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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. The study of speech sounds






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






3. The study of speech sounds






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






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






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






23. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






26. 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.






27. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






32. The study of the sound system of language






33. 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.






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






35. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






37. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






43. The study of how languages change over time.






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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