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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






2. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






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






25. Study of past human life and cultures






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. 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






35. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






39. Written accounts of other observers






40. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






43. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






45. Written accounts of other observers






46. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






47. The study of how languages change over time.






48. 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






49. The study of speech sounds






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