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Anthropology Concepts

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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 two or more ways of life - comparative






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






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






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






6. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






10. The study of speech sounds






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






12. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






15. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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.






21. Struggle to keep a language pure






22. 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






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






24. Written accounts of other observers






25. The study of how languages change over time.






26. 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






27. 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






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






29. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






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






33. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






34. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






44. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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