Anthropolgy
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- ABORIGINAL
- one of the original or earliest known inhabitants of a country or region.
- 4 FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
- Archaeology, Physical anthropology (bones), Linguistics, and social/cultural anthropology (behavior/psychology)
- Adamic View of Language
- Language merely reflects the world
- BIPEDALISM
- walking on two legs
- CLASS
- hierarchical distinctions (or stratification) between individuals or groups in societies or cultures.
- COMMUNICATION (vs language)
- the activity of conveying information
- COSMOLOGY
- View of the universe
- CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, people living in different places or different circumstances develop different cultures.
- CULTURAL RELATIVATY
- beliefs and activities should be understood in terms of his or her own culture.
- CULTURE
- human capacity to classify and represent experiences symbolically, and to act imaginatively and creatively; second, it referred to distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively.
- CYBERSPACE
- virtual community
- ENDANGERED LANGUAGE
- language at risk of falling out of use
- ETHNICITY
- people with distinct cultural identities
- ETHNOCENTRISM
- Ethnocentrism often entails the belief that one's own race or ethnic group is the most important and/or that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups.
- ETHNOLOGY
- Analysis of a scociety after fieldwork is done
- FUNCTIONALISM
- views society as a system of interdependent parts whose functions contribute to the stability and survival of the system.
- LIMINALITY
- the transitional period or phase of a rite of passage, during which the participant lacks social status or rank, remains anonymous, shows obedience and humility
- LINGUISTICS
- the scientific study of language
- GREGORIAN CALENDAR
- international world calendar
- HEGEMONY
- the dominance of one social group over another
- LANGUAGE
- dynamic set of sensory symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them
- LANGUE
- systematic aspect of language
- LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
- an individual's thoughts are influenced by the language(s) they have available to express them.
- MERACTOR MAP
- map we use today, certain country sizes are skewed
- ORIENTALISM
- imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West
- OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
- language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other territory
- PAROLE
- individual speaking acts
- PROXEMICS
- set measurable distances between people as they interact