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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






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






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






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






5. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society






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






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






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






9. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another






10. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment






11. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush






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






13. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork






14. 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






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






16. The process of the mechanization of production






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






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






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






20. The smallest unit of language that has meanings






21. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture






22. 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






23. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms






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






25. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture






26. 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






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






28. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another






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






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






31. A system of creating words from sounds






32. The comparison of societies to living organisms






33. 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






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






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






36. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful






37. The study of language and its relation to culture






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






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






40. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages






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






42. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications






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






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






45. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space






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






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






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






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






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