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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.






2. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






3. 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






4. 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.






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






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. The study of speech sounds






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






15. The study of how languages change over time.






16. 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.






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. The study of the sound system of language






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






24. Struggle to keep a language pure






25. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






29. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






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






42. Struggle to keep a language pure






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






49. 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






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