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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)






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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






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






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






8. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






11. The study of how languages change over time.






12. 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






13. Study of past human life and cultures






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






15. 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






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






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






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






19. Struggle to keep a language pure






20. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






22. The study of speech sounds






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






24. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






27. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






37. 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






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






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






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






41. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






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






46. The study of the sound system of language






47. 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






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






49. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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