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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups






2. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. The study of how languages change over time.






11. 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






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






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






14. The study of the sound system of language






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






16. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






17. 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






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






19. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






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






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






24. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. The study of speech sounds






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






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






33. 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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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