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Anthropology Concepts
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1. The scientific study of a spoken language - including its phonology - morphology - lexicon - and syntax.
syntax
phonetics
Descriptive Linguistics
Ethnolinguistics
2. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture
phonemes
Design Features of Language
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
Descriptive Linguistics
3. 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
culture shock
Functionalism
Feminist Anthropology
Descriptive Linguistics
4. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language
Speech Community
Ethnolinguistics
Diffusionism
Armchair Anthropology
5. Explored impact of powerful external forces especially colonialism and other forms of political and economic domination on cultural groups.
Challenges and Issues
Political Economy
syntax
anthropology
6. Graebner and Elliott Smith. Theory that all societies change as a result of cultural borrowing from one another.
morphology
phonetics
syntax
Diffusionism
7. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone
Ferdinand de Saussure
syntax
bound morpheme
linguistic anthropology
8. Study of past human life and cultures
linguistic anthropology
archeology
Linguistic Nationalism
Ferdinand de Saussure
9. Ethnohistorical Research - written accounts of other observers - Ethnology - data - Enthographic fieldwork - going somewhere - working and living w/ people - immerse yourself
3 methods of doing anthro
Historical Linguistics
linguistic anthropology
phonetics
10. Deals with the study of language in a cultural context
phonology
linguistic anthropology
Speech Community
phonetics
11. Community of individuals who regularly interact verbally with one another (Dell Hymes)
linguistic anthropology
Speech Community
Linguistic Ideology
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
12. Deals with the study of language in a cultural context
linguistic anthropology
ethnography
morpheme
Cultural Ecology
13. First attempt at anthropology - don't go anywhere. Sir James Frazer.
Linguistic Nationalism
code-switching
Armchair Anthropology
ethnocentrism
14. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic
culture shock
Cultural Ecology
Sociolinguistics
free morpheme
15. How variations in the beliefs and behaviors of different human groups are shaped by culture
linguistic anthropology
Diffusionism
cultural anthropology
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
16. 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.
culture
Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
17. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.
phonetics
culture
Ethnolinguistics
grammar
18. Grammatical unit that can stand alone
Speech Community
bound morpheme
moral relativism
free morpheme
19. Strongly held ideas and identities attached of a particular language
phonemes
syntax
Linguistic Ideology
cultural relativism
20. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language
Ethnolinguistics
fieldwork
morpheme
physical anthropology (aka biological)
21. The study of speech sounds
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
phonetics
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
Descriptive Linguistics
22. Charles Hockett - arbitrary - composed of discrete units - uses displacement - openness - prevarication
Design Features of Language
Descriptive Linguistics
morphology
Historical Particularism
23. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic
Sociolinguistics
anthropology
Descriptive Linguistics
morphology
24. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
Holistic Perspective
phonetics
physical anthropology (aka biological)
Design Features of Language
25. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.
cultural relativism
culture
Design Features of Language
phonemes
26. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.
phonemes
ethnocentrism
cultural anthropology
syntax
27. The notion that whatever other people do is probably acceptable if they have their owns reasons for doing it
moral relativism
Speech Community
cultural anthropology
Historical Linguistics
28. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone
Armchair Anthropology
cultural anthropology
bound morpheme
morphology
29. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups
phonemes
ethnocentrism
Diffusionism
Ethnohistorical Research
30. Written accounts of other observers
Linguistic Ideology
Ethnohistorical Research
Functionalism
Ethnolinguistics
31. A single language dominates - but elements of another language are intertwined (code mixing)
phonetics
Globalization of Language
code-switching
culture
32. Struggle to keep a language pure
Linguistic Nationalism
Feminist Anthropology
Challenges and Issues
Ferdinand de Saussure
33. Set of learned behaviors and ideas that are acquired by people living in a society.
moral relativism
culture
free morpheme
cultural anthropology
34. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture
morphology
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
Ethnolinguistics
fieldwork
35. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation
morphology
syntax
Ethnohistorical Research
ethnology
36. Focuses on how societies use culture to adapt to particular ecological settings
Cultural Ecology
cultural relativism
Ethnolinguistics
bound morpheme
37. The study of two or more ways of life - comparative
Interpretive Anthropology
ethnology
3 methods of doing anthro
code-switching
38. A book written about a single culture or way of life - a product of your field work
Holistic Perspective
ethnography
Design Features of Language
Armchair Anthropology
39. Everything that goes along with spoken language (volume - pitch - tone) and body language
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
anthropology
moral relativism
Ethnohistorical Research
40. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups
Sapir - Whorf Hypothesis
Holistic Perspective
ethnocentrism
Feminist Anthropology
41. The study of humanity in all possible ways. scientific and holistic
anthropology
ethnography
morpheme
Linguistic Nationalism
42. 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
Challenges and Issues
Interpretive Anthropology
ethnography
phonetics
43. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic
bound morpheme
Holistic Perspective
morphology
ethnology
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
Linguistic Ideology
Feminist Anthropology
Historical Linguistics
Cultural Ecology
45. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
Ethnohistorical Research
cultural relativism
Diffusionism
cultural anthropology
46. 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
Political Economy
ethnography
culture shock
culture
47. 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 anthropology
Historical Particularism
Ethnohistorical Research
Paralanguage and (Body Language)
48. The smallest units of sound in a language that are distinctive for speakers of the language
fieldwork
Functionalism
phonemes
Design Features of Language
49. Sentence - grammatical structure - (Chomsky) refers to how meaning is created through word order in a sentence or phrase.
Interpretive Anthropology
syntax
physical anthropology (aka biological)
anthropology
50. Humans as biological organisms. includes genetics and forensics of non-human primates
phonetics
Historical Particularism
physical anthropology (aka biological)
Sociolinguistics