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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Postmodernism
Ethnocentrism
Etic
Pastoralism
2. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Postmodernism
Division of Labor
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Culture Shock
3. 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
Generalized Reciprocity
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Enculturation
Culture and Personality
4. 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
Ethnomedicine
Symbol
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Morphology
5. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Displacement
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Negative Reciprocity
Redistribution
6. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Innovation
Chronemics
Ethnoscience
Conventionality
7. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Isolating Language
Enculturation
Holism
Leveling Mechanism
8. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Syntax
Reciprocity
Isolating Language
Symbolic Anthropology
9. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Ethnography
Subsistence Strategies
Ethnology
Semantics
10. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Reciprocity
Sociolinguistics
Ethnoscape
Conventionality
11. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Innovation
Lexicon
Minimal Pair
Isolating Language
12. The analysis and study of touch
Economic System
Human Relations Area Files
Division of Labor
Haptics
13. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Cultural Relativism
Forensic Anthropology
Agriculture
Reciprocity
14. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Capitalism
Productivity Linguistics
Organic Analogy
Human Paleontology
15. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Archeology
Dominant Culture
Subculture
16. The study of language and its relation to culture
Chronemics
Ethnoscience
Enculturation
Anthropological Linguistics
17. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Comparative Linguistics
Productivity Linguistics
Great Vowel Shift
Capitalism
18. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Ethnography
Potlatch
Ethnology
Productive Resources
19. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Cultural Anthropology
Cargo System
Ethnocentrism
Ethnobotany
20. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Adaptation
Core Vocabulary
Household
Participant Observation
21. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Agriculture
Minimal Pair
Nomadic Pastoralism
Glottochronogy
22. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Dominant Culture
Market Exchange
Ethnomedicine
Ethnobotany
23. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Great Vowel Shift
Capitalism
Negative Reciprocity
Semantics
24. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Phone
Redistribution
Universal Grammar
Economics
25. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Phonology
Lexicon
Ethnoscience
Organic Analogy
26. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Swidden Cultivation
Proxemics
Adaptation
Primatology
27. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Capitalism
Semantics
Lexicon
Division of Labor
28. 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
Transhumant Pastoralism
Economics
Subsistence Strategies
Symbol
29. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Cultural Ecology
Ecological Functionalism
Symbolic Anthropology
Informant
30. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Economic System
Capital
Dominant Culture
Postmodernism
31. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Syntax
Potlatch
Archeology
Market Exchange
32. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Symbolic Anthropology
Negative Reciprocity
Subsistence Strategies
Generalized Reciprocity
33. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Innovation
Syntax
Prestige
Culture and Personality
34. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Applied Anthropology
Functionalism
Capitalism
35. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Pastoralism
Peasants
Ethnoscape
Symbol
36. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Organic Analogy
Haptics
Negative Reciprocity
Prestige
37. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Postmodernism
Capital
Haptics
Cultural Anthropology
38. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Economic System
Capital
Symbolic Anthropology
Foraging
39. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Ethnoscape
Nomadic Pastoralism
Forensic Anthropology
Generalized Reciprocity
40. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Code Switching
Balanced Reciprocity
Industrialism
Symbol
41. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Adaptation
Isolating Language
Agriculture
Potlatch
42. 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
Anthropological Theory
Cargo System
Leveling Mechanism
Innovation
43. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Racism
Organic Analogy
Innovation
Household
44. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Emic
Phonology
Negative Reciprocity
Participant Observation
45. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Efficiency
Historical Particularism
Semantics
Ethnoscape
46. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Peasants
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Primatology
Plasticity
47. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Dominant Culture
Morphology
Capitalism
Great Vowel Shift
48. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Ecological Functionalism
Foraging
Artifacts
Society
49. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Cultural Relativism
Call System
Artifacts
Horticulture
50. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Pastoralism
Proxemics
Morpheme
Code Switching