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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms






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






3. 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






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






5. 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






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






7. The study of speech sounds






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






9. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






11. Written accounts of other observers






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






13. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic






14. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






18. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






19. Study of past human life and cultures






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






34. All knowledge shared by those who are able to speak and understand language.






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Fit together all that is known about humans from all aspects of their lives. social - religious - economic - political - linguistic






44. 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






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






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






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






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