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Anthropology Concepts

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






2. Struggle to keep a language pure






3. 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.






4. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






6. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






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






40. The study of the sound system of language






41. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






50. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation







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