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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains
Subsistence Strategies
Culture Shock
Archeology
Ethnology
2. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Lexicon
Culture
Ethnoscape
Household
3. Exchange in which goods are collected from or contributed by members of a group and then given out to the group in a new pattern
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Ethnomedicine
Glottochronogy
Redistribution
4. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Culture
Phone
Transhumant Pastoralism
Productivity Linguistics
5. 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
Prestige
Ethnography
6. A form of animal communication composed of a limited number of sounds that are tied to specific stimuli in the environment
Haptics
Emic
Universal Grammar
Call System
7. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Agriculture
Diffusion
Economics
Industrialism
8. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Prestige
Balanced Reciprocity
Diffusion
Etic
9. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Subculture
Cultural Relativism
Capital
Great Vowel Shift
10. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Transhumant Pastoralism
Generalized Reciprocity
Great Vowel Shift
Racism
11. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Participant Observation
Cultural Relativism
Division of Labor
Human Relations Area Files
12. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Market Exchange
Pastoralism
Market Exchange
Chronemics
13. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics
Capitalism
Universal Grammar
Cargo System
Racism
14. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Etic
Great Vowel Shift
Economic System
Ethnobotany
15. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Displacement
Ethnobotany
Archeology
Adaptation
16. A list of 100 or 200 terms that designated things - actions - and activities likely to be named in all the worlds languages
Enculturation
Core Vocabulary
Symbol
Ethnocentrism
17. A system of creating words from sounds
Morphology
Cargo System
Horticulture
Swidden Cultivation
18. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Horticulture
Transhumant Pastoralism
Semantics
19. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Chronemics
Capitalism
Subculture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
20. The analysis and study of touch
Cultural Relativism
Haptics
Anthropological Theory
Generalized Reciprocity
21. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Reciprocity
Generalized Reciprocity
Human Relations Area Files
Cargo System
22. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Displacement
Cultural Relativism
Isolating Language
Applied Anthropology
23. 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
Call System
Morpheme
Universal Grammar
Economics
24. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Human Paleontology
Culture Shock
Plasticity
Universal Grammar
25. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Pastoralism
Efficiency
Applied Anthropology
Culture
26. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages
Foraging
Code Switching
Pastoralism
Ethnology
27. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Dominant Culture
Phoneme
Redistribution
Code Switching
28. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Culture and Personality
Foraging
Anthropological Theory
Call System
29. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Emic
Foraging
Leveling Mechanism
Ethnoscape
30. The total stock of words in a language
Lexicon
Negative Reciprocity
Nomadic Pastoralism
Subculture
31. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Conventionality
Culture and Personality
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Globalization
32. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Anthropological Linguistics
Subsistence Strategies
Phoneme
Semantics
33. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Participant Observation
Universal Grammar
Society
Archeology
34. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Code Switching
Innovation
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
35. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Haptics
Pastoralism
Subculture
Norms
36. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Population Density
Ethnoscience
Cargo System
Organic Analogy
37. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Functionalism
Adaptation
Economic System
Industrialism
38. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Values
Racism
Efficiency
Phoneme
39. 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
Balanced Reciprocity
Ethnoscape
Morpheme
40. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Balanced Reciprocity
Nomadic Pastoralism
Phonology
Productive Resources
41. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Core Vocabulary
Haptics
Glottochronogy
Symbol
42. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Interpretive Anthropology
Cultural Relativism
Ethnology
Peasants
43. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Haptics
Pastoralism
Chronemics
Ecological Functionalism
44. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Productivity
Household
Chronemics
Ethnology
45. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Culture and Personality
Economics
Symbol
Minimal Pair
46. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Human Paleontology
Pastoralism
Society
Interpretive Anthropology
47. 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
Productivity Linguistics
Negative Reciprocity
Allophones
48. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Kinesics
Diffusion
Artifacts
Efficiency
49. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Agriculture
Racism
Code Switching
Industrialism
50. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Primatology
Ethnology
Phoneme
Cultural Anthropology
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