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Anthropology Concepts
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1. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
Cultural Ecology
ethnocentrism
Historical Linguistics
Holistic Perspective
2. Enthographic Authority -- why should we believe what anthropologist is telling us - Representation - how experiences are translated for others
Cultural Ecology
Challenges and Issues
Ferdinand de Saussure
phonetics
3. Humans as biological organisms. includes genetics and forensics of non-human primates
Ferdinand de Saussure
3 methods of doing anthro
physical anthropology (aka biological)
Historical Particularism
4. The study of speech sounds
phonetics
fieldwork
anthropology
Functionalism
5. 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
Armchair Anthropology
morphology
Design Features of Language
Feminist Anthropology
6. Struggle to keep a language pure
ethnocentrism
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
Functionalism
Linguistic Nationalism
7. 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
Unilineal Evolutionism
cultural relativism
ethnography
culture shock
8. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
Holistic Perspective
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
cultural anthropology
free morpheme
9. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
ethnology
Globalization of Language
Speech Community
10. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
archeology
culture
Holistic Perspective
Historical Particularism
11. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work
Armchair Anthropology
cultural relativism
ethnography
free morpheme
12. 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
culture
Ethnolinguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
Feminist Anthropology
13. 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.
code-switching
Functionalism
Ferdinand de Saussure
fieldwork
14. The study of the sound system of language
free morpheme
phonology
Interpretive Anthropology
culture
15. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
fieldwork
anthropology
Descriptive Linguistics
phonemes
16. Charles Hockett - arbitrary - composed of discrete units - uses displacement - openness - prevarication
Ethnohistorical Research
syntax
anthropology
Design Features of Language
17. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language
Ethnolinguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
linguistic anthropology
Ferdinand de Saussure
18. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic
Sociolinguistics
grammar
Feminist Anthropology
moral relativism
19. Struggle to keep a language pure
Ethnolinguistics
Linguistic Nationalism
phonology
moral relativism
20. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
morphology
Diffusionism
culture
21. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic
Sociolinguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
anthropology
Armchair Anthropology
22. The study of the sound system of language
Political Economy
physical anthropology (aka biological)
phonology
syntax
23. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it
cultural anthropology
Armchair Anthropology
Globalization of Language
moral relativism
24. Boas; the view that individual cultures must be studied and described in their own terms and understood within their own historical context. FRANK BOAS
Holistic Perspective
syntax
Historical Particularism
Political Economy
25. 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
Functionalism
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Descriptive Linguistics
physical anthropology (aka biological)
26. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
3 methods of doing anthro
Ferdinand de Saussure
cultural relativism
culture shock
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
Ethnohistorical Research
archeology
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
28. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it
culture
physical anthropology (aka biological)
phonetics
moral relativism
29. How variations in the beliefs and behaviors of different human groups are shaped by culture
syntax
phonemes
cultural anthropology
Globalization of Language
30. 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
Interpretive Anthropology
code-switching
Linguistic Nationalism
Ethnolinguistics
31. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)
physical anthropology (aka biological)
Descriptive Linguistics
Unilineal Evolutionism
Globalization of Language
32. Written accounts of other observers
phonemes
Holistic Perspective
Ethnohistorical Research
archeology
33. Charles Hockett - arbitrary - composed of discrete units - uses displacement - openness - prevarication
ethnography
Design Features of Language
culture
linguistic anthropology
34. Study of past human life and cultures
morpheme
phonemes
archeology
Sociolinguistics
35. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)
Ethnolinguistics
anthropology
Design Features of Language
Speech Community
36. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups
Armchair Anthropology
ethnocentrism
Political Economy
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
37. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life
fieldwork
phonemes
ethnocentrism
Descriptive Linguistics
38. The study of two or more ways of life - comparative
ethnology
phonetics
ethnocentrism
physical anthropology (aka biological)
39. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.
Political Economy
syntax
Ethnolinguistics
moral relativism
40. In language - the smallest unit that carries meaning - free and bound
Diffusionism
Cultural Ecology
morpheme
ethnocentrism
41. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
Challenges and Issues
Descriptive Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
ethnography
42. Study of past human life and cultures
3 methods of doing anthro
3 methods of doing anthro
Functionalism
archeology
43. 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
Historical Particularism
code-switching
3 methods of doing anthro
44. Everything that goes along with spoken language (volume - pitch - tone) and body language
ethnography
linguistic anthropology
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Speech Community
45. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.
grammar
Ferdinand de Saussure
bound morpheme
anthropology
46. Culture everywhere evolves through a sequence of stages - savagery - barbarianism - civilized - LOUIS HENRY MORGAN
cultural anthropology
Unilineal Evolutionism
phonetics
Feminist Anthropology
47. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture
anthropology
phonetics
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
fieldwork
48. 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
Interpretive Anthropology
Unilineal Evolutionism
fieldwork
49. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
Cultural Ecology
code-switching
Descriptive Linguistics
ethnology
50. First attempt at anthropology - don't go anywhere. Sir James Frazer.
Armchair Anthropology
Speech Community
Design Features of Language
3 methods of doing anthro