To change back and forth from English to Spanish is one example
What is codeswitching?
100
This is learned and shared.
What is culture?
100
The class you are currently in.
What is cultural anthropology or introduction to cultural anthropology?
100
The appropriate form of address to use when emailing your professor.
What is Dear Professor or Dear Dr. ___?
100
The number of cumulative exams we have in this class.
What is zero.
200
Wade's article and TED talk (both with beautiful photos) described that the loss of this, is also the loss of unique ideas and concepts.
What are variety of languages or languages?
200
The term for the belief that one’s own cultural values are superior to those of another culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
This sub-field of anthropology studies language.
What is linguistics?
200
These people are the Nacirema.
Who are Americans or us?
200
In the word “unhealthy" - "un" is an example of this.
What is a bound morpheme?
300
The linguistic term for smallest sound.
What is a phoneme?
300
This a written account by an anthropologist of how a single population lives.
What is an ethnography?
300
This sub-field of anthropology looks at primates for primatology and/or bones for forensic anthropology.
What is physical or biological anthropology?
300
The narrator in the movie about physical changes with language mentioned that this likely helped us survive major cataclysmic events. It was also discussed in the article Nice Guys Finish First.
What is cooperation?
300
These are the sequences of sounds that have meaning.
What are morphemes?
400
One might argue over this, like in a New York Times crossword puzzle, also known as changes in meaning or form.
What is semantic or semantics?
400
All cultures have a taboo against this, also known as sexual relations with someone considered to be a close relative.
What is incest?
400
By studying artifacts, you study this type of anthropology.
What is archaeology?
400
The author of Too Many Bananas wanted this.
What is a watermelon?
400
Another cultural universal - the practice of seeking out a mate outside of one's own group.
What is exogamy?
500
The term noted in the movie "Do You Speak American?” that describes different pronunciations of the same language.
What is dialect?
500
An objective approach taken by a cultural anthropologist to understand the culture from a member of that culture's perspective.
What is cultural relativity?
500
This school of thought combines all four of anthropology's sub-fields into a holistic perspective.
What is American anthropology?
500
In the article "Does Your Language Shape How You Think?" the authors describe the aboriginal language of Guugu Yimithirr and this way of thinking about movement that makes it unique.
What is that is uses no egocentric directions or only cardinal directions - like east or west?
500
The term used to describe how humans have the ability to talk about things, times and places that are not within their immediate experience.