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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






11. 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






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






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






14. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






20. The study of the sound system of language






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






22. Written accounts of other observers






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






24. Struggle to keep a language pure






25. 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






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






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






28. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






29. 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






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






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






32. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






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






37. The study of the sound system of language






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






39. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






43. Study of past human life and cultures






44. 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






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






46. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






48. 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






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






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