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