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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.






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






3. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






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






8. The study of how languages change over time.






9. 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






10. Study of past human life and cultures






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






12. Study of past human life and cultures






13. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






24. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






28. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






29. The study of speech sounds






30. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






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






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.






36. Enthographic Authority -- why should we believe what anthropologist is telling us - Representation - how experiences are translated for others






37. Enthographic Authority -- why should we believe what anthropologist is telling us - Representation - how experiences are translated for others






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






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






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






46. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






50. Written accounts of other observers