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| the study of all humanity from a broad perspective. |
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1.Primatology
2. Archeology
3. Physical Anthro
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1. The study of primates, including monkeys and apes; subfield of Biological Anth
2. The study of past cultures through excavation of material remains.
3. studies the biological makeup of humans and other primates.
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| The intermixing and migrations of peoples with diverse homelands, the multinational reach of communications media. |
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A single part of a culture cant be understood util all other parts of that culture are explored |
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Cultural Anthropology
(Ethnology)
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| the study of the way of life of historically recent human populations. |
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| Believing that one culture is superior in the ways of life and beliefs to another culture. Being ethnocentric is believing your ways are right and not anyone elses. |
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| no culture, taken as a whole, is inherently superior or inferior to any other. |
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| consists of shared, socially learned knowledge and patterns of behavior. |
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Enculturation
(socialization) |
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| The transmission (by means of social learning) of cultural knowledge to the next generation. |
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| Includes a peoples beliefs attitudes, rules, assumptions about the world. |
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shared ideals (or rules) about how people ought to act in certain situations, or about how particular people should act toward particular other people.
Example: A person in America wouldn't wear a veil around town. |
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consists of a people's beliefs about the way of life that is desirable for themselves and their society.
Morals is an example of values. |
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Symbols
*Explain Example* |
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something (like an object or an action) that represents connotes, or calls to mind something else.
Example: Winking an eye means just kidding is a symbol. (non-verbal behavior) |
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| Classification of Reality |
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| ways in which the members of a culture divide up the natural and social world into categories, usually linguistically encoded. aka cultural constructions of reality. |
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| the notion that the beliefs and behaviors of individuals are largely programmed by their culture. |
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| the idea that biologically (genetically) inherited differences between populations are important influences on cultural differences between them. |
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| a group who share a common language and culture |
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| a statistical and lexical study of two languages deriving from a common source to determine the time of their divergence |
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| the study of the sound system of language |
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| The smallest unit of sound that speakers unconsciously recognize as distinctive from other sounds; when one phoneme is substituted for another in a morpheme, the meaning of the morpheme alters. |
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| A combination of phonemes that communicates a standardized meaning. |
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| The idea that a language profoundly shapes the percerptions and worldview of its speakers. |
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Linguist that linked language with Neuro-Science.
Its how we discovered that language is transmitted through reactions of nerves in the brain. |
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1. sounds and their patterning
2. sound combinations and their meaning |
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Total words in a language
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| Studies the role of body motions in communication |
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| The study of space in communications |
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| the non-verbal frame that we put around verbal communication, example: "Just put it There" |
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