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Anthropology Concepts

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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. 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






3. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






8. Written accounts of other observers






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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. The study of the sound system of language






18. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






21. The study of speech sounds






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






30. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. The study of speech sounds






36. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






39. 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






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






41. The study of how languages change over time.






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






43. The study of how languages change over time.






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






46. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






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