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Cultural Anthropology
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1. The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new - meaningful utterances they have never befoe heard
Productivity Linguistics
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Phone
Physical/Biological Anthropology
2. The science of documenting the relationships between languages and grouping them into language families
Cultural Ecology
Emic
Prestige
Comparative Linguistics
3. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Phonology
Ethnoscience
Ethnography
Norms
4. A form of food production in which fields are in permanent cultivation using plows - animals - and techniques of soil and water control
Historical Particularism
Agriculture
Globalization
Dominant Culture
5. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Diffusion
Dominant Culture
Leveling Mechanism
Symbol
6. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Forensic Anthropology
Haptics
Capitalism
Pastoralism
7. An entire social group and their animals move in search of pasture
Human Relations Area Files
Cultural Relativism
Culture
Nomadic Pastoralism
8. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Enculturation
Culture Shock
Swidden Cultivation
Negative Reciprocity
9. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Participant Observation
Cultural Relativism
Culture Shock
Emic
10. A ritual system common in Central and South America in which wealthy people are required to hold a series of costly ceremonial offices
Isolating Language
Cargo System
Negative Reciprocity
Informant
11. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Cargo System
Human Paleontology
Ethnomedicine
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
12. The focus between biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates
Call System
Primatology
Globalization
Economic System
13. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Collaborative Ethnography
Ethnology
Artifacts
Comparative Linguistics
14. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Cognitive Anthropology
Horticulture
Syntax
Agriculture
15. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Ethnobotany
Displacement
Forensic Anthropology
Productive Resources
16. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Ethnomedicine
Participant Observation
Foraging
Phoneme
17. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Culture Shock
Productivity Linguistics
Isolating Language
Plasticity
18. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Allophones
Household
Morphology
Society
19. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Reciprocity
Productivity
Morpheme
Ethnology
20. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Cognitive Anthropology
Human Paleontology
Code Switching
Isolating Language
21. Fishing - hunting - and collecting vegetable food (hunting and gathering)
Foraging
Culture Shock
Ethnobotany
Cultural Relativism
22. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Pastoralism
Great Vowel Shift
Globalization
Adaptation
23. Focuses on using humanistic methods to analyze culture and discover the meaning of culture to its participants
Emic
Interpretive Anthropology
Conventionality
Archeology
24. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Balanced Reciprocity
Isolating Language
Balanced Reciprocity
Organic Analogy
25. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Emic
Swidden Cultivation
Redistribution
Minimal Pair
26. The smallest unit of sound that serves to distinguish between meanings of words within a language
Symbol
Leveling Mechanism
Applied Anthropology
Phoneme
27. 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
Culture
Postmodernism
Comparative Linguistics
Culture and Personality
28. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Cultural Ecology
Innovation
Potlatch
Participant Observation
29. 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
Participant Observation
Norms
Call System
Adaptation
30. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Ethnology
Adaptation
Ethnoscience
Anthropological Linguistics
31. Yield per person per unit of land
Economic System
Economics
Plasticity
Productivity
32. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Dominant Culture
Ethnology
Peasants
Economics
33. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Isolating Language
Human Paleontology
Universal Grammar
Phonology
34. The study of the relationship between language and culture and the ways language is used in varying social contexts
Human Paleontology
Capital
Core Vocabulary
Sociolinguistics
35. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Dominant Culture
Ethnocentrism
Values
Great Vowel Shift
36. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Productivity Linguistics
Capital
Enculturation
Division of Labor
37. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Universal Grammar
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Organic Analogy
Society
38. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Cultural Ecology
Symbolic Anthropology
Artifacts
Ethnoscience
39. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Negative Reciprocity
Emic
Firm
Potlatch
40. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Phonology
Historical Particularism
Firm
Culture and Personality
41. 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
Functionalism
Diffusion
Economics
Industrialism
42. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Enculturation
Negative Reciprocity
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Lexicon
43. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Great Vowel Shift
Allophones
Culture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
44. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Isolating Language
Nomadic Pastoralism
Anthropological Theory
Displacement
45. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Chronemics
Racism
Globalization
Historical Particularism
46. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Glottochronogy
Core Vocabulary
Ethnology
Potlatch
47. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Transhumant Pastoralism
Peasants
Cultural Relativism
Values
48. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Cultural Ecology
Balanced Reciprocity
Artifacts
Interpretive Anthropology
49. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Phoneme
Population Density
Interpretive Anthropology
Participant Observation
50. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Kinesics
Society
Ethnography
Historical Particularism