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Cultural Anthropology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Isolating Language
Prestige
Swidden Cultivation
Agriculture
2. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Horticulture
Economic System
Peasants
Plasticity
3. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Culture
Generalized Reciprocity
Phoneme
Agriculture
4. 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
Values
Nomadic Pastoralism
Chronemics
5. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Universal Grammar
Anthropological Linguistics
Functionalism
Minimal Pair
6. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Enculturation
Artifacts
Cargo System
Redistribution
7. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Culture and Personality
Economic System
Household
Phoneme
8. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Code Switching
Semantics
Redistribution
Allophones
9. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Household
Capital
Phone
Balanced Reciprocity
10. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Ethnomedicine
Morphology
Postmodernism
Displacement
11. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Semantics
Core Vocabulary
Ecological Functionalism
Organic Analogy
12. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Generalized Reciprocity
Balanced Reciprocity
Horticulture
Innovation
13. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Prestige
Leveling Mechanism
Peasants
Pastoralism
14. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Participant Observation
Subsistence Strategies
Historical Particularism
Call System
15. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Haptics
Transhumant Pastoralism
Glottochronogy
Efficiency
16. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Redistribution
Call System
Dominant Culture
Ethnography
17. 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
Cultural Relativism
Symbol
Racism
18. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Great Vowel Shift
Isolating Language
Emic
Comparative Linguistics
19. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Capital
Emic
Organic Analogy
Participant Observation
20. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Archeology
Ethnobotany
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Horticulture
21. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Collaborative Ethnography
Universal Grammar
Kinesics
Adaptation
22. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Culture and Personality
Anthropological Linguistics
Potlatch
Historical Particularism
23. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Foraging
Adaptation
Morpheme
Ethnobotany
24. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Racism
Forensic Anthropology
Norms
Population Density
25. 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
Sociolinguistics
Functionalism
Efficiency
Cognitive Anthropology
26. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Market Exchange
Informant
Symbol
Morphology
27. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Cognitive Anthropology
Ethnobotany
Ethnomedicine
Culture
28. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Capitalism
Plasticity
Syntax
Ethnoscience
29. Social honor or respect
Symbol
Ecological Functionalism
Culture and Personality
Prestige
30. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Globalization
Phonology
Allophones
Ecological Functionalism
31. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Adaptation
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Productive Resources
Economic System
32. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Productive Resources
Cognitive Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Great Vowel Shift
33. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Productivity
Glottochronogy
Capital
Cultural Ecology
34. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Great Vowel Shift
Functionalism
Transhumant Pastoralism
Glottochronogy
35. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Collaborative Ethnography
Culture and Personality
Ethnomedicine
Etic
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
Informant
Haptics
Redistribution
Forensic Anthropology
37. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Economic System
Productivity Linguistics
Cargo System
Forensic Anthropology
38. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Society
Globalization
Artifacts
Division of Labor
39. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Peasants
Ethnoscience
Capitalism
Phoneme
40. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Diffusion
Foraging
Phone
Ethnology
41. 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
Enculturation
Ethnomedicine
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Cargo System
42. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Interpretive Anthropology
Negative Reciprocity
Core Vocabulary
Participant Observation
43. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Capital
Dominant Culture
Primatology
Great Vowel Shift
44. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Dominant Culture
Culture
Kinesics
45. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Code Switching
Cultural Anthropology
Forensic Anthropology
Reciprocity
46. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Isolating Language
Primatology
Artifacts
47. 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
Symbolic Anthropology
Potlatch
Industrialism
Society
48. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Values
Holism
Organic Analogy
Participant Observation
49. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Glottochronogy
Diffusion
Comparative Linguistics
Adaptation
50. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Postmodernism
Anthropological Theory
Anthropological Linguistics
Capital