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Anthropology Concepts

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






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






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






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






6. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






9. Study of past human life and cultures






10. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






12. Study of past human life and cultures






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Written accounts of other observers






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






27. 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






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






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






30. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






32. 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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






40. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






43. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






45. 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






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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