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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information






2. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages






3. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains






4. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves






5. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society






6. Social honor or respect






7. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals






8. The process of the mechanization of production






9. 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






10. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them






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






12. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth






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






14. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture






15. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages






16. A mutual give and take among people of equal status






17. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society






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






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






20. Judging other cultures from the perspective of ones own culture; the notion that ones own culture is more beautiful - rational - and nearer to perfection than any other






21. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork






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






23. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society






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






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






26. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures






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






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






29. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network






30. 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






31. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies






32. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze






33. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language






34. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices






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






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






37. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze






38. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices






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






40. The comparison of societies to living organisms






41. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures






42. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures






43. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems






44. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages






45. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture






46. The analysis and study of touch






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






48. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members






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






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







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