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