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Anthropology Concepts
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1. Study of past human life and cultures
ethnology
archeology
ethnography
Sociolinguistics
2. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life
ethnology
Globalization of Language
phonology
fieldwork
3. The study of humanity in all possible ways. scientific and holistic
syntax
physical anthropology (aka biological)
anthropology
ethnography
4. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.
Ethnohistorical Research
ethnocentrism
linguistic anthropology
Political Economy
5. The study of the sound system of language
Design Features of Language
phonology
Historical Particularism
physical anthropology (aka biological)
6. Written accounts of other observers
Armchair Anthropology
Ethnohistorical Research
morphology
ethnocentrism
7. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
Descriptive Linguistics
syntax
cultural relativism
ethnocentrism
8. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language
phonetics
Sociolinguistics
Cultural Ecology
Ethnolinguistics
9. Charles Hockett - arbitrary - composed of discrete units - uses displacement - openness - prevarication
Political Economy
Ethnohistorical Research
archeology
Design Features of Language
10. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.
culture
phonemes
Linguistic Nationalism
Historical Particularism
11. Written accounts of other observers
cultural anthropology
Unilineal Evolutionism
Design Features of Language
Ethnohistorical Research
12. Study of past human life and cultures
Descriptive Linguistics
archeology
phonemes
anthropology
13. Humans as biological organisms. includes genetics and forensics of non-human primates
syntax
physical anthropology (aka biological)
morpheme
Armchair Anthropology
14. How variations in the beliefs and behaviors of different human groups are shaped by culture
Functionalism
3 methods of doing anthro
cultural anthropology
Linguistic Ideology
15. Everything that goes along with spoken language (volume - pitch - tone) and body language
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
moral relativism
ethnocentrism
free morpheme
16. Bronislaw Molinowski -physiological functionalism - cultural traits that meet the basic human needs of the individual - AR Radcliffe Brown - structural functionalism - cultural traits maintain the stability of the society
Feminist Anthropology
Functionalism
Sociolinguistics
Speech Community
17. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work
ethnography
bound morpheme
phonetics
Historical Linguistics
18. The study of how languages change over time.
Historical Linguistics
phonemes
Design Features of Language
linguistic anthropology
19. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work
morpheme
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
cultural anthropology
ethnography
20. How variations in the beliefs and behaviors of different human groups are shaped by culture
Functionalism
cultural anthropology
Historical Linguistics
Globalization of Language
21. Boas; the view that individual cultures must be studied and described in their own terms and understood within their own historical context. FRANK BOAS
Design Features of Language
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Historical Particularism
physical anthropology (aka biological)
22. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
cultural relativism
free morpheme
Political Economy
phonemes
23. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
Holistic Perspective
cultural anthropology
morphology
Armchair Anthropology
24. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone
Sociolinguistics
bound morpheme
Ferdinand de Saussure
Linguistic Ideology
25. Graebner and Elliott Smith. Theory that all societies change as a result of cultural borrowing from one another.
ethnography
cultural relativism
Diffusionism
archeology
26. In language - the smallest unit that carries meaning - free and bound
bound morpheme
Unilineal Evolutionism
Ethnohistorical Research
morpheme
27. The study of the sound system of language
free morpheme
Linguistic Ideology
phonology
Historical Particularism
28. The study of how languages change over time.
culture
Functionalism
Historical Linguistics
Historical Particularism
29. 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
Ethnolinguistics
Feminist Anthropology
Linguistic Ideology
free morpheme
30. 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
Ferdinand de Saussure
Historical Particularism
grammar
culture shock
31. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
cultural anthropology
free morpheme
code-switching
Feminist Anthropology
32. Clifford Geertz - the view that cultures can be understood by studying what people think about - their ideas - and the meaning that are important to them - focuses on using humanistic methods - such as those found in the analysis of literature - to
Design Features of Language
bound morpheme
Interpretive Anthropology
free morpheme
33. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.
3 methods of doing anthro
ethnology
Linguistic Nationalism
grammar
34. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation
ethnology
anthropology
moral relativism
morphology
35. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
free morpheme
grammar
Historical Particularism
Holistic Perspective
36. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)
Globalization of Language
Design Features of Language
Armchair Anthropology
ethnology
37. Strongly held ideas and identities attached of a particular language
cultural relativism
Holistic Perspective
physical anthropology (aka biological)
Linguistic Ideology
38. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
phonology
cultural relativism
Ferdinand de Saussure
phonology
39. Clifford Geertz - the view that cultures can be understood by studying what people think about - their ideas - and the meaning that are important to them - focuses on using humanistic methods - such as those found in the analysis of literature - to
Challenges and Issues
Diffusionism
Functionalism
Interpretive Anthropology
40. Culture everywhere evolves through a sequence of stages - savagery - barbarianism - civilized - LOUIS HENRY MORGAN
Historical Linguistics
Unilineal Evolutionism
anthropology
Political Economy
41. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself
Holistic Perspective
culture
phonetics
3 methods of doing anthro
42. In language - the smallest unit that carries meaning - free and bound
morpheme
Sociolinguistics
Holistic Perspective
3 methods of doing anthro
43. 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
Unilineal Evolutionism
linguistic anthropology
Descriptive Linguistics
code-switching
44. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
ethnocentrism
Descriptive Linguistics
phonemes
Armchair Anthropology
45. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.
syntax
linguistic anthropology
ethnography
Linguistic Nationalism
46. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
Challenges and Issues
free morpheme
3 methods of doing anthro
Ethnohistorical Research
47. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.
Unilineal Evolutionism
Political Economy
moral relativism
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
48. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself
linguistic anthropology
3 methods of doing anthro
culture shock
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
49. First attempt at anthropology - don't go anywhere. Sir James Frazer.
Armchair Anthropology
grammar
Political Economy
bound morpheme
50. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.
fieldwork
grammar
Armchair Anthropology
moral relativism