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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
12/11/2011

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Term
Nonhuman Communication
Definition
Includes noise,odor,and can emphasize the similarities or the differences in human communication
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Symbolic Communication
Definition
1)The word itself has a tie to what it is referring. 2)The meaning is arbitrary.
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Accent
Definition
Differences in pronunciation
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Kine-sics
Definition
The study of communication by nonverbal or nonverbal means,including posture and mannerisms
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Lexicon
Definition
A Language which a dictionary approximates,consists of words and morphs their meanings
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Morphs
Definition
Linguistics call the smallest unit of a language that has meaning
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Historical Linguistics
Definition
Focuses on how language changes over time.
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Morpheme
Definition
One or more morphs that has the same meaning.
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Morphology
Definition
The study of the sequences of sounds that have meaning.
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Phones
Definition
Sounds
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Phonology
Definition
Predicting how sounds are made in a language
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Syntax
Definition
How words are strung together to form phrases and sentences
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Dialects
Definition
Variations of language
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Cognates
Definition
Words that are similar in sound and meaning.usually referring to plants and animals
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Protolanguage
Definition
The ancestor of many different languages.Usually not written from a record.
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Theoretical Orientation
Definition
A general Idea about how phenomena is to be explained
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Genus
Definition
Classification of a being from Kingdom to class to order
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Eugenics
Definition
Population control
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Functionalism
Definition
What anthropologists look at when looking to examine a things place in society
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General Evolution
Definition
Refers to the development of hierarchies in a society
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Specific Evolution
Definition
Refers to a particular sequence of change and adaptation of a particular society in a given enviornment
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Ethnoscience
Definition
A collection of date to predetermine a set of anthropological categories to understand peoples world from their view
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Cultural Ecology
Definition
The analysis of the relationships between a culture and its environment
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Political Economy
Definition
The external forces that explains how a culture changes and adapts
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Sociobiology
Definition
how natural selection operates behaviorally on a population
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group selection
Definition
cultural ecologist talk mostly about how certain behaviors and social characteristics may be adaptive for a group or society in a given environment.
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individual selection
Definition
how a certain characteristic may be adaptive for a individual in a given environment.
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hermeneutics
Definition
the study of meaning.
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culture history
Definition
creating history of culture and there changes over time.
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litchis
Definition
common stone tools or artifacts from the past.
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ecofacts
Definition
natural objects that human have used or affected.
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artifacts
Definition
anything made or modified by humans.
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Fossils
Definition
may be impressions of an insect or leaf on a muddy surface that is now stone.
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Features
Definition
kinds of artifacts that can't be easy removed from the dig site.
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Name of professor who visited our class
Definition

 

 

Dr Michelle Lockhart

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How dose rhetoric and anthrolpology go together
Definition
  • Linquistic
  • humankind
  • people

 

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Rhetoric  is
Definition

 

 

combinations of language communcation and persasion

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Rhetoric has been around for
Definition
25000 years
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Different time perods of rhetoric
Definition
  • Classical
  • mid evil
  • renaissance
  • enlightenment
  • 20 century
  • present day 
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Some of the key players of Rhetoric
Definition
  • Socrates's
  • Aristotle
  • Socrates's 
  • ceasear
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What are the deep ties (2)
Definition
Laws in our court sytem far as persauding one way on the other (good & evil)
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What are the means of persuading (3)
Definition
  • Pathos
  • ethos
  • Lagos 
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Ethos
Definition
  • wins creditability  

 

Aristotle says this is the most potent

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Pathos

 

Definition

How you appeal to some one emmotion on how you feel

 [entertaining or living in fear]

 

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Logos

Definition
appeal using reason
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How did John Locke descirbe rheoric the bad (side)
Definition

The abuse of word a powerful instrument of error and deceit.

 

 

Use the example of Hitler

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