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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. 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






2. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






5. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






10. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






13. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






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






17. Struggle to keep a language pure






18. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






31. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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






47. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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