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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. Struggle to keep a language pure






8. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






13. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






17. Study of past human life and cultures






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






19. The study of the sound system of language






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






21. 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






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






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






24. 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






25. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






29. 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






30. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






34. The study of the sound system of language






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






36. The study of speech sounds






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






38. The study of how languages change over time.






39. The study of speech sounds






40. The study of how languages change over time.






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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