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Anthropology Concepts
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1. Enthographic Authority -- why should we believe what anthropologist is telling us - Representation - how experiences are translated for others
Challenges and Issues
Ethnohistorical Research
cultural relativism
Historical Particularism
2. How variations in the beliefs and behaviors of different human groups are shaped by culture
culture
Ferdinand de Saussure
cultural anthropology
culture shock
3. 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
Armchair Anthropology
culture shock
Ethnolinguistics
ethnology
4. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself
3 methods of doing anthro
Holistic Perspective
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
anthropology
5. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Speech Community
culture
Ethnolinguistics
6. Charles Hockett - arbitrary - composed of discrete units - uses displacement - openness - prevarication
moral relativism
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
Design Features of Language
Descriptive Linguistics
7. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life
Globalization of Language
ethnology
Challenges and Issues
fieldwork
8. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.
Globalization of Language
morphology
bound morpheme
culture
9. The study of how languages change over time.
Historical Linguistics
anthropology
Descriptive Linguistics
culture
10. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work
ethnography
3 methods of doing anthro
grammar
Descriptive Linguistics
11. Deals with the study of language in a cultural context
Ferdinand de Saussure
linguistic anthropology
archeology
Sociolinguistics
12. Humans as biological organisms. includes genetics and forensics of non-human primates
Sociolinguistics
Cultural Ecology
cultural relativism
physical anthropology (aka biological)
13. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language
cultural relativism
Feminist Anthropology
Ethnolinguistics
Descriptive Linguistics
14. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
morphology
Descriptive Linguistics
Speech Community
phonology
15. The study of the sound system of language
syntax
phonology
Sociolinguistics
phonetics
16. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
Cultural Ecology
Historical Particularism
bound morpheme
syntax
17. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it
phonemes
culture
physical anthropology (aka biological)
moral relativism
18. 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.
Ferdinand de Saussure
ethnocentrism
Historical Particularism
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
19. 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.
culture shock
anthropology
Interpretive Anthropology
Ferdinand de Saussure
20. Boas; the view that individual cultures must be studied and described in their own terms and understood within their own historical context. FRANK BOAS
Political Economy
ethnography
Historical Particularism
Interpretive Anthropology
21. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic
Political Economy
Ferdinand de Saussure
culture shock
Sociolinguistics
22. The study of speech sounds
Unilineal Evolutionism
Linguistic Nationalism
phonetics
culture shock
23. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.
linguistic anthropology
fieldwork
Cultural Ecology
syntax
24. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)
cultural anthropology
Speech Community
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
cultural relativism
25. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
ethnocentrism
grammar
free morpheme
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
26. Study of past human life and cultures
moral relativism
Ethnohistorical Research
archeology
anthropology
27. Deals with the study of language in a cultural context
Armchair Anthropology
linguistic anthropology
Unilineal Evolutionism
physical anthropology (aka biological)
28. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone
bound morpheme
anthropology
Design Features of Language
Descriptive Linguistics
29. 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
Feminist Anthropology
syntax
morpheme
cultural relativism
30. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)
culture shock
Challenges and Issues
Globalization of Language
cultural relativism
31. 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
Linguistic Ideology
Feminist Anthropology
Design Features of Language
code-switching
32. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation
morphology
Design Features of Language
Linguistic Ideology
syntax
33. First attempt at anthropology - don't go anywhere. Sir James Frazer.
culture
Diffusionism
culture
Armchair Anthropology
34. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
Descriptive Linguistics
Diffusionism
Political Economy
Speech Community
35. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups
Feminist Anthropology
Globalization of Language
ethnocentrism
Linguistic Ideology
36. Culture everywhere evolves through a sequence of stages - savagery - barbarianism - civilized - LOUIS HENRY MORGAN
morpheme
Historical Linguistics
grammar
Unilineal Evolutionism
37. 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
Interpretive Anthropology
cultural relativism
Historical Particularism
Feminist Anthropology
38. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.
ethnocentrism
Political Economy
Feminist Anthropology
cultural anthropology
39. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
cultural relativism
grammar
archeology
Ethnohistorical Research
40. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
Cultural Ecology
cultural relativism
ethnology
Ethnolinguistics
41. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it
grammar
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
moral relativism
Sociolinguistics
42. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life
Speech Community
fieldwork
bound morpheme
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
43. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone
anthropology
Diffusionism
bound morpheme
Design Features of Language
44. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture
Diffusionism
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
moral relativism
Ethnolinguistics
45. The study of the sound system of language
phonology
Unilineal Evolutionism
3 methods of doing anthro
syntax
46. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation
ethnocentrism
morphology
cultural relativism
Globalization of Language
47. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
free morpheme
anthropology
grammar
physical anthropology (aka biological)
48. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
ethnology
Holistic Perspective
moral relativism
Ethnolinguistics
49. Graebner and Elliott Smith. Theory that all societies change as a result of cultural borrowing from one another.
Linguistic Ideology
Challenges and Issues
morpheme
Diffusionism
50. Graebner and Elliott Smith. Theory that all societies change as a result of cultural borrowing from one another.
Diffusionism
bound morpheme
Descriptive Linguistics
phonetics