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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Anthropologist's personal - long-term - experience with a social group of people and their way of life






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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






11. The study of the sound system of language






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






13. 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






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






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






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. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Written accounts of other observers






26. Struggle to keep a language pure






27. 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






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






29. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






33. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






36. Study of past human life and cultures






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






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






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






40. The study of speech sounds






41. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






42. 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






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






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. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






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






49. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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