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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Population Density
Productive Resources
Values
Glottochronogy
2. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Productivity Linguistics
Household
Ethnocentrism
Symbolic Anthropology
3. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Kinesics
Market Exchange
Industrialism
Etic
4. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Values
Leveling Mechanism
Subsistence Strategies
Artifacts
5. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Population Density
Code Switching
Ethnomedicine
Allophones
6. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Semantics
Values
Ethnography
Division of Labor
7. 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
Functionalism
Cargo System
Informant
Etic
8. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Forensic Anthropology
Capital
Market Exchange
Productivity Linguistics
9. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Applied Anthropology
Globalization
Ethnoscape
Horticulture
10. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Prestige
Society
Morpheme
Participant Observation
11. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Allophones
Holism
Cultural Ecology
Haptics
12. 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
Ethnobotany
Haptics
Ethnomedicine
Capital
13. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Ethnology
Applied Anthropology
Cultural Ecology
Anthropological Theory
14. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures
Dominant Culture
Syntax
Forensic Anthropology
Redistribution
15. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Etic
Code Switching
Ethnobotany
Glottochronogy
16. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Agriculture
Universal Grammar
Ethnobotany
Semantics
17. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Haptics
Norms
Interpretive Anthropology
Ethnography
18. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Chronemics
Glottochronogy
Adaptation
Code Switching
19. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Reciprocity
Balanced Reciprocity
Norms
Firm
20. The study of language and its relation to culture
Anthropological Linguistics
Enculturation
Human Relations Area Files
Phoneme
21. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Syntax
Agglutinating Language
Cultural Anthropology
Enculturation
22. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Cognitive Anthropology
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Ecological Functionalism
Peasants
23. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Capital
Informant
Primatology
Cultural Relativism
24. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society
Holism
Pastoralism
Norms
Ethnocentrism
25. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Anthropological Linguistics
Household
Swidden Cultivation
Plasticity
26. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Reciprocity
Cargo System
Cognitive Anthropology
Primatology
27. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Cargo System
Universal Grammar
Transhumant Pastoralism
Emic
28. The study of language and its relation to culture
Negative Reciprocity
Morpheme
Anthropological Linguistics
Cultural Ecology
29. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Potlatch
Lexicon
Proxemics
30. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Human Paleontology
Syntax
Phone
Innovation
31. Yield per person per hour of labor invested
Human Relations Area Files
Interpretive Anthropology
Efficiency
Generalized Reciprocity
32. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Racism
Cultural Ecology
Ethnoscience
Syntax
33. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Comparative Linguistics
Artifacts
Agriculture
Plasticity
34. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Pastoralism
Morpheme
Anthropological Linguistics
Plasticity
35. Social honor or respect
Prestige
Symbolic Anthropology
Proxemics
Ethnology
36. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Innovation
Primatology
Negative Reciprocity
Leveling Mechanism
37. 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
Lexicon
Society
Ethnocentrism
Phonology
38. 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
Transhumant Pastoralism
Cultural Ecology
Ethnobotany
39. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Productivity
Informant
Enculturation
Nomadic Pastoralism
40. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Human Relations Area Files
Industrialism
Call System
Pastoralism
41. The process of the mechanization of production
Displacement
Informant
Industrialism
Morpheme
42. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Chronemics
Economic System
Values
Cultural Ecology
43. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Conventionality
Historical Particularism
Ethnocentrism
Nomadic Pastoralism
44. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Economics
Subsistence Strategies
Holism
Capital
45. 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
Sociolinguistics
Society
Racism
Core Vocabulary
46. Yield per person per unit of land
Globalization
Productivity
Foraging
Diffusion
47. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Innovation
Organic Analogy
Ethnocentrism
Economic System
48. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Morpheme
Ecological Functionalism
Norms
Sociolinguistics
49. Social honor or respect
Prestige
Anthropological Linguistics
Ethnography
Horticulture
50. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Artifacts
Transhumant Pastoralism
Organic Analogy
Globalization