Anthropology 6

Every culture has norms or standards of what is acceptable behavior. The importance of a norm is usually determined by

how members of a society respond when the norm is violated

Anthropologists try very hard to eliminate ethnocentric thoughts and behaviors in their work because

all of the above

There are numerous ways to make a point to another human. They include

all of the above

Without a written language, knowledge is passed on to the next generation through

all of the above

In anthropology, the term "culture" refers to

all the learned behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, values, and ideals that are characteristic of a particular society or population

Children learn spoken language

at about the same age in all cultures

The worldwide trend for intensive agriculturalists to produce for a market is called ________.

commercialization

Compared to people in simpler societies, people in complex societies

commonly can give a larger number of general, or life-form, terms for plants and animals

The anthropological attitude that a society's customs and ideas should be described objectively and understood in the context of that society's problems and opportunities is called

cultural relavitism

The study of communication by nonverbal or non-vocal means is

kinesics

The most powerful transmitter of culture is probably

language

For something to be cultural, it must be

learned and commonly shared

Sometimes it appears that culture is random, but in fact it is integrated. What makes it integrated?

the traits that make up culture are adjusted to, or consistent with, one another.

The smallest unit of language that has meaning is a

morph

A set of sounds that make a difference in language

phoneme

A _________ is a group of people who occupy a particular territory and speak a common language

society

The term "subculture" refers to

the variant culture of a group of a people within a larger society

Languages can be easily lost for many reasons, but mostly because

they are not passed on to children

Why are maladaptive customs likely to disappear from a society

they diminish the chances of survival and reproduction

Most of the ngatatjara's food supply is gathered by _____ and is _________.

women/fruit or other plant food

Languages are not stagnant, as they do change over time. The evidence for this exists in

written words