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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Division of Labor
Conventionality
Norms
Etic
2. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Racism
Diffusion
Ethnoscape
Transhumant Pastoralism
3. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Lexicon
Capital
Balanced Reciprocity
Call System
4. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Primatology
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Cargo System
Ethnography
5. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Comparative Linguistics
Ethnology
Agriculture
Holism
6. 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
Ethnocentrism
Firm
Code Switching
Displacement
7. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Ethnography
Agriculture
Capital
Interpretive Anthropology
8. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Firm
Agriculture
Semantics
Emic
9. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Division of Labor
Ethnology
Interpretive Anthropology
Potlatch
10. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Universal Grammar
Household
Industrialism
Sociolinguistics
11. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Dominant Culture
Informant
Ecological Functionalism
Efficiency
12. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Subculture
Agglutinating Language
Swidden Cultivation
Emic
13. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Isolating Language
Firm
Ethnology
Great Vowel Shift
14. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Artifacts
Prestige
Haptics
Negative Reciprocity
15. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Ethnology
Universal Grammar
Productive Resources
Agriculture
16. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures
Culture Shock
Ethnomedicine
Human Relations Area Files
Ethnography
17. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Dominant Culture
Reciprocity
Allophones
Negative Reciprocity
18. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Great Vowel Shift
Primatology
Ethnomedicine
Cargo System
19. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Core Vocabulary
Haptics
Isolating Language
Capitalism
20. The process of the mechanization of production
Industrialism
Balanced Reciprocity
Agglutinating Language
Symbolic Anthropology
21. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Cargo System
Core Vocabulary
Household
Ethnoscience
22. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Ethnomedicine
Globalization
Norms
Agriculture
23. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Innovation
Displacement
Culture and Personality
Prestige
24. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Society
Economic System
Reciprocity
Redistribution
25. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Globalization
Forensic Anthropology
Adaptation
Forensic Anthropology
26. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Archeology
Globalization
Globalization
Firm
27. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Collaborative Ethnography
Peasants
Diffusion
Physical/Biological Anthropology
28. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Holism
Enculturation
Firm
Market Exchange
29. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Industrialism
Minimal Pair
Participant Observation
Universal Grammar
30. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Code Switching
Industrialism
Symbolic Anthropology
Displacement
31. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Generalized Reciprocity
Swidden Cultivation
Morpheme
Efficiency
32. A change in the biological structure of lifeways of an individual or population by which it becomes better fitted to survive and reproduce in its environment
Conventionality
Glottochronogy
Adaptation
Horticulture
33. A change in the biological structure of lifeways of an individual or population by which it becomes better fitted to survive and reproduce in its environment
Great Vowel Shift
Adaptation
Forensic Anthropology
Dominant Culture
34. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Forensic Anthropology
Reciprocity
Subculture
Reciprocity
35. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Emic
Culture
Ethnoscience
Capitalism
36. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Symbol
Swidden Cultivation
Informant
Kinesics
37. 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
Ethnoscience
Economics
Cultural Relativism
Culture
38. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Subsistence Strategies
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Relativism
Sociolinguistics
39. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Cognitive Anthropology
Efficiency
Holism
Cultural Ecology
40. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Pastoralism
Negative Reciprocity
Subsistence Strategies
Postmodernism
41. Yield per person per unit of land
Economics
Informant
Productivity
Productivity Linguistics
42. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnology
Efficiency
Organic Analogy
43. A system of creating words from sounds
Morphology
Division of Labor
Horticulture
Globalization
44. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Core Vocabulary
Balanced Reciprocity
Chronemics
Kinesics
45. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Ethnobotany
Society
Prestige
Dominant Culture
46. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Negative Reciprocity
Dominant Culture
Agriculture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
47. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Ethnocentrism
Market Exchange
Enculturation
Historical Particularism
48. 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
Society
Displacement
Human Relations Area Files
Ethnocentrism
49. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Division of Labor
Interpretive Anthropology
Comparative Linguistics
Minimal Pair
50. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Proxemics
Symbolic Anthropology
Isolating Language
Nomadic Pastoralism