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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context - social - political - economic






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






3. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






6. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture






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






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






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






16. 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






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






18. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






34. The study of speech sounds






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






44. The study of how languages change over time.






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






46. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms






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






48. The notion that a persons language shapes her or his perception and view of the world - language determines culture






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






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