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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)






2. The study of the sound system of language






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






11. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






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






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






31. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






35. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Study of past human life and cultures






45. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






47. Study of past human life and cultures






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






49. 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






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