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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






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






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






13. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






16. 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






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






18. Written accounts of other observers






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






20. 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.






21. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






23. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






26. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






29. 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






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






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






32. The study of the sound system of language






33. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






36. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. The study of speech sounds






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