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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Phone
Symbolic Anthropology
Adaptation
Physical/Biological Anthropology
2. The analysis and study of touch
Foraging
Haptics
Dominant Culture
Nomadic Pastoralism
3. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Sociolinguistics
Cognitive Anthropology
Swidden Cultivation
Ethnoscape
4. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Innovation
Population Density
Culture
Displacement
5. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Industrialism
Foraging
Efficiency
Negative Reciprocity
6. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Phoneme
Norms
Semantics
Glottochronogy
7. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Negative Reciprocity
Capitalism
Transhumant Pastoralism
Innovation
8. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Subsistence Strategies
Emic
Artifacts
Population Density
9. 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
Peasants
Primatology
Ethnomedicine
Historical Particularism
10. The sound system of a language
Potlatch
Phonology
Proxemics
Functionalism
11. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Anthropological Theory
Informant
Human Paleontology
Conventionality
12. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Household
Culture Shock
Agglutinating Language
Cultural Anthropology
13. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Emic
Prestige
Informant
Transhumant Pastoralism
14. The study of language and its relation to culture
Morphology
Industrialism
Anthropological Linguistics
Symbol
15. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Culture and Personality
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Anthropological Linguistics
Applied Anthropology
16. 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
Economics
Adaptation
Innovation
Ethnology
17. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Primatology
Organic Analogy
Holism
Forensic Anthropology
18. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Economic System
Adaptation
Ethnobotany
Potlatch
19. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Anthropological Theory
Potlatch
Great Vowel Shift
Lexicon
20. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Productive Resources
Redistribution
Phonology
Conventionality
21. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people
Cultural Anthropology
Reciprocity
Universal Grammar
Interpretive Anthropology
22. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Morpheme
Haptics
Diffusion
Cognitive Anthropology
23. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Postmodernism
Historical Particularism
Market Exchange
Code Switching
24. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Historical Particularism
Society
Balanced Reciprocity
Foraging
25. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Globalization
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Market Exchange
Nomadic Pastoralism
26. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Artifacts
Ethnomedicine
Holism
Subculture
27. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Norms
Reciprocity
Isolating Language
Enculturation
28. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Ethnology
Values
Capital
Horticulture
29. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Negative Reciprocity
Cultural Ecology
Holism
Leveling Mechanism
30. 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
Human Relations Area Files
Ethnomedicine
Generalized Reciprocity
Dominant Culture
31. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Informant
Efficiency
Morphology
Participant Observation
32. 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
Generalized Reciprocity
Norms
Functionalism
Population Density
33. The sound system of a language
Phonology
Morphology
Racism
Minimal Pair
34. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Glottochronogy
Enculturation
Peasants
Potlatch
35. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Call System
Isolating Language
Leveling Mechanism
Anthropological Linguistics
36. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Collaborative Ethnography
Human Paleontology
Conventionality
Syntax
37. 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
Chronemics
Adaptation
Conventionality
Foraging
38. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Cultural Relativism
Ethnoscience
Negative Reciprocity
Foraging
39. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Anthropological Theory
Prestige
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Household
40. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Displacement
Foraging
Haptics
Ethnoscience
41. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Transhumant Pastoralism
Peasants
Dominant Culture
Organic Analogy
42. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Comparative Linguistics
Capitalism
Human Paleontology
Racism
43. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Kinesics
Core Vocabulary
Displacement
Glottochronogy
44. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Emic
Morpheme
Ethnoscape
Ethnoscience
45. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Semantics
Market Exchange
Ethnology
Kinesics
46. A system of creating words from sounds
Enculturation
Cultural Ecology
Historical Particularism
Morphology
47. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Dominant Culture
Great Vowel Shift
Cognitive Anthropology
Physical/Biological Anthropology
48. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Ethnocentrism
Anthropological Theory
Anthropological Theory
Code Switching
49. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Emic
Leveling Mechanism
Ethnology
Racism
50. 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
Comparative Linguistics
Phone
Adaptation
Semantics