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Anthropology Concepts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Struggle to keep a language pure
Feminist Anthropology
Linguistic Nationalism
fieldwork
morphology
2. Charles Hockett - arbitrary - composed of discrete units - uses displacement - openness - prevarication
Design Features of Language
Unilineal Evolutionism
cultural anthropology
Descriptive Linguistics
3. 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
Functionalism
Historical Linguistics
Ethnolinguistics
Interpretive Anthropology
4. How variations in the beliefs and behaviors of different human groups are shaped by culture
morpheme
Feminist Anthropology
cultural anthropology
phonemes
5. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)
cultural relativism
Interpretive Anthropology
Globalization of Language
cultural anthropology
6. Enthographic Authority -- why should we believe what anthropologist is telling us - Representation - how experiences are translated for others
Unilineal Evolutionism
bound morpheme
Holistic Perspective
Challenges and Issues
7. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic
3 methods of doing anthro
Sociolinguistics
Historical Linguistics
Speech Community
8. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation
morphology
culture
Feminist Anthropology
Cultural Ecology
9. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it
phonology
moral relativism
Historical Particularism
Linguistic Ideology
10. First attempt at anthropology - don't go anywhere. Sir James Frazer.
code-switching
Descriptive Linguistics
Armchair Anthropology
Feminist Anthropology
11. 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
archeology
Feminist Anthropology
anthropology
code-switching
12. Strongly held ideas and identities attached of a particular language
Cultural Ecology
Political Economy
Linguistic Ideology
Descriptive Linguistics
13. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.
Design Features of Language
Speech Community
linguistic anthropology
culture
14. The smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language
phonemes
anthropology
anthropology
Armchair Anthropology
15. The study of speech sounds
bound morpheme
culture
phonetics
Descriptive Linguistics
16. 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
culture shock
free morpheme
Linguistic Ideology
Unilineal Evolutionism
17. The study of two or more ways of life - comparative
Unilineal Evolutionism
Linguistic Ideology
ethnography
ethnology
18. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
morpheme
Cultural Ecology
Linguistic Ideology
code-switching
19. 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
Linguistic Nationalism
code-switching
cultural relativism
Ethnohistorical Research
20. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
Armchair Anthropology
Ferdinand de Saussure
ethnocentrism
Holistic Perspective
21. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.
culture shock
phonemes
syntax
Linguistic Nationalism
22. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)
fieldwork
ethnology
Sociolinguistics
Globalization of Language
23. 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
moral relativism
ethnocentrism
Diffusionism
Functionalism
24. Struggle to keep a language pure
Holistic Perspective
Design Features of Language
Linguistic Nationalism
Sociolinguistics
25. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.
code-switching
grammar
Ferdinand de Saussure
Diffusionism
26. Strongly held ideas and identities attached of a particular language
linguistic anthropology
morpheme
cultural relativism
Linguistic Ideology
27. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
physical anthropology (aka biological)
fieldwork
free morpheme
28. Deals with the study of language in a cultural context
linguistic anthropology
Linguistic Ideology
Linguistic Nationalism
Ferdinand de Saussure
29. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups
Cultural Ecology
phonology
physical anthropology (aka biological)
ethnocentrism
30. The study of how languages change over time.
ethnocentrism
Historical Particularism
Design Features of Language
Historical Linguistics
31. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.
linguistic anthropology
phonemes
culture
culture shock
32. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture
fieldwork
syntax
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
Interpretive Anthropology
33. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself
Ferdinand de Saussure
Diffusionism
grammar
3 methods of doing anthro
34. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
Ethnolinguistics
phonology
cultural anthropology
free morpheme
35. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life
Feminist Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
fieldwork
ethnography
36. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups
syntax
Linguistic Ideology
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
ethnocentrism
37. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.
Holistic Perspective
syntax
cultural relativism
anthropology
38. Graebner and Elliott Smith. Theory that all societies change as a result of cultural borrowing from one another.
Linguistic Ideology
Diffusionism
Interpretive Anthropology
bound morpheme
39. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation
morphology
Interpretive Anthropology
Linguistic Ideology
Historical Particularism
40. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.
grammar
Interpretive Anthropology
ethnology
Political Economy
41. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life
archeology
fieldwork
culture
morpheme
42. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
grammar
morpheme
Descriptive Linguistics
culture
43. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)
Speech Community
anthropology
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
cultural anthropology
44. Humans as biological organisms. includes genetics and forensics of non-human primates
Linguistic Nationalism
physical anthropology (aka biological)
phonology
linguistic anthropology
45. The study of humanity in all possible ways. scientific and holistic
free morpheme
anthropology
moral relativism
Sociolinguistics
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
Linguistic Nationalism
Descriptive Linguistics
moral relativism
Historical Particularism
47. 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
Design Features of Language
linguistic anthropology
cultural relativism
culture shock
48. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone
bound morpheme
cultural anthropology
cultural relativism
grammar
49. Study of past human life and cultures
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
free morpheme
Armchair Anthropology
archeology
50. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic
Sociolinguistics
archeology
phonology
Unilineal Evolutionism