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Anthropology Concepts

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






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






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






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






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






6. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






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






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






11. The study of speech sounds






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






13. The study of speech sounds






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






15. 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






16. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Struggle to keep a language pure






34. Study of past human life and cultures






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






49. Struggle to keep a language pure






50. The study of the sound system of language