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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






11. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






13. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






16. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






21. The study of how languages change over time.






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






23. 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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Written accounts of other observers






44. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






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






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






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






50. The study of speech sounds