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Cultural Anthropology
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1. 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
Culture and Personality
Ethnoscience
Economics
Globalization
2. 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
Adaptation
Participant Observation
Organic Analogy
Subculture
3. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Economics
Ethnoscience
Anthropological Theory
Semantics
4. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Market Exchange
Core Vocabulary
Forensic Anthropology
Generalized Reciprocity
5. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Call System
Negative Reciprocity
Potlatch
Enculturation
6. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Great Vowel Shift
Productivity Linguistics
Norms
Ethnoscape
7. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Morpheme
Capitalism
Swidden Cultivation
Diffusion
8. 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
Plasticity
Anthropological Theory
Society
Leveling Mechanism
9. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Interpretive Anthropology
Cargo System
Archeology
Cognitive Anthropology
10. Social honor or respect
Agglutinating Language
Transhumant Pastoralism
Prestige
Displacement
11. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Artifacts
Ecological Functionalism
Human Relations Area Files
Ethnoscape
12. A theoretical position in anthropology that held that cultures could best be understood by examining the patterns of child rearing and considering their effect on adult lives and social institutions
Cultural Ecology
Culture and Personality
Applied Anthropology
Symbol
13. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Applied Anthropology
Anthropological Linguistics
Nomadic Pastoralism
Code Switching
14. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Subculture
Morphology
Transhumant Pastoralism
Productivity Linguistics
15. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Ethnography
Isolating Language
Phoneme
Capital
16. 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
Displacement
Globalization
Core Vocabulary
Redistribution
17. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Agglutinating Language
Plasticity
Minimal Pair
Diffusion
18. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Anthropological Theory
Call System
Economics
Pastoralism
19. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Universal Grammar
Ecological Functionalism
Archeology
Core Vocabulary
20. The analysis and study of touch
Chronemics
Glottochronogy
Haptics
Agglutinating Language
21. 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
Allophones
Potlatch
Agglutinating Language
Culture
22. 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
Globalization
Division of Labor
Cargo System
Functionalism
23. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Productivity
Artifacts
Kinesics
Innovation
24. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Ecological Functionalism
Productive Resources
Nomadic Pastoralism
Cultural Relativism
25. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Racism
Capitalism
Population Density
Leveling Mechanism
26. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Globalization
Applied Anthropology
Potlatch
Foraging
27. A theoretical position in anthropology that held that cultures could best be understood by examining the patterns of child rearing and considering their effect on adult lives and social institutions
Transhumant Pastoralism
Norms
Culture and Personality
Reciprocity
28. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Universal Grammar
Reciprocity
Comparative Linguistics
Population Density
29. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Morphology
Capital
Participant Observation
Conventionality
30. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Semantics
Participant Observation
Horticulture
Great Vowel Shift
31. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Anthropological Linguistics
Foraging
Interpretive Anthropology
Ecological Functionalism
32. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Cargo System
Minimal Pair
Cultural Anthropology
Universal Grammar
33. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Isolating Language
Glottochronogy
Capitalism
Emic
34. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Conventionality
Ethnology
Anthropological Theory
Subculture
35. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Population Density
Agglutinating Language
Glottochronogy
Innovation
36. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Morpheme
Functionalism
Potlatch
Culture Shock
37. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Culture Shock
Cultural Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Balanced Reciprocity
38. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Phoneme
Ethnoscience
Prestige
Morpheme
39. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Productivity
Morpheme
Adaptation
Cultural Anthropology
40. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Potlatch
Leveling Mechanism
Cargo System
Collaborative Ethnography
41. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Enculturation
Pastoralism
Ethnocentrism
Leveling Mechanism
42. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Core Vocabulary
Negative Reciprocity
Participant Observation
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
43. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Market Exchange
Etic
Morpheme
Potlatch
44. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Lexicon
Holism
Globalization
45. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Economic System
Foraging
Reciprocity
Cognitive Anthropology
46. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Morphology
Prestige
Minimal Pair
Phoneme
47. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Culture
Minimal Pair
Enculturation
48. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Phone
Ethnocentrism
Phoneme
Code Switching
49. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Pastoralism
Culture Shock
Comparative Linguistics
Emic
50. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Call System
Functionalism
Household
Market Exchange