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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives






2. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context






3. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture






4. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history






5. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network






6. The study of language and its relation to culture






7. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture






8. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures






9. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture






10. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






11. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages






12. Social honor or respect






13. 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






14. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages






15. Social honor or respect






16. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society






17. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited






18. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment






19. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another






20. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)






21. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language






22. The culture with the greatest wealth and power in a society that consists of many subcultures






23. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective






24. Yield per person per hour of labor invested






25. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world






26. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language






27. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context






28. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains






29. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding






30. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms






31. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains






32. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture






33. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






34. The belief that some human populations are superior to others because of inherited - genetically transmitted characteristics






35. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society






36. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit






37. The analysis and study of touch






38. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth






39. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices






40. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful






41. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture






42. The comparison of societies to living organisms






43. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information






44. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves






45. Focuses on reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains






46. The smallest unit of language that has meanings






47. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork






48. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited






49. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)






50. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture