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Cultural Anthropology
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1. The study of language and its relation to culture
Morphology
Anthropological Theory
Glottochronogy
Anthropological Linguistics
2. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Reciprocity
Pastoralism
Haptics
Isolating Language
3. 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
Anthropological Linguistics
Adaptation
Subsistence Strategies
Sociolinguistics
4. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Agriculture
Enculturation
Efficiency
Generalized Reciprocity
5. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Call System
Symbol
Interpretive Anthropology
Society
6. 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
Efficiency
Holism
Haptics
7. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Primatology
Holism
Racism
Ethnoscape
8. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Historical Particularism
Ethnomedicine
Nomadic Pastoralism
Code Switching
9. 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
Ethnocentrism
Culture and Personality
Subculture
Transhumant Pastoralism
10. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Plasticity
Division of Labor
Efficiency
Etic
11. 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
Code Switching
Society
Potlatch
Reciprocity
12. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Emic
Glottochronogy
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Lexicon
13. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Artifacts
Household
Norms
Dominant Culture
14. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Peasants
Productivity
Syntax
Ethnology
15. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Ethnoscape
Interpretive Anthropology
Market Exchange
Cultural Relativism
16. 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
Historical Particularism
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Human Paleontology
17. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Values
Productivity Linguistics
Subsistence Strategies
Household
18. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Foraging
Productivity Linguistics
Norms
Cultural Relativism
19. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Holism
Chronemics
Productivity Linguistics
Economic System
20. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Anthropological Theory
Functionalism
Ethnobotany
Innovation
21. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Ethnoscience
Plasticity
Call System
Efficiency
22. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Phoneme
Comparative Linguistics
Dominant Culture
Plasticity
23. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Cognitive Anthropology
Ethnoscience
Informant
Enculturation
24. 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
Prestige
Leveling Mechanism
Anthropological Theory
Postmodernism
25. The total stock of words in a language
Culture and Personality
Glottochronogy
Productive Resources
Lexicon
26. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Phone
Isolating Language
Subculture
Culture and Personality
27. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Values
Foraging
Cultural Anthropology
Racism
28. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Racism
Division of Labor
Collaborative Ethnography
Household
29. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Cultural Relativism
Productive Resources
Symbolic Anthropology
Leveling Mechanism
30. The total stock of words in a language
Emic
Lexicon
Prestige
Great Vowel Shift
31. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Racism
Historical Particularism
Productive Resources
Prestige
32. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Comparative Linguistics
Phonology
Ethnoscape
Anthropological Linguistics
33. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Organic Analogy
Universal Grammar
Agglutinating Language
Reciprocity
34. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Displacement
Horticulture
Human Relations Area Files
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
35. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Potlatch
Phone
Foraging
Division of Labor
36. 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
Division of Labor
Peasants
Nomadic Pastoralism
Redistribution
37. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Subculture
Plasticity
Emic
38. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures
Human Relations Area Files
Capital
Morpheme
Historical Particularism
39. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Proxemics
Great Vowel Shift
Potlatch
Core Vocabulary
40. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Foraging
Norms
Productivity Linguistics
Glottochronogy
41. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Anthropological Theory
Reciprocity
Cultural Anthropology
Call System
42. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Symbol
Population Density
Negative Reciprocity
Etic
43. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Productivity
Collaborative Ethnography
Informant
Primatology
44. 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
Anthropological Linguistics
Ethnology
Economics
Archeology
45. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Allophones
Values
Great Vowel Shift
Proxemics
46. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Subsistence Strategies
Emic
Household
Ethnoscience
47. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Primatology
Negative Reciprocity
Economic System
Reciprocity
48. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Haptics
Participant Observation
Transhumant Pastoralism
Productivity Linguistics
49. 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
Postmodernism
Artifacts
Redistribution
Functionalism
50. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Potlatch
Racism
Generalized Reciprocity
Agriculture