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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms






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






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






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. The study of the sound system of language






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






7. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






11. Written accounts of other observers






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






13. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






15. 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.






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






17. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






19. 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






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






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






22. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






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






27. 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






28. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. Study of past human life and cultures






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






37. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






41. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






43. 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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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