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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Strongly held ideas and identities attached of a particular language






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






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






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. 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






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






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






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






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






10. The study of how languages change over time.






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






12. The study of speech sounds






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






14. Struggle to keep a language pure






15. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






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






29. The study of the sound system of language






30. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






33. Written accounts of other observers






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






42. The study of the sound system of language






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






49. Study of past human life and cultures






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







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