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Anthropology Test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Phonology | Study of sounds used in speech |
| Morphology | Study of form; used in linguistics and for form in general |
| Lexicon | Vocabulary |
| Syntax | Arrangement and order of words and phrases |
| Phoneme | Sound contrast that serves to distinguish meaning |
| Anthropology | Study of humans; non-western perspective (industry/philosophy) |
| What is leadership? | A pyramid |
| Physical/Biological Anthropology | Study of the origins, evolution, and biological nature of humans |
| Cultural Anthropology | Study of the cultures of the present |
| Linguistic Anthropology | Study of languages and how they relate to culture |
| Archeology | Study of past humans and cultures through remains, analyze and interpret data |
| Applied Anthropology | Solving real world problems |
| What are the big three? | Learned, shared, symbolic |
| Cultural Universals | Features of a culture that each culture has |
| Ethnocentrism | Thinking your culture is superior/central norm |
| Culture Generalizations | Broad characteristics about a culture |
| Culture Particularities | Unique aspects to that culture |
| Civic Culture | Political/government/legal/religious system |
| Public Culture | Social tendencies in public |
| Cultural Relativism | Looking at all angles before judging; don't judge cultures based on yours |
| Acultration | Exchange of cultural features |
| Enculturation | Culture you're born into |
| Ethnography | Study done in the field |
| Ethnic Group | Group distinguished by cultural similarities and differences |
| Ethnicity | Identification with and feeling apart of, an ethnic group, and exclusion from certain other groups because of this affiliation |
| Ethnographic | Relating to the scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits, and mutual differences |
| Ethnology | Compares cultures |
| Social Science | Scientific study of human society and social relationships |
| Culture | Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs |
| CRM | Branch of applied archaeology aimed to preserve sites threatened by projects |
| Symbol | Something that stands for something else with no necessary/natural connection |
| Subcultures | Different cultural symbol-based traditions associated with subgroups associated with subgroups in the same complex society |
| Participant Observation | Characteristic ethnographic technique; taking part in the events one is observing |
| Emic View | Research strategy that emphasizes the observer's rather than the natives' |
| Etic View | Research strategy that emphasizes the natives' rather than the observer's |
| Longitudinal Research | Long-term study of a community; taking research question "big time" |
| Norming | Deciphering body language for a certain person |
| What percentage of what we convey is through body language? | 93% and 7% is verbal |
| Key Cultural Consultant | An expert on a particular aspect of a local life who helps the ethnographer understand that aspect |
| Genealogical Method | Procedures by which ethnographers discover and record connections of kinship, descent, and marriage, using diagrams and symbols |
| Sociolinguistics | Study of language in its social context |
| Linguistic Diversity | A way to talk about varied types of traits including language, family, grammar, and vocabulary |
| Language Death | A process in which the level of a speech community's linguistic competence in their language variety decreases, eventually resulting in no native/fluent speakers of the variety |
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