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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.






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






3. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






4. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






32. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






35. The study of how languages change over time.






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






37. Written accounts of other observers






38. 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






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






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






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






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






43. Written accounts of other observers






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. Study of past human life and cultures