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