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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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. 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






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.






30. 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






31. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






35. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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