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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






2. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






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






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






27. The study of how languages change over time.






28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. The study of speech sounds






34. 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






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






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






37. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. Study of past human life and cultures






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






47. 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






48. The study of speech sounds






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






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