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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Ecological Functionalism
Prestige
Universal Grammar
Allophones
2. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Balanced Reciprocity
Cognitive Anthropology
Leveling Mechanism
Physical/Biological Anthropology
3. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Minimal Pair
Capital
Interpretive Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
4. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Postmodernism
Agriculture
Call System
Isolating Language
5. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Subsistence Strategies
Call System
Primatology
Universal Grammar
6. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Norms
Functionalism
Morphology
Generalized Reciprocity
7. Yield per person per unit of land
Population Density
Productivity
Code Switching
Semantics
8. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Ecology
Agglutinating Language
Horticulture
9. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Firm
Ethnology
Norms
Culture Shock
10. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Culture and Personality
Society
Capital
Ethnobotany
11. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Cultural Ecology
Ethnoscience
Etic
Isolating Language
12. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Generalized Reciprocity
Ethnocentrism
Potlatch
Ecological Functionalism
13. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Displacement
Etic
Interpretive Anthropology
Symbol
14. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Cultural Relativism
Cognitive Anthropology
Pastoralism
Enculturation
15. 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
Interpretive Anthropology
Ethnology
Culture
Functionalism
16. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Cultural Anthropology
Society
Code Switching
Proxemics
17. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Foraging
Agglutinating Language
Allophones
Capitalism
18. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Forensic Anthropology
Universal Grammar
Division of Labor
Efficiency
19. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Division of Labor
Anthropological Theory
Racism
Capitalism
20. 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
Redistribution
Conventionality
Isolating Language
Cognitive Anthropology
21. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Industrialism
Capital
Plasticity
Phone
22. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Values
Firm
Dominant Culture
Innovation
23. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Peasants
Chronemics
Minimal Pair
Racism
24. 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
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Adaptation
Culture Shock
Generalized Reciprocity
25. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Forensic Anthropology
Diffusion
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Productivity
26. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Society
Ethnography
Negative Reciprocity
Ethnology
27. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Culture
Dominant Culture
Collaborative Ethnography
Code Switching
28. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Norms
Negative Reciprocity
Subculture
Glottochronogy
29. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Phoneme
Participant Observation
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Society
30. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Foraging
Society
Agriculture
Ethnobotany
31. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Great Vowel Shift
Firm
Forensic Anthropology
Agriculture
32. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Proxemics
Culture and Personality
Leveling Mechanism
Balanced Reciprocity
33. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Human Paleontology
Morpheme
Ethnology
Universal Grammar
34. The total stock of words in a language
Lexicon
Ethnology
Negative Reciprocity
Semantics
35. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Interpretive Anthropology
Population Density
Anthropological Theory
Nomadic Pastoralism
36. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Balanced Reciprocity
Globalization
Ecological Functionalism
Foraging
37. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Collaborative Ethnography
Subsistence Strategies
Agriculture
Ethnography
38. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Morpheme
Cultural Ecology
Capital
Culture
39. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Semantics
Potlatch
Agriculture
Generalized Reciprocity
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
Postmodernism
Prestige
Holism
Industrialism
41. 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
Participant Observation
Proxemics
Balanced Reciprocity
Culture
42. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Globalization
Ethnomedicine
Morphology
Cargo System
43. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Agriculture
Culture Shock
Transhumant Pastoralism
Division of Labor
44. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Productivity
Diffusion
Horticulture
Symbol
45. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Anthropological Linguistics
Dominant Culture
Cognitive Anthropology
Forensic Anthropology
46. 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
Adaptation
Economics
Negative Reciprocity
Archeology
47. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Morphology
Ethnoscape
Firm
Diffusion
48. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society
Symbolic Anthropology
Plasticity
Primatology
Holism
49. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Symbol
Prestige
Division of Labor
Balanced Reciprocity
50. Yield per person per unit of land
Prestige
Postmodernism
Productivity
Agriculture