics
Horticulture
Lexicon
Phoneme
12. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Conventionality
Industrialism
Transhumant Pastoralism
Morphology
13. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze
Ethnography
Interpretive Anthropology
Emic
Kinesics
14. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Historical Particularism
Peasants
Cognitive Anthropology
Ethnoscape
15. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Reciprocity
Swidden Cultivation
Syntax
Economic System
16. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Kinesics
Core Vocabulary
Potlatch
Plasticity
17. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Peasants
Prestige
Leveling Mechanism
Agriculture
18. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Chronemics
Population Density
Haptics
Agriculture
19. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Market Exchange
Primatology
Capitalism
Universal Grammar
20. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Culture and Personality
Redistribution
Emic
Subculture
21. 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
Subculture
Society
Symbol
Foraging
22. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Proxemics
Human Relations Area Files
Phonology
Artifacts
23. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Allophones
Ethnoscape
Applied Anthropology
Culture and Personality
24. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Productivity Linguistics
Transhumant Pastoralism
Globalization
Economic System
25. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Agriculture
Call System
Human Paleontology
Historical Particularism
26. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Proxemics
Holism
Collaborative Ethnography
Population Density
27. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Ethnoscape
Capitalism
Functionalism
Household
28. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Balanced Reciprocity
Ethnobotany
Great Vowel Shift
Collaborative Ethnography
29. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Syntax
Globalization
Ethnoscape
Potlatch
30. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Call System
Nomadic Pastoralism
Forensic Anthropology
Phonology
31. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Balanced Reciprocity
Peasants
Subsistence Strategies
Ecological Functionalism
32. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Great Vowel Shift
Pastoralism
Reciprocity
Syntax
33. 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
Phoneme
Phone
Society
Balanced Reciprocity
34. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Symbol
Cargo System
Etic
Archeology
35. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Code Switching
Capitalism
Generalized Reciprocity
Isolating Language
36. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Isolating Language
Society
Foraging
Anthropological Linguistics
37. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Ecological Functionalism
Anthropological Theory
Economic System
Negative Reciprocity
38. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Displacement
Symbolic Anthropology
Organic Analogy
Ethnography
39. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Firm
Innovation
Reciprocity
Peasants
40. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Interpretive Anthropology
Archeology
Transhumant Pastoralism
Economic System
41. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Economics
Cultural Relativism
Great Vowel Shift
Subsistence Strategies
42. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Universal Grammar
Applied Anthropology
Economics
Participant Observation
43. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Interpretive Anthropology
Symbol
Economic System
Postmodernism
44. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Glottochronogy
Enculturation
Innovation
Cargo System
45. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Comparative Linguistics
Isolating Language
Forensic Anthropology
Phoneme
46. A system of creating words from sounds
Ecological Functionalism
Proxemics
Collaborative Ethnography
Morphology
47. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Human Paleontology
Swidden Cultivation
Phone
Potlatch
48. The process of the mechanization of production
Anthropological Theory
Industrialism
Globalization
Allophones
49. The analysis and study of touch
Peasants
Haptics
Transhumant Pastoralism
Functionalism
50. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Symbol
Haptics
Syntax
Capital
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