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Cultural Anthropology
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1. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Historical Particularism
Industrialism
Population Density
Interpretive Anthropology
2. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Etic
Ethnocentrism
Norms
Postmodernism
3. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Values
Ethnobotany
Call System
Displacement
4. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Horticulture
Generalized Reciprocity
Swidden Cultivation
Conventionality
5. An approach that considers culture - history - language and biology essential to a complete understanding to human society
Leveling Mechanism
Holism
Foraging
Postmodernism
6. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Pastoralism
Division of Labor
Code Switching
Ethnomedicine
7. A change in the pronunciation of English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
Ethnoscape
Displacement
Great Vowel Shift
Cultural Ecology
8. Focuses on issues of power and voice; suggests that anthropological accounts are partial truths reflecting the backgrounds - training - and social positions of their authors
Transhumant Pastoralism
Collaborative Ethnography
Postmodernism
Ethnocentrism
9. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Society
Diffusion
Innovation
Culture and Personality
10. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Subsistence Strategies
Population Density
Peasants
Productive Resources
11. A filed is cleared by felling the trees and burning the bush
Anthropological Theory
Swidden Cultivation
Morpheme
Morphology
12. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Universal Grammar
Human Relations Area Files
Racism
Productive Resources
13. The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork
Ecological Functionalism
Allophones
Proxemics
Ethnography
14. 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
Syntax
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Anthropology
Economics
15. The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing peoples behavior and participating in their lives
Chronemics
Primatology
Participant Observation
Innovation
16. The process of the mechanization of production
Division of Labor
Archeology
Lexicon
Industrialism
17. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Forensic Anthropology
Productivity Linguistics
Pastoralism
Cultural Relativism
18. The focus between biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history
Human Paleontology
Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Economics
19. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Leveling Mechanism
Diffusion
Cargo System
Firm
20. The smallest unit of language that has meanings
Ethnocentrism
Morpheme
Interpretive Anthropology
Balanced Reciprocity
21. Something that stands for something else. central to language and culture
Capitalism
Symbol
Firm
Industrialism
22. 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
Symbolic Anthropology
Etic
Comparative Linguistics
Society
23. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Innovation
Symbolic Anthropology
Syntax
Nomadic Pastoralism
24. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Symbolic Anthropology
Code Switching
Plasticity
Ethnocentrism
25. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Emic
Cargo System
Foraging
Foraging
26. 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
Diffusion
Plasticity
Culture and Personality
27. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Kinesics
Household
Allophones
Ethnomedicine
28. The spread of cultural elements from one culture to another
Productive Resources
Diffusion
Firm
Ethnoscape
29. A language with relatively few morphemes per word and fairly simple rules for combining them
Isolating Language
Dominant Culture
Ethnoscience
Holism
30. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Forensic Anthropology
Ethnology
Historical Particularism
Allophones
31. A system of creating words from sounds
Agglutinating Language
Division of Labor
Plasticity
Morphology
32. The comparison of societies to living organisms
Innovation
Kinesics
Capital
Organic Analogy
33. 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
Division of Labor
Ethnography
Functionalism
Ethnocentrism
34. Productive resources that are used with the primary goal of increasing their owners financial wealth
Capital
Morphology
Leveling Mechanism
Negative Reciprocity
35. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Dominant Culture
Human Relations Area Files
Balanced Reciprocity
Etic
36. Shared ideas about what is true - right - and beautiful
Ecological Functionalism
Forensic Anthropology
Productive Resources
Values
37. The study of language and its relation to culture
Phonology
Anthropological Linguistics
Comparative Linguistics
Interpretive Anthropology
38. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Primatology
Peasants
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Potlatch
39. The hypothesis that perceptions and understandings of time - space - and matter and conditioned by the structure of a language
Universal Grammar
Culture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Great Vowel Shift
40. A basic set of principles - conditions - and rules that form the foundation of all languages
Universal Grammar
Great Vowel Shift
Diffusion
Economics
41. Rural cultivations who produce for the subsistence of their households but are also integrated into larger - complex state societies
Peasants
Phoneme
Core Vocabulary
Capitalism
42. Communication by clothing - jewelry - tattoos - piercing - and other visible body modifications
Artifacts
Culture
Potlatch
Household
43. The integration of resources - labor - and capital into a global network
Industrialism
Globalization
Productivity
Productivity Linguistics
44. Material goods - natural resources - or information used to create other goods or information
Emic
Household
Horticulture
Productive Resources
45. The study of the cultural use of interpersonal space
Proxemics
Cargo System
Symbolic Anthropology
Ethnography
46. Herd animals are moved regularly throughout the year to different areas as pasture becomes available
Morphology
Phoneme
Economic System
Transhumant Pastoralism
47. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Core Vocabulary
Forensic Anthropology
Ethnology
Displacement
48. A group of people united by kinship or other links who share a residence and organize production - consumption - and distribution among themselves
Household
Universal Grammar
Emic
Human Relations Area Files
49. A focus that examines the relationship between humans and plants in different cultures
Isolating Language
Ethnobotany
Productivity Linguistics
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
50. Smallest identifiable unit of sound made by humans and used in any language
Semantics
Phone
Syntax
Transhumant Pastoralism