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