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Cultural Anthropology
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1. Focuses on recording and examining ways in which members of a culture use language to classify and organize their cognitive world
Ethnoscience
Postmodernism
Culture and Personality
Human Relations Area Files
2. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Postmodernism
Cognitive Anthropology
Ecological Functionalism
Plasticity
3. A set of propositions about which aspects of culture are critical - how they should be studied - and what the goal of studying them should be
Adaptation
Anthropological Theory
Economics
Comparative Linguistics
4. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Capitalism
Proxemics
Historical Particularism
Ethnobotany
5. Global distribution of people associated with each other by history - kinship - friendship - and webs of mutual understanding
Productive Resources
Ethnoscape
Subculture
Transhumant Pastoralism
6. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Symbolic Anthropology
Pastoralism
Ethnocentrism
Symbol
7. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Phonology
Generalized Reciprocity
Industrialism
Subculture
8. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Morpheme
Diffusion
Ethnobotany
Ethnoscience
9. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Culture Shock
Productive Resources
Division of Labor
Population Density
10. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze
Kinesics
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Ethnology
Potlatch
11. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Ethnology
Anthropological Theory
Division of Labor
Holism
12. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Reciprocity
Historical Particularism
Holism
Glottochronogy
13. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems
Agglutinating Language
Minimal Pair
Artifacts
Applied Anthropology
14. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Economic System
Ethnomedicine
Primatology
Foraging
15. 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
Ethnomedicine
Isolating Language
Productivity
Population Density
16. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Historical Particularism
Market Exchange
Pastoralism
Productivity
17. The notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture
Sociolinguistics
Swidden Cultivation
Market Exchange
Cultural Relativism
18. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Interpretive Anthropology
Racism
Haptics
Culture Shock
19. 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
Emic
Chronemics
Culture and Personality
Great Vowel Shift
20. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Archeology
Ethnobotany
Culture
Phonology
21. An economic system in which goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined by the forces of supply and demand
Diffusion
Market Exchange
Enculturation
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
22. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Artifacts
Industrialism
Cognitive Anthropology
Phoneme
23. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Participant Observation
Forensic Anthropology
Archeology
Cargo System
24. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Allophones
Potlatch
Applied Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
25. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Agglutinating Language
Market Exchange
Forensic Anthropology
Values
26. A statistical technique that linguistics have developed to estimate the date of separation of related languages
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Morpheme
Glottochronogy
Sociolinguistics
27. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Swidden Cultivation
Plasticity
Economics
Minimal Pair
28. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Symbolic Anthropology
Etic
Ethnomedicine
Ethnography
29. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Morphology
Lexicon
Culture and Personality
Leveling Mechanism
30. 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
Racism
Adaptation
Morpheme
Forensic Anthropology
31. 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
Phone
Potlatch
Isolating Language
Culture
32. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Holism
Leveling Mechanism
Economics
Human Relations Area Files
33. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze
Isolating Language
Historical Particularism
Sociolinguistics
Kinesics
34. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Foraging
Swidden Cultivation
Ethnoscape
Cognitive Anthropology
35. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Foraging
Capitalism
Capital
Potlatch
36. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Agglutinating Language
Minimal Pair
Isolating Language
Kinesics
37. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Morpheme
Capitalism
Firm
Postmodernism
38. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Human Relations Area Files
Balanced Reciprocity
Collaborative Ethnography
Subsistence Strategies
39. The study of language and its relation to culture
Anthropological Linguistics
Chronemics
Dominant Culture
Ethnocentrism
40. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Kinesics
Household
Participant Observation
Ethnography
41. The process of the mechanization of production
Emic
Archeology
Redistribution
Industrialism
42. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Great Vowel Shift
Negative Reciprocity
Balanced Reciprocity
Comparative Linguistics
43. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Morpheme
Lexicon
Plasticity
Human Relations Area Files
44. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Transhumant Pastoralism
Historical Particularism
Anthropological Theory
Minimal Pair
45. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Emic
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Informant
Lexicon
46. The system of language that relates words to meanings
Allophones
Semantics
Generalized Reciprocity
Proxemics
47. 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
Morphology
Lexicon
Emic
48. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Human Paleontology
Etic
Balanced Reciprocity
Morphology
49. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Pastoralism
Leveling Mechanism
Chronemics
Culture Shock
50. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Phoneme
Cultural Relativism
Economics
Society