| A | B |
| physical anthropology | darwin |
| artifacts | material culture |
| ecofact | physical remains |
| ideas and activities | non-material culture |
| ideas | what people believe |
| activities | how people behave |
| separation ceremony | senior prom |
| transition ceremony | wedding |
| HRAF | Murdock |
| horticulture | use of hoe; tropical region |
| agriculture | use of plough; nontropical regions |
| phoneme | smallest unit of sound |
| morpheme | sounds that have meaning |
| norms | rules of behavior |
| sanctions | ways to enforce norms |
| ideal norms | what society says we should do |
| real norms | what people actually do |
| folkway | greetings, etiquette in a society |
| mores | moral absolutes |
| ethnocentrism | judgemental way of looking at other cultures |
| cultural relativism | nonjudgemental way of looking at another culture |
| displacement | ability to talk about the past and future |
| arbitrariness | ability to talk about abstract concepts |
| productivity | ability to create new messages |
| pastoralism | herding of animals |
| incipient adapters | potential for cultivation |
| post-glacial adapters | culture that had to change because of new environment |
| pleistocene survivals | culture that could continue as in the past |
| diffusion | culture taking items from another culture |
| paleolithic | old stone age |