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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Allophones
Glottochronogy
Leveling Mechanism
Haptics
2. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Participant Observation
Cognitive Anthropology
Symbol
Phonology
3. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures
Forensic Anthropology
Human Relations Area Files
Emic
Productive Resources
4. The total stock of words in a language
Glottochronogy
Phone
Haptics
Lexicon
5. 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
Human Relations Area Files
Capital
Agriculture
Ethnocentrism
6. 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
Peasants
Redistribution
Culture and Personality
Pastoralism
7. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Code Switching
Ethnology
Pastoralism
Universal Grammar
8. 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
Leveling Mechanism
Syntax
Anthropological Theory
Kinesics
9. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Conventionality
Ethnobotany
Firm
Pastoralism
10. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Cultural Relativism
Dominant Culture
Semantics
Minimal Pair
11. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Society
Cultural Anthropology
Adaptation
Glottochronogy
12. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Ethnobotany
Core Vocabulary
Negative Reciprocity
Phonology
13. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Chronemics
Foraging
Dominant Culture
Emic
14. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Comparative Linguistics
Industrialism
Core Vocabulary
Artifacts
15. 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
Ethnology
Culture
Norms
Society
16. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Redistribution
Chronemics
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnography
17. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Nomadic Pastoralism
Informant
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Balanced Reciprocity
18. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Holism
Morpheme
Phone
Ethnobotany
19. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Norms
Enculturation
Participant Observation
Capitalism
20. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Dominant Culture
Primatology
Foraging
Capital
21. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Ethnography
Isolating Language
Holism
Call System
22. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Transhumant Pastoralism
Archeology
Allophones
Negative Reciprocity
23. 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
Productivity
Syntax
Norms
Ethnomedicine
24. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Cargo System
Functionalism
Forensic Anthropology
Haptics
25. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Culture
Subsistence Strategies
Ethnoscience
Call System
26. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Artifacts
Norms
Leveling Mechanism
Generalized Reciprocity
27. 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
Culture
Phone
Cargo System
Culture Shock
28. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Code Switching
Racism
Collaborative Ethnography
Agglutinating Language
29. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Phoneme
Kinesics
Leveling Mechanism
Ethnography
30. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Reciprocity
Historical Particularism
Subculture
31. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Syntax
Ethnoscape
Archeology
Agglutinating Language
32. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Agriculture
Ethnobotany
Generalized Reciprocity
Adaptation
33. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Holism
Subsistence Strategies
Comparative Linguistics
Core Vocabulary
34. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Horticulture
Etic
Chronemics
Ethnography
35. 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
Participant Observation
Ethnomedicine
Population Density
Call System
36. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Universal Grammar
Etic
Code Switching
Efficiency
37. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Productive Resources
Ethnobotany
Sociolinguistics
Cultural Ecology
38. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Proxemics
Morpheme
Industrialism
Capital
39. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Symbolic Anthropology
Forensic Anthropology
Values
Collaborative Ethnography
40. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Haptics
Applied Anthropology
Plasticity
Ecological Functionalism
41. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Transhumant Pastoralism
Capitalism
Swidden Cultivation
Semantics
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
Economics
Cargo System
Minimal Pair
Kinesics
43. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Minimal Pair
Potlatch
Negative Reciprocity
Lexicon
44. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Great Vowel Shift
Globalization
Cultural Relativism
Productive Resources
45. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Archeology
Great Vowel Shift
Informant
Productive Resources
46. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Call System
Semantics
Code Switching
Core Vocabulary
47. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Prestige
Participant Observation
Transhumant Pastoralism
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
48. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Redistribution
Haptics
Haptics
Syntax
49. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Ethnobotany
Organic Analogy
Norms
Haptics
50. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Syntax
Human Paleontology
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Prestige