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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.






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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






8. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






21. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






30. Written accounts of other observers






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






32. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






35. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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