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Cultural Anthropology
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1. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Displacement
Culture Shock
Cultural Anthropology
Globalization
2. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Market Exchange
Division of Labor
Leveling Mechanism
Redistribution
3. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Agriculture
Swidden Cultivation
Foraging
Postmodernism
4. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Reciprocity
Market Exchange
Allophones
Agriculture
5. A system of creating words from sounds
Pastoralism
Values
Morphology
Symbolic Anthropology
6. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Capitalism
Postmodernism
Prestige
Cultural Relativism
7. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society
Conventionality
Racism
Holism
Horticulture
8. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Great Vowel Shift
Ethnoscience
Economic System
Allophones
9. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Agglutinating Language
Emic
Displacement
Lexicon
10. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Anthropological Linguistics
Interpretive Anthropology
Division of Labor
Nomadic Pastoralism
11. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Peasants
Firm
Proxemics
Racism
12. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Enculturation
Swidden Cultivation
Productivity
Efficiency
13. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Emic
Ethnography
Agglutinating Language
Capital
14. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Peasants
Negative Reciprocity
Cultural Anthropology
Etic
15. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Human Paleontology
Code Switching
Cognitive Anthropology
Kinesics
16. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Generalized Reciprocity
Postmodernism
Plasticity
Ecological Functionalism
17. The sound system of a language
Potlatch
Organic Analogy
Phonology
Symbol
18. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Universal Grammar
Allophones
Norms
Society
19. Social honor or respect
Prestige
Anthropological Linguistics
Market Exchange
Subculture
20. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Swidden Cultivation
Division of Labor
Subculture
Historical Particularism
21. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Population Density
Morpheme
Symbolic Anthropology
Ethnology
22. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Innovation
Ecological Functionalism
Dominant Culture
Forensic Anthropology
23. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Allophones
Cultural Relativism
Culture Shock
Ethnomedicine
24. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Applied Anthropology
Firm
Phonology
Core Vocabulary
25. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Ethnology
Call System
Applied Anthropology
Chronemics
26. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Leveling Mechanism
Call System
Applied Anthropology
Population Density
27. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Displacement
Artifacts
Generalized Reciprocity
Cultural Relativism
28. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Sociolinguistics
Productive Resources
Generalized Reciprocity
Code Switching
29. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Collaborative Ethnography
Market Exchange
Symbol
Transhumant Pastoralism
30. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Human Paleontology
Redistribution
Redistribution
Informant
31. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Lexicon
Culture
Ethnoscience
Potlatch
32. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Values
Productivity
Collaborative Ethnography
Negative Reciprocity
33. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Ethnology
Organic Analogy
Negative Reciprocity
Ecological Functionalism
34. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society
Holism
Nomadic Pastoralism
Anthropological Linguistics
Pastoralism
35. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Holism
Primatology
Productive Resources
Transhumant Pastoralism
36. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Ethnoscience
Ethnocentrism
Symbolic Anthropology
Call System
37. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Lexicon
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Capital
Nomadic Pastoralism
38. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Globalization
Dominant Culture
Racism
Participant Observation
39. 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
Productivity
Diffusion
Ethnomedicine
Subsistence Strategies
40. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Ethnocentrism
Symbol
Morpheme
Balanced Reciprocity
41. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Globalization
Postmodernism
Economics
Minimal Pair
42. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Organic Analogy
Cultural Ecology
Productivity Linguistics
Morpheme
43. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Cultural Ecology
Call System
Prestige
Swidden Cultivation
44. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Capital
Industrialism
Phoneme
45. The sound system of a language
Applied Anthropology
Phonology
Racism
Firm
46. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Historical Particularism
Division of Labor
Participant Observation
Ethnology
47. A system of creating words from sounds
Morphology
Cultural Ecology
Etic
Functionalism
48. 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
Haptics
Adaptation
Symbol
Norms
49. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Haptics
Historical Particularism
Anthropological Theory
Emic
50. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Allophones
Cognitive Anthropology
Conventionality
Allophones