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Anthropology Concepts

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Study of past human life and cultures






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






9. Written accounts of other observers






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






11. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






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






16. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






20. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






26. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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.






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






45. 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






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






47. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






48. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






49. The study of speech sounds






50. 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