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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. 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.






2. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.






3. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work






4. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life






5. The study of how languages change over time.






6. Everything that goes along with spoken language (volume - pitch - tone) and body language






7. The smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language






8. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture






9. Humans as biological organisms. includes genetics and forensics of non-human primates






10. Enthographic Authority -- why should we believe what anthropologist is telling us - Representation - how experiences are translated for others






11. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic






12. Culture everywhere evolves through a sequence of stages - savagery - barbarianism - civilized - LOUIS HENRY MORGAN






13. 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






14. Enthographic Authority -- why should we believe what anthropologist is telling us - Representation - how experiences are translated for others






15. The study of two or more ways of life - comparative






16. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture






17. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.






18. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work






19. The study of humanity in all possible ways. scientific and holistic






20. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.






21. 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






22. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms






23. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself






24. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.






25. 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






26. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.






27. 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






28. Struggle to keep a language pure






29. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic






30. In language - the smallest unit that carries meaning - free and bound






31. Charles Hockett - arbitrary - composed of discrete units - uses displacement - openness - prevarication






32. The smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language






33. Strongly held ideas and identities attached of a particular language






34. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






35. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.






36. 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






37. Charles Hockett - arbitrary - composed of discrete units - uses displacement - openness - prevarication






38. How variations in the beliefs and behaviors of different human groups are shaped by culture






39. The study of the sound system of language






40. Everything that goes along with spoken language (volume - pitch - tone) and body language






41. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)






42. Graebner and Elliott Smith. Theory that all societies change as a result of cultural borrowing from one another.






43. Study of past human life and cultures






44. 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






45. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it






46. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself






47. 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






48. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






49. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic






50. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life