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Cultural Anthropology
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1. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Subculture
Anthropological Linguistics
Holism
Division of Labor
2. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Displacement
Transhumant Pastoralism
Symbol
Allophones
3. Focuses on understanding cultures by discovering and analyzing the symbols that are most important to their members
Globalization
Values
Horticulture
Symbolic Anthropology
4. The study of the different ways that cultures understand time and use it to communicate
Agglutinating Language
Human Paleontology
Comparative Linguistics
Chronemics
5. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Functionalism
Pastoralism
Informant
Prestige
6. Two or more different phones that can be used to make the same phoneme in a specific language
Ethnobotany
Allophones
Economics
Great Vowel Shift
7. Focuses on the relationship between environment and society
Conventionality
Kinesics
Minimal Pair
Ecological Functionalism
8. The ability of human individuals or cultural groups to change their behavior with relative ease
Horticulture
Transhumant Pastoralism
Cultural Anthropology
Plasticity
9. Ethnography that gives priority to cultural consultants on the topic - methodology - and written results of fieldwork
Ethnocentrism
Collaborative Ethnography
Ethnoscience
Leveling Mechanism
10. 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
Society
Values
Norms
Subculture
11. Focuses on the adaptive dimension of culture
Call System
Functionalism
Cultural Ecology
Enculturation
12. Examining societies using concepts derived from science; an outsiders perspective
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Ethnocentrism
Transhumant Pastoralism
Etic
13. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Enculturation
Generalized Reciprocity
Symbol
Comparative Linguistics
14. The process of the mechanization of production
Core Vocabulary
Industrialism
Cultural Relativism
Physical/Biological Anthropology
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
Division of Labor
Morpheme
Ethnomedicine
Anthropological Linguistics
16. A group within a society that shares norms and values significantly different from those of the dominant culture
Nomadic Pastoralism
Subculture
Swidden Cultivation
Lexicon
17. A food getting strategy that depends on the care of domesticated herd animals
Productivity
Household
Pastoralism
Etic
18. The number of people inhabiting a unit of land
Population Density
Culture Shock
Great Vowel Shift
Economic System
19. 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
Cognitive Anthropology
Efficiency
Holism
Culture
20. An ethnographic database that includes cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures
Forensic Anthropology
Human Relations Area Files
Ethnoscience
Informant
21. A system of rules for combining words into meaningful sentences
Chronemics
Norms
Syntax
Ecological Functionalism
22. An object or a way of thinking or behaving that is new because it is qualitatively different from existing forms
Cultural Ecology
Innovation
Call System
Historical Particularism
23. Studies people from a biological perspective; focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Capital
Phonology
Productivity Linguistics
24. Focuses on providing objective descriptions of cultures within their historical and environmental context
Kinesics
Household
Historical Particularism
Emic
25. Words that differ in only one sound but have different meanings
Kinesics
Informant
Minimal Pair
Globalization
26. 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
Morphology
Ethnobotany
Foraging
Ethnomedicine
27. The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains
Productivity Linguistics
Forensic Anthropology
Symbolic Anthropology
Foraging
28. The attempt to find general principles and laws that govern cultural phenomena
Ethnology
Peasants
Artifacts
Dominant Culture
29. Feelings of alienation and helplessness the result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture
Anthropological Theory
Agglutinating Language
Culture Shock
Adaptation
30. Social honor or respect
Prestige
Population Density
Ecological Functionalism
Transhumant Pastoralism
31. The analysis and study of touch
Physical/Biological Anthropology
Haptics
Generalized Reciprocity
Productive Resources
32. A form of redistribution involving competitive feasting practice among Northwest Coast Native Americans
Universal Grammar
Potlatch
Symbolic Anthropology
Chronemics
33. Production of plants using a simple - nonmechanized technology and where the fertility of gardens and fields is maintained for long periods
Ethnomedicine
Allophones
Kinesics
Horticulture
34. Examining societies using concepts that are meaningful to the culture
Cultural Ecology
Call System
Emic
Universal Grammar
35. Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing
Emic
Firm
Negative Reciprocity
Proxemics
36. An economic system in which people work for wages - land and capital goods are privately owned - and capital is invested for profit
Minimal Pair
Reciprocity
Capitalism
Ethnoscience
37. The pattern of apportioning different tasks to different members of society
Negative Reciprocity
Ethnocentrism
Human Paleontology
Division of Labor
38. 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
Capitalism
Efficiency
Primatology
Adaptation
39. The norms governing production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services within a society
Phoneme
Economic System
Displacement
Holism
40. Shared ideas about the way things ought to be done; rules that reflect and enforce culture
Norms
Capitalism
Allophones
Productivity Linguistics
41. Giving or receiving goods with no immediate specific return expected
Archeology
Ethnomedicine
Generalized Reciprocity
Balanced Reciprocity
42. A language that allows a great number of morphemes per word and has highly regular rules for combining them
Agglutinating Language
Cargo System
Ethnoscience
Human Paleontology
43. Yield per person per unit of land
Cultural Anthropology
Human Paleontology
Society
Productivity
44. The pattern of behavior used by a society to obtain food in a particular environment
Symbol
Displacement
Subsistence Strategies
Conventionality
45. A person from who anthropologists gather data; also known as consultant or interlocutor or respondent
Cultural Ecology
Organic Analogy
Ethnography
Informant
46. A mutual give and take among people of equal status
Reciprocity
Population Density
Ethnocentrism
Archeology
47. A practice value - or form of social organization that evens out wealth within a society
Minimal Pair
Cognitive Anthropology
Leveling Mechanism
Productivity Linguistics
48. Focuses on the relationship between the mind and society
Informant
Diffusion
Cognitive Anthropology
Cultural Relativism
49. The study of body position - movement - facial expression - and gaze
Leveling Mechanism
Agglutinating Language
Prestige
Kinesics
50. The capacity of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present
Displacement
Capital
Isolating Language
Generalized Reciprocity