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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. The smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language






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






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






4. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






14. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. Struggle to keep a language pure






22. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






32. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






33. Study of past human life and cultures






34. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






36. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






40. Study of past human life and cultures






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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