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| Change in the biological structure or way of life that makes it better to survive and reproduce |
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| The distortion in theory caused by excessive focus on male activities or male perceptions of female activities. |
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| Part of anthropology that focuses on the reconstruction of past cultures based on their naterial remains |
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| An exchange of goods of equal value with clear obligation to return them within a certain time limit. |
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| the ability of people who know multiple languages to move between them easily |
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| A first language that is composed of two or more different languages (spanish and english person trading mix their languages and create a creole) |
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| Method that uses statistical correlations of traits from different cultures to test generalizations about culture and human behavior. |
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| Study of human thought, meaning and behavior that is learned, not geniticaly passed. |
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| Cultural Resource management |
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| CRM: The protection and management of archaeological resources. |
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| Grammatical constructions that deviate from those used by the socially dominate group in a society |
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| Grammatical constructions that deviate from those used by the socially dominate group in a society |
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| The ablilty of all human languages to describe things not happening in the present (God) |
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| The norms governing production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services within a society |
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| Chosing a course of action to maximize percieved benefit. |
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| Major research tool of cultural anthropology that includes both fieldwork among people in society and the written results of fieldwork. |
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| A distribution of goods with no immediate or specific return expected. |
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| The integration of resources, labor and capital into a global network. |
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| Human Relations Area File (HRAF) |
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| A database inculding cultural descriptions of more than 300 cultures. |
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| Part of anthropology concerned with mapping and explaining physical differences among modern human groups. |
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| A pattern of exchange among trading partners in the Trobriands and other South Pacific islands. |
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| Goods and services are bought and sold at a money price determined primarily by foces of supply and demand. |
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| A theory that seeks to explain the transition from Homo Erectus to Homo Sapians by arguing that different populations of Home Sapians are descendant from different populations of Homo Erectus |
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| Exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage and the desire to get something for nothing. |
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| An ideal cultural pattern that influences behavior in a society. |
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| The fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural date by observing people's behavior and participating in their lives. |
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| A language of contact and trade (two languages out of one language) |
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| The # of people inhibiting a given area of land |
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| Material goods, natural resources, or information that are used to create other goods or information. |
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| The idea that humans can combine words and sounds into new meaningful utterances they have never before heard. |
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| A mutual give-and-take among people of equal status. |
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| Exchange in which goods are collected from members of the group then redistributed to the group (often in the form of ceremonial feasts) |
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| The theory that modern people evolved first in africa then spread out to inhabit all the world. |
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| Subsystem of language that relates words to meaning. |
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| Field is cleared by felling the trees and burning the brush |
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| A basic set of principles, conditions, and rules that underlie all languages. |
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| A culturally defined idea of what is true, right, and beautiful |
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