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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






5. The study of the sound system of language






6. Written accounts of other observers






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






8. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language






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






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






11. Written accounts of other observers






12. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






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






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






18. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






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






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






24. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






27. The study of the sound system of language






28. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






31. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






34. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






49. First attempt at anthropology - don't go anywhere. Sir James Frazer.






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