Anthro lec 9-10 quiz

Culture change over time is known as:

Cultural Evolution

Varying forms of a language that reflect particular regions, occupations, or social classes and that are similar enough to be mutually intelligible are known as:

Dialects

A system, or a functioning whole, composed of both the natural environment and all the organisms living within it is known as:

Ecosystem

_______ __________ is a mode of subsistence involving some combination of hunting, fishing, and gathering of wild plant foods.

Food Foraging

Distinct male and female speech patterns that vary across social and cultural settings is known as:

Gendered Speech

The _________ of the language is the entire formal structure of a language, including morphology and syntax.

Grammar

____________ is the cultivation of crops in food gardens, carried out with simple hand tools such as digging sticks and hoes.

Horticulture

_________ __________ is a network of people producing and circulating marketable commodities, labor, and services that for various reasons escape government control.

Informal Economy

_____________ _______________ is the development of different languages from a single ancestral language.

Linguistic Divergence

___________ __________ is the attempt by ethnic groups and even countries to proclaim independence by purging their language of foreign terms.

Linguistic Nationalism

The roots of __________ - the systematic study of all aspects of language - trace back to the works of ancient language specialists in India more than 2,000 years ago.

Linguistics

_______ ___________ is a subsistence strategy that involves a combination of crop cultivation with raising animals for food, labor, or trade.

Mixed farming

_________ is a means of exchange used to make payments for other goods and services as well as to measure their value.

Money

________ __________ is a mode of exchange in which the aim is to get something for as little as possible. Neither fair nor balanced, it may involve hard bargaining, manipulation, outright cheating, or theft.

Negative Reciprocity

_________ is the breeding and managing of migratory hers of domesticated grazing animals, such as goats, sheep, cattle, llamas, and camels.

Pastoralism

__________ are small-scale producers of crops or livestock living on land self-owned or rented in exchange for labor, crops, or money and exploited by more powerful groups in a complex society.

Peasants

Instinctive sounds and gestures that have a natural or self-evident meaning are known as:

Signals

____ ______ is a process for the exchange of goods between mutually distrusting ethnic groups so as to avoid direct personal contact.

Silent Trade

The patterns or rules by which words are arranged into phrases and sentences is known as its:

Syntax

Language

a system of communication using symbolic sounds, gestures, or marks that are put together according to certain rules, resulting in meanings that are intelligible to all who share that language.