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Cultural Anthropology
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1. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Call System
Economics
Norms
Productivity
2. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Capital
Household
Culture
Culture Shock
3. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Core Vocabulary
Capital
Values
Displacement
4. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Negative Reciprocity
Norms
Displacement
Glottochronogy
5. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Haptics
Innovation
Symbol
Division of Labor
6. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Cargo System
Kinesics
Organic Analogy
Firm
7. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Postmodernism
Potlatch
Transhumant Pastoralism
Isolating Language
8. The total stock of words in a language
Adaptation
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Lexicon
Symbolic Anthropology
9. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Isolating Language
Allophones
Values
Society
10. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Adaptation
Primatology
Cultural Relativism
Ecological Functionalism
11. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Population Density
Productivity Linguistics
Diffusion
Morphology
12. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Cultural Ecology
Minimal Pair
Values
Informant
13. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Haptics
Firm
Organic Analogy
Efficiency
14. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Postmodernism
Plasticity
Household
Diffusion
15. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Proxemics
Society
Human Paleontology
Transhumant Pastoralism
16. The study of language and its relation to culture
Cargo System
Nomadic Pastoralism
Anthropological Linguistics
Generalized Reciprocity
17. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Society
Cargo System
Transhumant Pastoralism
Allophones
18. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Cognitive Anthropology
Subsistence Strategies
Racism
Isolating Language
19. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Racism
Chronemics
Cognitive Anthropology
Household
20. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Reciprocity
Economics
Division of Labor
Glottochronogy
21. 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
Morphology
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Minimal Pair
22. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Adaptation
Diffusion
Culture
Household
23. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Dominant Culture
Lexicon
Nomadic Pastoralism
Capital
24. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Diffusion
Leveling Mechanism
Morpheme
Ethnobotany
25. 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
Applied Anthropology
Household
Capital
Anthropological Theory
26. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Functionalism
Artifacts
Code Switching
Ethnology
27. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Society
Diffusion
Ethnology
Physical/Biological Anthropology
28. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Productivity
Cultural Ecology
Conventionality
Informant
29. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Lexicon
Etic
Ecological Functionalism
Core Vocabulary
30. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Interpretive Anthropology
Cultural Relativism
Pastoralism
Transhumant Pastoralism
31. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Great Vowel Shift
Cognitive Anthropology
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Conventionality
32. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Displacement
Population Density
Human Paleontology
Market Exchange
33. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Great Vowel Shift
Culture and Personality
Nomadic Pastoralism
Human Relations Area Files
34. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Symbolic Anthropology
Leveling Mechanism
Cognitive Anthropology
Potlatch
35. The total stock of words in a language
Enculturation
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Displacement
Lexicon
36. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Plasticity
Economic System
Transhumant Pastoralism
Conventionality
37. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Economic System
Values
Functionalism
Firm
38. The study of language and its relation to culture
Anthropological Linguistics
Leveling Mechanism
Emic
Population Density
39. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Enculturation
Potlatch
Proxemics
Plasticity
40. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Culture and Personality
Plasticity
Morphology
Transhumant Pastoralism
41. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Efficiency
Norms
Organic Analogy
Chronemics
42. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Reciprocity
Haptics
Cultural Ecology
Anthropological Linguistics
43. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Negative Reciprocity
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Comparative Linguistics
Primatology
44. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Market Exchange
Productivity Linguistics
Phone
Etic
45. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Prestige
Isolating Language
Proxemics
Household
46. A system of creating words from sounds
Firm
Productive Resources
Morphology
Culture
47. 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
Archeology
Culture
Innovation
Emic
48. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures
Human Relations Area Files
Symbol
Productivity Linguistics
Norms
49. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Capitalism
Ethnobotany
Code Switching
Household
50. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Syntax
Haptics
Participant Observation
Cognitive Anthropology