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Anthropology Concepts

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






2. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. Written accounts of other observers






24. Struggle to keep a language pure






25. 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






26. The study of speech sounds






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






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






29. Study of past human life and cultures






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






31. 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






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






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 how languages change over time.






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






36. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






50. 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