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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
3 methods of doing anthro
fieldwork
syntax
Armchair Anthropology
2. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)
Speech Community
Diffusionism
Ethnohistorical Research
Ferdinand de Saussure
3. The study of speech sounds
Ethnohistorical Research
physical anthropology (aka biological)
Ethnohistorical Research
phonetics
4. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups
cultural relativism
linguistic anthropology
Descriptive Linguistics
ethnocentrism
5. 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.
Ferdinand de Saussure
grammar
phonology
Challenges and Issues
6. 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
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Functionalism
Design Features of Language
linguistic anthropology
7. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language
Ethnolinguistics
ethnocentrism
3 methods of doing anthro
Holistic Perspective
8. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Armchair Anthropology
ethnography
syntax
9. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life
Globalization of Language
syntax
Historical Particularism
fieldwork
10. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
Descriptive Linguistics
Interpretive Anthropology
Historical Linguistics
Functionalism
11. Enthographic Authority -- why should we believe what anthropologist is telling us - Representation - how experiences are translated for others
Ethnohistorical Research
Challenges and Issues
culture shock
physical anthropology (aka biological)
12. The smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language
phonemes
Globalization of Language
Ethnohistorical Research
cultural anthropology
13. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
linguistic anthropology
cultural relativism
free morpheme
Design Features of Language
14. The smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language
Sociolinguistics
Historical Particularism
Functionalism
phonemes
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
linguistic anthropology
Feminist Anthropology
Historical Particularism
cultural relativism
16. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
Linguistic Nationalism
Globalization of Language
ethnography
17. Everything that goes along with spoken language (volume - pitch - tone) and body language
Holistic Perspective
physical anthropology (aka biological)
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
morpheme
18. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
Descriptive Linguistics
ethnocentrism
Holistic Perspective
cultural anthropology
19. Boas; the view that individual cultures must be studied and described in their own terms and understood within their own historical context. FRANK BOAS
ethnography
ethnology
Globalization of Language
Historical Particularism
20. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.
Ethnolinguistics
ethnology
morphology
syntax
21. How variations in the beliefs and behaviors of different human groups are shaped by culture
physical anthropology (aka biological)
Globalization of Language
Descriptive Linguistics
cultural anthropology
22. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic
Sociolinguistics
cultural relativism
Ferdinand de Saussure
Historical Particularism
23. Strongly held ideas and identities attached of a particular language
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Political Economy
Linguistic Ideology
Cultural Ecology
24. The study of how languages change over time.
Unilineal Evolutionism
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
Ethnohistorical Research
Historical Linguistics
25. Strongly held ideas and identities attached of a particular language
morphology
fieldwork
archeology
Linguistic Ideology
26. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.
syntax
Ferdinand de Saussure
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Linguistic Ideology
27. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself
3 methods of doing anthro
cultural relativism
Linguistic Nationalism
Globalization of Language
28. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
Speech Community
Holistic Perspective
Historical Particularism
Cultural Ecology
29. 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.
Ferdinand de Saussure
free morpheme
Speech Community
Political Economy
30. First attempt at anthropology - don't go anywhere. Sir James Frazer.
Speech Community
Cultural Ecology
Unilineal Evolutionism
Armchair Anthropology
31. Struggle to keep a language pure
Linguistic Nationalism
Political Economy
bound morpheme
Speech Community
32. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
morpheme
Cultural Ecology
fieldwork
ethnography
33. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work
Globalization of Language
Political Economy
ethnography
culture shock
34. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
Linguistic Ideology
Unilineal Evolutionism
ethnocentrism
cultural relativism
35. Written accounts of other observers
Ethnohistorical Research
3 methods of doing anthro
cultural anthropology
Unilineal Evolutionism
36. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic
morphology
Sociolinguistics
morpheme
syntax
37. How variations in the beliefs and behaviors of different human groups are shaped by culture
Feminist Anthropology
phonemes
cultural anthropology
Speech Community
38. The study of the sound system of language
culture
Holistic Perspective
Globalization of Language
phonology
39. 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
phonology
culture shock
linguistic anthropology
culture
40. First attempt at anthropology - don't go anywhere. Sir James Frazer.
Armchair Anthropology
linguistic anthropology
archeology
Sociolinguistics
41. Culture everywhere evolves through a sequence of stages - savagery - barbarianism - civilized - LOUIS HENRY MORGAN
Unilineal Evolutionism
ethnology
Descriptive Linguistics
linguistic anthropology
42. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.
Speech Community
archeology
culture
Challenges and Issues
43. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups
cultural anthropology
bound morpheme
ethnocentrism
Unilineal Evolutionism
44. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life
fieldwork
Functionalism
Design Features of Language
phonemes
45. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone
moral relativism
bound morpheme
Interpretive Anthropology
free morpheme
46. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation
morphology
ethnography
moral relativism
phonetics
47. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.
grammar
moral relativism
linguistic anthropology
culture
48. Deals with the study of language in a cultural context
Linguistic Ideology
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
linguistic anthropology
fieldwork
49. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
moral relativism
3 methods of doing anthro
Feminist Anthropology
50. 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
morphology
Feminist Anthropology
cultural relativism
Globalization of Language