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Anthropology Concepts

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






2. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






12. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






14. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. 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






22. The study of the sound system of language






23. The study of how languages change over time.






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






25. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






28. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






31. Struggle to keep a language pure






32. 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






33. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






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






38. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. The study of speech sounds






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






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






49. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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