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Anthropology 2 1-5

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Franz Boaz Made Anthropology courses common in college ind university curricula.
Globalization Worldwide interconnectedness, evidenced in global movements of natural resources, trade goods, human labor,finance capital, information, and infectious diseases.
Culture-bound assumptions Looking at the work and reality based on the assumptions and values of one's one culture.
Four fields of anthropology Physical (biological), archaeology, linguistic, cultural
Cultural resource Management A brance of archaeology tied to government policies for the protection of cultural resurces and involving surveying and or excavating archaeological and historical remains threatened by construction or development.
Code of Ethics of American Anthro Society Anthropological researchers mujst do everything in their power to ensure that their research doesn't harm the safety, dignity, or privacy of the people whith whom they work,conduct research, or perform other professional activities.
Subculture A distinctive set of ideas, values, and behavior patterns by which a group within a larger society operates, while still sharing common standards with that larger society.
Pluralisty society A society in which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territoryl state but maintain their cultural differences.
adaptation A complex of ideas, activiteis,and technologies that enables people to survive and even thrive in their environnment.
enculturation The proscess by which a society's culture is pased on from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Characteristics of culture Culture is learned, shared set of values iedas , perceptions and standard of behavior, shared but not uniform
Cultural relativism The idea that one must suspend judgment of other people's practives in order to understand them in therir own cultural terms.
Ethnocentrism Making value judgements about another culture from the perspective of ones own culture
Advocacy Anthorpology Research that is community based and politically involved.
urgent anthropology Ethronographic research that documents endangered cultures also known as salvage ethnography
Applied anthropology Use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems in communities confronting new challenges.
Acculturation Process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviors of another group
Fieldwork On location research
Ethnography A detailed descripton of a peaticular culture parimarily based on fieldwork
Qulalitative V Quantitative Data Quantative is statistical or mesuarable information and qualatative is nonstatistical information sucah a personal life stories and customary beliefs and practices.
Participant observation Learning abour a group's behaviors and beliefs through social involvment and personal observaion within the community as well as interviews and discussion with members of the group.
Phoneme v. morpheme phoneme - smallest units of sount that make a differentc in meaning in a language, morpheme smallest unit of sount that carry a meaning in language. Distinct form phoneme which can alter menaing but have no meaning by themselves.
Grammar The entire formal structure of a langurge, including morphology and syntax
sociolinguistics The study of the relationship between language and socieyt through examining how social categories, age, gender, etc. influence, the use and significance of disgtincive stules of speech.
Kinesics and proxemics Kinesics - a system of notating and analyzing postures, facial exprssions, and body motions that convey messages. Proxemics- Cross-cultural study of people's perception and use of space
Linguistic determinism The idea that language to some extent shapes the way in which we view and think about the world around us.
Glottochronology In linguistics, a method for identifying the approximate time that languages branched off from a common ancestor; based on analyzing core vocabularies.
Core Vocab The most basic and long lasting words in any language-pronouns, lower numerals, and names for body parts and natural objects.
Tonal language A language in which the sound pitch of a spoken word is an essential part of its pronunciation and meaning.
Code Switching 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.
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