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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. The study of the sound system of language






20. 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






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






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






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






24. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






27. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






40. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






45. Written accounts of other observers






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






47. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






49. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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