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Anthropology Concepts

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






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






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






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






5. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. Study of past human life and cultures






13. 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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. The study of the sound system of language






25. 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






26. 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






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






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






29. The study of speech sounds






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






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






32. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. The study of speech sounds






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






48. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






49. 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






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