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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications






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






3. 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






4. The comparison of societies to living organisms






5. Yield per person per hour of labor invested






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






7. Focuses on identifying general laws that identify different elements of society - show how they relate to each other - and demonstrate their role in maintaining social order






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






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






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






11. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture






12. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information






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






14. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society






21. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society






22. 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






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






24. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms






25. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves






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






27. 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






28. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society






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






30. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves






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






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






33. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600






34. The study of language and its relation to culture






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






36. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand






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






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






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






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






41. The total stock of words in a language






42. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world






43. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages






44. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)






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






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






47. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures






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






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






50. 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