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Cultural Anthropology

Subject : humanities
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1. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them






2. Yield per person per hour of labor invested






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






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






5. 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






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






7. Moving seamlessly and appropriately between two different languages






8. The total stock of words in a language






9. 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






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






11. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences






12. 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






13. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals






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






15. 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






16. Focuses on identifying general laws that identify different elements of society - show how they relate to each other - and demonstrate their role in maintaining social order






17. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush






18. An institution composed of kin and/or nonkin that is organized primarily for financial gain






19. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society






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






21. 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






22. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants






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






24. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them






25. The comparison of societies to living organisms






26. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present






27. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members






28. The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems






29. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent






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






31. The study of human thought - behavior - and lifeways that are learned rather than transmitted and that are typical of groups of people






32. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease






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






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






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






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






37. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society






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






39. 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






40. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society






41. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land






42. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods






43. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals






44. A system of creating words from sounds






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






46. Yield per person per unit of land






47. Focuses on identifying general laws that identify different elements of society - show how they relate to each other - and demonstrate their role in maintaining social order






48. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing






49. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture






50. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard