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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






7. The study of speech sounds






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






14. The study of humanity in all possible ways. scientific and holistic






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






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






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






18. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Analyzing the relationship between culture - thought - and language






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






28. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






29. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






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






34. Struggle to keep a language pure






35. Struggle to keep a language pure






36. 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






37. The study of how languages change over time.






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. The study of humanity in all possible ways. scientific and holistic






46. Written accounts of other observers






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






48. 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.






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






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