Cultural Anthropology Final

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Across
  1. 2. the creation of social and political systems that provide for and support ethic group differences (1 word)
  2. 4. subfield whose practitioners use anthropological methods, theories, and concepts to solve practical, real-world problems; practitioners are often employed by a governmental agency or private organization (2 words)
  3. 8. the elimination or removal of an unwanted ethnic group or groups from a country or a particular geographical region; usually involves genocide and/or relocation of the population (2 words)
  4. 9. society that has a limited number of high-ranking social positions that grant authority; groups are ranked relative to one another, with the highest rank bringing the highest rewards in prestige, power, and sometimes wealth (2 words)
  5. 11. the forced removal of the members of a particular ethnic group from one geographical region to another (1 word)
  6. 12. a religious movement explicitly intended to create a new way of life for a society or group (2 words)
  7. 13. system of stratification in which membership in a stratum can theoretically be altered and intermarriage between strata is allowed (1 word)
  8. 15. religious organizations in which the members of a group cooperate to perform rituals intended to benefit all (2 words)
  9. 17. the assumption that any aspect of a culture is integrated with other aspects, so that no dimension of culture can be understood in isolation (2 words)
  10. 21. the instance by anthropologists that valid hypotheses and theories about humanity be tested with information from a wide range of cultures (2 words)
  11. 24. the process of integrating the world’s peoples economically, socially, politically, and culturally into a single world system or community (1 word)
  12. 25. rituals the conscious purpose of which is to worship, honor, or beseech the deceased ancestors of a kin group (2 words)
  13. 27. part-time religious specialist who uses his special relationship to supernatural powers for curing members of his group and harming members of other groups (1 word)
  14. 29. members of an ethnic community living outside their country of origin (1 word)
  15. 31. A specialization within physical anthropology that analyzes and identifies human remains (2 words)
  16. 34. stratification system in which membership in a stratum is in theory hereditary, strata are endogamous and contact or relationships among members of different strata are governed by explicit laws, norms, or prohibitions
  17. 35. a form of communal religious organization in which all members of a kin group have mystical relationships with one or more natural objects (1 word)
  18. 40. religious organizations based on personal relationships between specific individuals and supernatural powers (2 words)
  19. 55. Field that uses excavation of sites and analysis of materials remains to investigate cultures that existed before the development of writing (2 words)
  20. 56. a kind of religious specialist, usually full-time, who officiates at large-scale, bureaucratically organized rituals that keep the population in proper relationship to deities or cosmic forces (1 word)
  21. 57. Major subfield of anthropology that studies the biological dimension of humans and other primates. A.K.A. Physical Anthropology (2 words)
  22. 60. organized, stereotyped, symbolic behaviors intended to influence supernatural powers (1 word)
  23. 61. the enforced separation of ethnic groups, in which the dominate ethnic group places legal restrictions on the actions of the members of the other group (1 word)
  24. 62. the investigation of past cultures through excavation of material remains (1 word)
  25. 63. Melanesian revitalization movements in which prophets claim to know secret rituals that will bring wealth (cargo) (2 words)
  26. 64. The study of primates, including monkeys and apes; subfield of biological anthropology (1 word)
  27. 65. stories that recount the deeds of supernatural powers and cultural heroes in the past (1 word)
  28. 66. an ideology that does not rely on the will of supernatural powers but justifies inequality on the basis of its society wide benefits (2 words)
Down
  1. 1. the effects of religion on maintaining the institutions of society as a whole by installing common values, creating solidarity, controlling behavior, and so forth (2 words)
  2. 2. The academic discipline that studies all of humanity from a broad perspective (1 word)
  3. 3. a form of complex society in which many people live in cities (1 word)
  4. 4. Subfield that focuses on the interrelationships between language and other aspects for a people's culture (2 words)
  5. 5. the collective history of an ethnic group that defines which subgroups are part of it and its relationship to other ethnic groups (2 words)
  6. 6. the creation of a new ethnic group (1 word)
  7. 7. the notion that religious beliefs provide explanations for puzzling things and events (2 words)
  8. 10. a dependent subgroup within a larger nationality that lacks the concept of a separate homeland and makes no claim to any inherent right to political autonomy and self-determination (1 word)
  9. 14. the direct or indirect exchange of goods and products between peoples from all regions of the world (2 words)
  10. 16. the social absorption of one ethnic group by another ethnic group through the use of force (2 words)
  11. 18. the specialization that researches the connections between cultural beliefs and habits and the spread and treatment of diseases and illnesses (2 words)
  12. 19. Field that investigates the past of literate peoples through excavation of sites and analysis of artifacts and other material remains (2 words)
  13. 20. Physical differences among human populations; an interest of biological anthropologists (2 words)
  14. 22. The subfield that studies the way of life of contemporary and historically recent peoples (2 words)
  15. 23. the merging of the members of one ethnic group into another, with the consequent abandonment of the former group’s identity (1 word)
  16. 26. the attitude or opinion that the morals, values, and customs of one’s own culture are superior th those of other peoples (1 word)
  17. 28. the deliberate attempt to eliminate the members of an ethnic category or cultural tradition (1 word)
  18. 30. an ethnic group that claims a right to a discrete homeland and to political autonomy and self-determination (1 word)
  19. 31. Ethnographic research that involves observing and interviewing the members of a culture to describe their way of life (1 word)
  20. 32. a geographical region over which a particular ethnic group feels it has exclusive rights (1 word)
  21. 33. a corporation that has most of its employees, produces and sells most of its products or services, and generates most of its gross revenues outside the national boundaries of its “home” country (2 words)
  22. 36. religious organizations in which a full-time priesthood performs rituals believed to benefit believers or the whole society, usually in large buildings dedicated to religious purposes or deities; found in complex societies (2 words)
  23. 37. belief in spiritual beings (1 word)
  24. 38. occurs when an ethnic group is part of a larger collection of ethnic groups, which together constitute a higher level of ethnic identity (2 words)
  25. 39. the notion that the emotional or affective satisfactions people gain from religion are primary (2 words)
  26. 41. religious organizations in which certain individuals (shamans) have relationships with supernatural powers that ordinary people lack (2 words)
  27. 42. the attempt to create a single ethnic group in a particular geographical region (2 words)
  28. 43. the voluntary social absorption of one ethnic group by another ethnic group (2 words)
  29. 44. a written description of the way of life of some human population (1 word)
  30. 45. the buying and selling of goods and services in an integrated global market (2 words)
  31. 46. multinationality countries created by external powers; usually applied to former colonies (2 words)
  32. 47. any overt characteristics that can be used to indicate ethnic group membership (3 words)
  33. 48. form of society in which there is little inequality in access to culturally valued rewards (2 words)
  34. 49. the performance or rites and spells for the purpose of causing harm to others by supernatural means (1 word)
  35. 50. The specialization of physical anthropology that investigates the biological evolution of the human species (1 word)
  36. 51. the notion that one should not judge the behavior of other peoples using the standards of one’s own culture (2 words)
  37. 52. society with marked and largely or partly heritable differences in access to wealth, power, and prestige; inequality is based mainly on unequal access to productive and valued resources (2 words)
  38. 53. a named social group based on perceptions of shared ancestry, cultural traditions, and common history that culturally distinguish that group from other groups (2 words)
  39. 54. the attempt to enlist the aid of supernatural powers by intentionally seeking a dream or vision (2 words)
  40. 58. ideas and beliefs that legitimizes and reinforce inequalities in stratified societies (1 word)
  41. 59. the use of psychic powers to harm others by supernatural means (1 word)