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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Monday, July 22, 2024 1:06 PMCultural Anthropology Exam Practice
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anthropology - ✔️✔️the study of the human species and its immediate ancestors
holistic - ✔️✔️encompassing past, present, and future biology, society, language, and culture
culture - ✔️✔️traditions and customs transmitted through learning
food production - ✔️✔️an economy based on plant cultivation and/or animal domestication
general anthropology - ✔️✔️anthropology as a whole: culture, archaeological, biological, and
linguistic anthropology
biocultural - ✔️✔️combining biological and cultural approaches to a given problem
cultural anthropology - ✔️✔️the comparative, cross-cultural, study of human society and culture
ethnography - ✔️✔️fieldwork in a particular cultural setting
archaeological anthropology - ✔️✔️the study of human behavior through material remains
ethnology - ✔️✔️the study of socio-cultural differences and similarities
biological anthropology - ✔️✔️the study of human biological variation in time and space
physical anthropology - ✔️✔️same as biological anthropology
linguistic anthropology - ✔️✔️the study of language and linguistic diversity in time, space, and
society
sociolinguistics - ✔️✔️the study of language in society
science - ✔️✔️field of study that seeks reliable explanations, with reference to the material and
physical world
applied anthropology - ✔️✔️using anthropology to solve contemporary problems
theory - ✔️✔️a set of ideas formulated to explain something
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association - ✔️✔️an observed relationship between two or more variables
cultural resource management - ✔️✔️deciding what needs saving when entire archaeological sites
cannot be saved
hypothesis - ✔️✔️a suggested but as yet unverified explanation
enculturation - ✔️✔️the process by which culture is learned and transmitted across the generations
symbol - ✔️✔️something, verbal or nonverbal, that stands for something else
core values - ✔️✔️key, basic, or central values that integrate a culture
hominid - ✔️✔️a member of hominid family; any fossil or living human, chimp, or gorilla
hominins - ✔️✔️hominids excluding the african apes; all the human species that ever have existed
maladaptive - ✔️✔️something that is threatening to a group's continued existence
universal - ✔️✔️something that exists in every culture
generality - ✔️✔️culture pattern or trait that exists in some but not all societies
particularity - ✔️✔️distinctive or unique culture trait, pattern, or integration
subcultures - ✔️✔️different cultural traditions associated with subgroups in the same nation
national culture - ✔️✔️cultural features shared by citizens of the same nation
international culture - ✔️✔️cultural traditions that extend beyond national boundaries
ethnocentrism - ✔️✔️judging other cultures using one's own cultural standards
human rights - ✔️✔️rights based on justice and morality beyond and superior to particular
countries, cultures, and religions
cultural rights - ✔️✔️rights vested in religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous societies
cultural relativism - ✔️✔️idea that to know another culture requires full understanding of its
members' beliefs and motivations
Intellectual property rights (IPR) - ✔️✔️intellectual property rights; an indigenous group's
collective knowledge and its applications
diffusion - ✔️✔️borrowing of cultural traits between societies
acculturation - ✔️✔️an exchange of cultural features between groups in firsthand contact
independent invention - ✔️✔️the independent development of a cultural feature in different
societies
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