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Anthropology Concepts

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1. The study of the sound system of language






2. 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






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






4. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






5. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings






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






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






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






9. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups






10. Boas; the view that individual cultures must be studied and described in their own terms and understood within their own historical context. FRANK BOAS






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






22. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






26. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






28. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






29. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






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






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






34. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






37. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. Deals with the study of language in a cultural context






49. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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