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Anthropology Concepts

Subject : humanities
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1. Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms






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






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






4. The study of speech sounds






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






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






7. The study of how languages change over time.






8. 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






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






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






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






12. The study of speech sounds






13. 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






14. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






15. Struggle to keep a language pure






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






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






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






19. Written accounts of other observers






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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. The study of the sound system of language






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. Grammatical unit that cannot stand alone






36. Grammatical unit that can stand alone






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Rules for combining and morphemes - word formation






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






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






50. 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