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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures






2. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people






3. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available






4. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected






5. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings






6. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context






7. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives






8. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)






9. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information






10. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history






11. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena






12. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available






13. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures






14. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains






15. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods






16. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them






17. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society






18. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit






19. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective






20. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding






21. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate






22. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans






23. The analysis and study of touch






24. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors






25. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world






26. Yield per person per hour of labor invested






27. The process of the mechanization of production






28. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain






29. The comparison of societies to living organisms






30. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture






31. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present






32. The total stock of words in a language






33. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease






34. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts






35. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics






36. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group






37. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language






38. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture






39. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families






40. 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






41. A system of creating words from sounds






42. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space






43. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand






44. Yield per person per hour of labor invested






45. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language






46. The study of language and its relation to culture






47. A system of creating words from sounds






48. Social honor or respect






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






50. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600