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Anthropology Concepts
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1. The smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language
Descriptive Linguistics
cultural anthropology
phonemes
Diffusionism
2. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work
Design Features of Language
bound morpheme
Design Features of Language
ethnography
3. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it
moral relativism
ethnocentrism
Design Features of Language
morphology
4. 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
cultural relativism
Ethnohistorical Research
culture shock
Ethnolinguistics
5. 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
phonetics
archeology
cultural anthropology
Interpretive Anthropology
6. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.
grammar
syntax
ethnocentrism
Linguistic Ideology
7. Study of past human life and cultures
Unilineal Evolutionism
morphology
Design Features of Language
archeology
8. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work
Functionalism
Descriptive Linguistics
cultural relativism
ethnography
9. Enthographic Authority -- why should we believe what anthropologist is telling us - Representation - how experiences are translated for others
free morpheme
Challenges and Issues
Holistic Perspective
phonetics
10. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation
ethnology
ethnocentrism
morphology
phonemes
11. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture
phonetics
morpheme
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
grammar
12. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
Linguistic Nationalism
Holistic Perspective
physical anthropology (aka biological)
phonemes
13. The study of how languages change over time.
Historical Particularism
physical anthropology (aka biological)
3 methods of doing anthro
Historical Linguistics
14. 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
fieldwork
cultural anthropology
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
15. The study of speech sounds
culture
Historical Linguistics
Linguistic Ideology
phonetics
16. 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
linguistic anthropology
Holistic Perspective
Interpretive Anthropology
17. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone
bound morpheme
Linguistic Ideology
morpheme
Feminist Anthropology
18. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)
cultural relativism
Speech Community
Political Economy
phonetics
19. Written accounts of other observers
Ethnohistorical Research
ethnography
anthropology
grammar
20. First attempt at anthropology - don't go anywhere. Sir James Frazer.
Interpretive Anthropology
physical anthropology (aka biological)
anthropology
Armchair Anthropology
21. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)
Ethnolinguistics
code-switching
Globalization of Language
Speech Community
22. Charles Hockett - arbitrary - composed of discrete units - uses displacement - openness - prevarication
free morpheme
physical anthropology (aka biological)
code-switching
Design Features of Language
23. Everything that goes along with spoken language (volume - pitch - tone) and body language
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Speech Community
Historical Linguistics
Feminist Anthropology
24. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
Political Economy
Diffusionism
Descriptive Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
25. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
Cultural Ecology
morphology
Historical Linguistics
bound morpheme
26. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it
moral relativism
culture shock
Linguistic Nationalism
Political Economy
27. Deals with the study of language in a cultural context
physical anthropology (aka biological)
Interpretive Anthropology
Historical Linguistics
linguistic anthropology
28. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself
Historical Linguistics
3 methods of doing anthro
culture
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
29. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.
syntax
phonemes
anthropology
culture
30. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
code-switching
Ethnolinguistics
Holistic Perspective
linguistic anthropology
31. Struggle to keep a language pure
phonology
Linguistic Nationalism
code-switching
ethnology
32. 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
ethnology
code-switching
Feminist Anthropology
Speech Community
33. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language
Design Features of Language
Ethnolinguistics
syntax
Political Economy
34. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
archeology
anthropology
Cultural Ecology
culture shock
35. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
grammar
Descriptive Linguistics
Globalization of Language
Political Economy
36. 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
free morpheme
ethnography
code-switching
Linguistic Nationalism
37. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)
Diffusionism
cultural relativism
Speech Community
syntax
38. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)
Armchair Anthropology
moral relativism
morphology
Globalization of Language
39. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
ethnography
ethnology
ethnocentrism
free morpheme
40. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture
cultural relativism
Ethnohistorical Research
Design Features of Language
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
41. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.
Political Economy
code-switching
phonemes
grammar
42. Struggle to keep a language pure
morphology
Historical Linguistics
moral relativism
Linguistic Nationalism
43. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
bound morpheme
free morpheme
Cultural Ecology
ethnology
44. How variations in the beliefs and behaviors of different human groups are shaped by culture
code-switching
cultural anthropology
Linguistic Nationalism
Diffusionism
45. Humans as biological organisms. includes genetics and forensics of non-human primates
physical anthropology (aka biological)
Design Features of Language
Sociolinguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
46. Culture everywhere evolves through a sequence of stages - savagery - barbarianism - civilized - LOUIS HENRY MORGAN
Ethnolinguistics
code-switching
culture shock
Unilineal Evolutionism
47. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Political Economy
archeology
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
48. Boas; the view that individual cultures must be studied and described in their own terms and understood within their own historical context. FRANK BOAS
code-switching
linguistic anthropology
Historical Particularism
archeology
49. 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
ethnology
cultural anthropology
Interpretive Anthropology
Unilineal Evolutionism
50. The study of the sound system of language
morphology
Unilineal Evolutionism
Diffusionism
phonology