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Cultural Anthropology
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1. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Cargo System
Values
Functionalism
Ethnology
2. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Nomadic Pastoralism
Market Exchange
Transhumant Pastoralism
Subsistence Strategies
3. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Organic Analogy
Prestige
Dominant Culture
Anthropological Linguistics
4. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Swidden Cultivation
Human Relations Area Files
Innovation
Ethnobotany
5. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Cognitive Anthropology
Foraging
Capitalism
Potlatch
6. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Population Density
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Peasants
Ethnology
7. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Ecological Functionalism
Ethnoscience
Isolating Language
Productivity Linguistics
8. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Phoneme
Globalization
Cargo System
Ethnography
9. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Isolating Language
Ethnology
Comparative Linguistics
Core Vocabulary
10. 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
Society
Syntax
Glottochronogy
Balanced Reciprocity
11. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Peasants
Great Vowel Shift
Isolating Language
Semantics
12. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Negative Reciprocity
Market Exchange
Productivity Linguistics
Ethnoscape
13. The analysis and study of touch
Kinesics
Haptics
Cultural Relativism
Foraging
14. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Dominant Culture
Economic System
Capitalism
Potlatch
15. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Cognitive Anthropology
Agglutinating Language
Culture Shock
Nomadic Pastoralism
16. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Norms
Diffusion
Enculturation
Firm
17. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Cognitive Anthropology
Redistribution
Productivity Linguistics
Participant Observation
18. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Cognitive Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Collaborative Ethnography
Phonology
19. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Division of Labor
Racism
Ethnology
Economic System
20. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Morphology
Primatology
Globalization
Displacement
21. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Ethnoscience
Cargo System
Pastoralism
Negative Reciprocity
22. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures
Redistribution
Human Relations Area Files
Ecological Functionalism
Collaborative Ethnography
23. 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
Comparative Linguistics
Adaptation
Ethnomedicine
Culture and Personality
24. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Transhumant Pastoralism
Symbolic Anthropology
Cognitive Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
25. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Great Vowel Shift
Glottochronogy
Informant
Industrialism
26. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Firm
Capitalism
Phoneme
Isolating Language
27. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Sociolinguistics
Etic
Nomadic Pastoralism
Norms
28. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Norms
Applied Anthropology
Historical Particularism
Forensic Anthropology
29. Yield per person per unit of land
Productivity
Phone
Cultural Anthropology
Market Exchange
30. The giving and receiving of goods of nearly equal value with a clear obligation of a return gift within a specified time limit
Balanced Reciprocity
Emic
Ethnoscape
Population Density
31. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Conventionality
Dominant Culture
Transhumant Pastoralism
Haptics
32. 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
Ethnocentrism
Minimal Pair
Historical Particularism
Negative Reciprocity
33. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Productivity Linguistics
Firm
Semantics
Values
34. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Ethnocentrism
Isolating Language
Potlatch
Chronemics
35. A system of creating words from sounds
Adaptation
Allophones
Morphology
Productivity
36. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Archeology
Morpheme
Cultural Relativism
Reciprocity
37. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Applied Anthropology
Ethnoscape
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Enculturation
38. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Sociolinguistics
Ethnoscience
Productivity
Firm
39. 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
Norms
Cultural Anthropology
Historical Particularism
Culture
40. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Morpheme
Primatology
Population Density
Universal Grammar
41. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Transhumant Pastoralism
Foraging
Code Switching
Anthropological Theory
42. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Plasticity
Nomadic Pastoralism
Holism
Morpheme
43. The process of the mechanization of production
Industrialism
Economics
Minimal Pair
Diffusion
44. 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
Displacement
Adaptation
Culture
Call System
45. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Semantics
Morpheme
Sociolinguistics
Plasticity
46. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Great Vowel Shift
Holism
Negative Reciprocity
Globalization
47. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Collaborative Ethnography
Globalization
Industrialism
Industrialism
48. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Productivity
Symbol
Prestige
Interpretive Anthropology
49. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society
Pastoralism
Household
Holism
Symbol
50. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Morphology
Leveling Mechanism
Racism
Economic System