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Anthropology Concepts
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1. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself
fieldwork
free morpheme
3 methods of doing anthro
Challenges and Issues
2. The study of speech sounds
Feminist Anthropology
moral relativism
Interpretive Anthropology
phonetics
3. Written accounts of other observers
Ethnohistorical Research
Functionalism
moral relativism
Cultural Ecology
4. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.
fieldwork
culture
phonology
culture shock
5. Deals with the study of language in a cultural context
fieldwork
linguistic anthropology
cultural anthropology
phonology
6. Culture everywhere evolves through a sequence of stages - savagery - barbarianism - civilized - LOUIS HENRY MORGAN
archeology
cultural anthropology
Unilineal Evolutionism
Linguistic Ideology
7. Study of past human life and cultures
free morpheme
anthropology
bound morpheme
archeology
8. Written accounts of other observers
Ethnohistorical Research
Linguistic Nationalism
anthropology
ethnology
9. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone
Historical Particularism
Sociolinguistics
Linguistic Ideology
bound morpheme
10. The study of speech sounds
Political Economy
phonetics
phonology
bound morpheme
11. The smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language
Ethnolinguistics
Armchair Anthropology
phonemes
Unilineal Evolutionism
12. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
Linguistic Nationalism
Ethnolinguistics
Descriptive Linguistics
Feminist Anthropology
13. Boas; the view that individual cultures must be studied and described in their own terms and understood within their own historical context. FRANK BOAS
Feminist Anthropology
Historical Particularism
moral relativism
ethnocentrism
14. Graebner and Elliott Smith. Theory that all societies change as a result of cultural borrowing from one another.
Ferdinand de Saussure
phonemes
Diffusionism
Cultural Ecology
15. Re-examined the role of women in society. roles and behaviors of observer can profoundly effect data and analysis. women can get more info from a women than a man can
ethnocentrism
Linguistic Ideology
Diffusionism
Feminist Anthropology
16. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
cultural relativism
Descriptive Linguistics
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
17. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
Cultural Ecology
ethnology
Sociolinguistics
culture
18. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
culture
Unilineal Evolutionism
morphology
19. Re-examined the role of women in society. roles and behaviors of observer can profoundly effect data and analysis. women can get more info from a women than a man can
Feminist Anthropology
ethnography
Ethnohistorical Research
Challenges and Issues
20. Strongly held ideas and identities attached of a particular language
fieldwork
Historical Particularism
Ethnohistorical Research
Linguistic Ideology
21. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)
Design Features of Language
fieldwork
Speech Community
culture shock
22. Study of past human life and cultures
Globalization of Language
archeology
syntax
Linguistic Ideology
23. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
Globalization of Language
phonology
Cultural Ecology
grammar
24. Everything that goes along with spoken language (volume - pitch - tone) and body language
Functionalism
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Linguistic Ideology
Globalization of Language
25. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself
Historical Particularism
Interpretive Anthropology
ethnocentrism
3 methods of doing anthro
26. The study of the sound system of language
Descriptive Linguistics
phonology
Holistic Perspective
phonetics
27. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life
ethnocentrism
fieldwork
Interpretive Anthropology
moral relativism
28. The study of how languages change over time.
fieldwork
phonology
Historical Linguistics
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
29. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.
Diffusionism
code-switching
linguistic anthropology
Political Economy
30. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone
Diffusionism
Ethnohistorical Research
bound morpheme
linguistic anthropology
31. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
linguistic anthropology
free morpheme
grammar
Unilineal Evolutionism
32. The study of humanity in all possible ways. scientific and holistic
linguistic anthropology
ethnology
anthropology
Ethnohistorical Research
33. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.
fieldwork
Cultural Ecology
Unilineal Evolutionism
grammar
34. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.
Interpretive Anthropology
syntax
anthropology
Historical Linguistics
35. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
Holistic Perspective
cultural relativism
ethnocentrism
linguistic anthropology
36. Feelings of confusion - distress - and sometimes depression that can result from the psychological stress caused by the strain of rapidly adjusting to an alien culture
culture shock
Historical Linguistics
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
syntax
37. Changing from one mode of speech to another as the situation demands - whether from one language to another or from one dialect of a language to another
Linguistic Nationalism
code-switching
Unilineal Evolutionism
physical anthropology (aka biological)
38. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation
Globalization of Language
morphology
Historical Particularism
free morpheme
39. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)
Interpretive Anthropology
Globalization of Language
Ethnolinguistics
moral relativism
40. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it
Ethnolinguistics
code-switching
Sociolinguistics
moral relativism
41. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.
ethnocentrism
Political Economy
Linguistic Nationalism
ethnography
42. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)
Interpretive Anthropology
Speech Community
ethnography
phonology
43. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture
Ethnohistorical Research
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
Descriptive Linguistics
linguistic anthropology
44. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
phonology
Holistic Perspective
cultural relativism
3 methods of doing anthro
45. Enthographic Authority -- why should we believe what anthropologist is telling us - Representation - how experiences are translated for others
Political Economy
moral relativism
Ferdinand de Saussure
Challenges and Issues
46. In language - the smallest unit that carries meaning - free and bound
physical anthropology (aka biological)
3 methods of doing anthro
Ethnohistorical Research
morpheme
47. The study of the sound system of language
phonemes
culture
phonology
Speech Community
48. Father of Linguistic Anthropology 1887-1913. Led to diachronic (thru time) and synchronic (how it is used today) studies of language in the early 20th century.
Sociolinguistics
ethnography
Ferdinand de Saussure
ethnocentrism
49. First attempt at anthropology - don't go anywhere. Sir James Frazer.
linguistic anthropology
anthropology
fieldwork
Armchair Anthropology
50. Boas; the view that individual cultures must be studied and described in their own terms and understood within their own historical context. FRANK BOAS
Historical Particularism
Holistic Perspective
fieldwork
Challenges and Issues