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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. The study of how languages change over time.






42. The study of the sound system of language






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






44. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






47. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






50. Written accounts of other observers