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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Written accounts of other observers






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






29. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






33. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






35. 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






36. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






40. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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