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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. The study of speech sounds






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






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






5. Written accounts of other observers






6. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






10. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






13. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Study of past human life and cultures






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. The study of how languages change over time.






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






34. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






37. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






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






44. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






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






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