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Cultural Anthropology Test 2
Test 2
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
04/01/2012

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language
Definition
primary means of human communication, spoken and written
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call systems
Definition
communication systems of nonhuman primates
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cultural transmission
Definition
transmission through learning basic language
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productivity
Definition
creating new expressions that are comprehensible to other speakers
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displacement
Definition
describing things and events that are not present, basic to language
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kinesics
Definition
study of communication through body movements and facial expressions
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phonology
Definition
study of a language's phonetics and phonemics
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morphology
Definition
study of morpheme and word construction
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lexicon
Definition
vocabulary, all the morphemes in a language and their meanings
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syntax
Definition
arrangement of words and phrses in sentences
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phoneme
Definition
smallest sound contrast that distinguishes meaning
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phonetics
Definition
study of speech sounds--what people actually say
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phonemics
Definition
study of sound contrasts (phonemes) in a language
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Definition
Idea that different languages produce different patterns of thought.
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semantics
Definition
language's meaning system
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focal vocabulary
Definition
set of words describing particular domains of experience
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ethnosemantics
Definition
study of lexical categories and contrasts
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style shifts
Definition
varying one's speech in different social situations
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diglossia
Definition
language with high and low dialects (formal and informal)
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honorifics
Definition
terms of respect
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BEV
Definition
Black English Vernacular, dialect spoken by some African Americans
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daughter languages
Definition
languages sharing a common parent language
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protolanguages
Definition
language ancestral to several daughter languages
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subgroups
Definition
closely related languages
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ethnic group
Definition
one among several culturally distinct groups in a society or region
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ethnicity
Definition
identification with an ethnic group
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ascribed status
Definition
based on little or no choice
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achieved status
Definition
based on choices or accomplishments
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status
Definition
position that determines where someone fits into society
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racial classification
Definition
assigning organisms to categories based on common ancestry
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race
Definition
ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis
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phenotype
Definition
organism's evident or manifest biological traits
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descent
Definition
social identity based on ancestry
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hypodescent
Definition
children assigned to same group as minority parent
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stratified
Definition
class structured with differences in wealth, prestige, and power.
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nation-state
Definition
a country
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nationalities
Definition
ethnic groups that have had, have, or want their own country
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nation
Definition
society sharing a language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship
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state
Definition
stratified society with formal central government
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colonialism
Definition
long term foreign domination of a territory and its people
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assimilation
Definition
absorption of minorities within a dominant culture
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plural society
Definition
society with economically independent ethnic groups
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multiculturalism
Definition
cultural diversity is valuable and worth having
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prejudice
Definition
devaluing a group because of its assumed attributes
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stereotypes
Definition
fixed ideas about what members of a group are like
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discrimination
Definition
policies and practices that harm a group and its members
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genocide
Definition
deliberate elimination of a group through mass murder
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ethnocide
Definition
destruction of cultures of certain ethnic groups
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cultural colonialism
Definition
internal domination by one group and its culture or ideology over others
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refugees
Definition
people who flee a country to escape persecution or war
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adaptive strategy
Definition
means of making a living, productive system
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correlation
Definition
association, when one variable changes, another does too
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band
Definition
basic social unit among foragers, fewer than 100 people and may split seasonally
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horticulture
Definition
non industrial plant cultivation with fallowing
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agriculture
Definition
cultivation using land and labor continuously and intensively
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cultivation continuum
Definition
continuum of land and labor use
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pastoralists
Definition
herders of domesticated animals
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nomadism, pastoral
Definition
annual movement of entire pastoral group with herds
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transhumance
Definition
only part of the population moves seasonally with herds
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economy
Definition
system of resource production, redistribution, and consumption
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mode of production
Definition
specific set of social relations that organizes labor
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means of production
Definition
major productive resources: land, labor, technology, capital
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economizing
Definition
allocation of scarce means among alternative ends
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peasant
Definition
small-scale farmer with rent fund obligations
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market principle
Definition
buying, selling, and valuation based on supply and demand
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redistribution
Definition
flow of goods into center, then back out, characteristic of chiefdoms
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reciprocity
Definition
principle governing exchanges among social equals
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reciprocity continuum
Definition
runs from generalized to negative
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generalized reciprocity
Definition
exchanges among closes related individuals
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balanced reciprocity
Definition
between generalized and negative, equal goods are expected back usually withing a certain period of time
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negative reciprocity
Definition
potentially hostile exchanges among strangers
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potlatch
Definition
Competitive feast on NW coast of NA
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tribe
Definition
food producing society with rudimentary political structure
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law
Definition
legal code of a state society, with trial and enforcement
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village head
Definition
local tribal leader with limited authority
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big man
Definition
generous tribal entrepreneur with multivillage support
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pantribal sodality
Definition
nonkin based group with regional political sognificance
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age set
Definition
unisex political group, includes everyone born within a certain time span
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office
Definition
permanent political position
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differential access
Definition
favored access to resources by superordinates over subordinates
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wealth
Definition
all of a person's material assets, basis of economic status
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power
Definition
ability to control others
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prestige
Definition
esteem, respect, approval
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social control
Definition
maintaining social norms and regulating conflict
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hegemony
Definition
subordinates accept hierarchy as "natural"
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public transcript
Definition
open, public interactions between dominators and the oppressed.
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hidden transcript
Definition
hidden resistance by dominance, by the oppressed
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sexual dimorphism
Definition
marked differences in male and female biology, beyond breasts and genitals
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gender roles
Definition
tasks and activities that culture assigns to each sex
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gender stereotypes
Definition
oversimplified, strongly held views about males and females
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gender stratification
Definition
unequal distribution of resources between men and women
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domestic-public dichotomy
Definition
work at home versus more values work outside
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matrilineal descent
Definition
descent traced through women only
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patrilineal descent
Definition
descent traced through men only
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patrilocality
Definition
married couple lives in husband's community
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matrilocality
Definition
married couple lives with wife's community
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matrifocal
Definition
mother centered, household with no father
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patrilineal-patrilocal complex
Definition
male supremacy based on patrilineality, patrilocality, and warfare
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extradomestic
Definition
outside the home, public
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patriarchy
Definition
political system ruled by men
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sexual orientation
Definition
sexual attraction to persons of the opposite, same, or either sex
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