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| the academic discipline that studies all of humanity from a broad perspective |
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| how organisms survive and reproduce in their environments |
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| the study of the units of meaning in language |
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| the interpretation of body language, facial expressions, gestures and other non-verbals |
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| (socialization) the transmission, by means of social learning, of cultural knowledge to the next generation |
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| eating dead members of one's own tribe, culture, group in the belief they will gain the spirit or characteristics of the dead or will continue life after death |
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| assumption that any aspect of culture is integrated with others, no dimension can be understood in isolation |
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| the idea that one's morals, values, customs of one's own culture are superior to others |
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| combination of phonemes that communicates a standardized meaning |
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| study of measurable distances between people as they interact |
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| the cultural changes that happen when members of two different traditions come into contact |
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| a custom in which a man spends time working for the family of his bride |
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| main technique in ethnographic studies, involves living among people and participating in their daily activities |
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| the description of a cultural that comes from someone who is in the culture |
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| the description of a culture that comes from an observer or outsider |
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| a morpheme that can be used alone (run, try, do, wear) |
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| a morpheme that cannot stand alone (re-, un-, -er) |
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| specialty within cultural anthropology that studies how language is related to culture, as well as the social uses of speech |
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| gift-giving festival and primary economic system of a culture, hereditary leader hosts and the main purpose is the redistribution and reciprocity of wealth |
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| bride price (bride wealth) |
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| a custom in which a prospective groom and his relatives are required to give goods, property, wealth to the relatives of the bride in order to validate the marriage |
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| study of the sound system of language |
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| study of the principles and rules constructing phrases and sentence structure in language |
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| written description of the way of life of some human population |
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| cultural taboo against writing or speaking the names of exalted people |
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| an individual's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture |
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| smallest meaningful unit of sound, when one is substituted for another, it changes the meaning of the morpheme |
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| the study of meaning of language |
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| study of human cultures from a comparative perspective (interchangeably called cultural anthropology) |
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| the practice of referring to parents by the name of their children - "Johnny's mother went to Starbucks" |
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