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Cultural Anthropology
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
02/20/2010

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3 types of cognition
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perception, intellect, emotion
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Articulated style
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breaking up the world into associated bits that fit together individually
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Communication
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the transfer of information from one person to another, which can take place without the use of words, spoken or otherwiste, to try to get the point across
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Determinism
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looking at one thing and it causes directly the next thing to happen
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Fieldwork
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investigative research outside of laboratory/classroom that seeks to explain human behavior
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Global style
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a view of the world holistically- taking in the whole, entire picture and then adding elements’ field (context) dependent
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Hockett’s Design Features of Language
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Language
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the system of arbitrary vocal symbols human beings use to encode and communicate about experience
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Linguistics
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the scientific study of language
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Renfrew's Distance Decay Model
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SLAPS
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shared, learned, adaptive, patterned, symbolism
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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the assertion that language has the power to shape the way people see the world
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adaptation
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affluence
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alliance
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anthropology
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archaeology
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art
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play with form producing some aesthetically successful transformation-representation
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cognition
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the mental process by which human beings gain knowledge
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cognitive style
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a patterning by which an individual characterizes his or her perceptual, intellectual and, I dare say, emotional activities
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components of language
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grammar, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
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comsumption
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consumption: internal, external, cultural
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context
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cultural anthropology
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cultural phenomenon
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SLAPS
shared, learned, adaptive, patterned, symbolism
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cultural processes
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cultural relativism
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culture
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diffusion
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distribution
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documentary evidence (history/prehistory)
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enculturation
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ethnocentrism
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ethnography
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the process of describing and documenting another culture
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event
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evolution ecology
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food collectors and food producers
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framing
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a cognitive boundary that marks certain behaviors as "play" or as "ordinary life"
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grammar
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human agency
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hyoid bone
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the hyoid bone is not articulated to any other bone, it is supported by the muscles of the keck and in turn supports the root of the tounge
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illusion
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interview
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involves informants, Q & A (survey or questionnaire)
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invention
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liminality
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linguistic anthropology
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linguistic/communicative competence
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material culture
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metaphor
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a figure of speech, (or an object, activity, or idea) in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used to suggest a likeness or analogy between them
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migration
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movement ( of people) from one region to another, usually on deliberate decisions to enter how regions and leave old ethics
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morphology
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naive realism
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objective knowledge
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observation
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gathering information through study, usually visual
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oral traditions
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orthodoxy
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orthopraxy
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participant-observation
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when you actually engage with the culture you are studying
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physical/biological anthropology
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pidgin
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play
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a framing or orienting context that is
1) consciously adopted by the players
2) somehow pleasurable
3) systematically related to what is non-play by alluding to the non-play world, and by transforming the objects, roles, actions, and relations of ends and means characteristic of the non-play world
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positivism
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pragmatics
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production
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professional ethics
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reciprocity
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redistribution
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reflexivity
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schema
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a patterned, repetitive experience; packets of experiences that appear to mesh together as wholes
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self
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semantics
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social stratification
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socialization
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how human beings cope with established behavior rules of their respective societies
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socialization
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subsistence
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symbolism
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syntax
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theoretical approaches to culture
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trade/exchange
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transformation-representation
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the process in which experience is transformed as it is represented symbolically in a different medium
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