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Cultural Anthropology
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1. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Prestige
Reciprocity
Etic
Informant
2. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Nomadic Pastoralism
Cultural Relativism
Artifacts
Ethnoscape
3. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Balanced Reciprocity
Nomadic Pastoralism
Economic System
Physical/Biological Anthropology
4. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Market Exchange
Capitalism
Reciprocity
Comparative Linguistics
5. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Cultural Relativism
Productive Resources
Swidden Cultivation
Economic System
6. The study of language and its relation to culture
Human Paleontology
Cargo System
Potlatch
Anthropological Linguistics
7. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Ethnology
Human Relations Area Files
Human Paleontology
Archeology
8. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Culture
Ethnoscape
Culture Shock
Globalization
9. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Subculture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Code Switching
Transhumant Pastoralism
10. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Ethnology
Subsistence Strategies
Productivity Linguistics
11. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Society
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Diffusion
Productive Resources
12. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Plasticity
Morphology
Market Exchange
Globalization
13. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Historical Particularism
Society
Norms
Reciprocity
14. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Enculturation
Negative Reciprocity
Agriculture
Racism
15. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Participant Observation
Collaborative Ethnography
Comparative Linguistics
Innovation
16. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Universal Grammar
Postmodernism
Ethnoscience
Ethnocentrism
17. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Society
Syntax
Cognitive Anthropology
Organic Analogy
18. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Organic Analogy
Forensic Anthropology
Diffusion
Sociolinguistics
19. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Interpretive Anthropology
Capitalism
Glottochronogy
Ethnocentrism
20. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Call System
Household
Forensic Anthropology
Leveling Mechanism
21. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Syntax
Informant
Efficiency
Functionalism
22. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Cultural Ecology
Universal Grammar
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Transhumant Pastoralism
23. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Ethnography
Cargo System
Innovation
Core Vocabulary
24. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Emic
Racism
Ethnoscape
Globalization
25. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Adaptation
Ethnobotany
Nomadic Pastoralism
Anthropological Linguistics
26. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Redistribution
Emic
Ethnology
Capitalism
27. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Applied Anthropology
Horticulture
Division of Labor
Cultural Ecology
28. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Capitalism
Allophones
Capital
Artifacts
29. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Historical Particularism
Generalized Reciprocity
Symbol
Phone
30. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Subsistence Strategies
Generalized Reciprocity
Innovation
Peasants
31. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Etic
Forensic Anthropology
Collaborative Ethnography
Sociolinguistics
32. 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
Conventionality
Participant Observation
Artifacts
33. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Forensic Anthropology
Population Density
Cultural Ecology
Agriculture
34. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Industrialism
Glottochronogy
Division of Labor
Human Paleontology
35. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Functionalism
Emic
Proxemics
Allophones
36. The process of learning to be a member of a particular cultural group
Archeology
Enculturation
Archeology
Interpretive Anthropology
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
Generalized Reciprocity
Ethnocentrism
Glottochronogy
Sociolinguistics
38. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain
Cultural Ecology
Great Vowel Shift
Productivity
Firm
39. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Conventionality
Primatology
Racism
Ethnoscape
40. The notion that words are only arbitrarily or conventionally connected to the things for which they stand
Conventionality
Comparative Linguistics
Leveling Mechanism
Culture Shock
41. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Culture
Peasants
Foraging
Code Switching
42. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Morpheme
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Agriculture
Racism
43. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Culture Shock
Subculture
Proxemics
Ethnography
44. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Capitalism
Holism
Norms
Syntax
45. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Dominant Culture
Horticulture
Potlatch
Human Paleontology
46. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Swidden Cultivation
Organic Analogy
Culture
Agglutinating Language
47. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Capitalism
Call System
Population Density
Sociolinguistics
48. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Foraging
Productivity Linguistics
Symbolic Anthropology
Ecological Functionalism
49. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Market Exchange
Capitalism
Adaptation
Symbolic Anthropology
50. 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
Human Paleontology
Cognitive Anthropology
Society
Call System