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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. The study of speech sounds






16. 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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






27. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






30. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






34. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






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






39. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






48. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






49. Study of past human life and cultures






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