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Anthropology Concepts

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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






11. 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






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. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






14. 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






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






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






17. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






21. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






24. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






26. Written accounts of other observers






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






28. Struggle to keep a language pure






29. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. The study of speech sounds






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






37. 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.






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






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. 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






41. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






43. Written accounts of other observers






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






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






46. 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






47. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






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