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Anthropology Concepts

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1. The study of speech sounds






2. The study of how languages change over time.






3. Study of past human life and cultures






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. The study of the sound system of language






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






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






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






23. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






28. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






29. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






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






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






34. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






36. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






40. Written accounts of other observers






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






42. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






44. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






46. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






49. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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







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