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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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Positionality

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A persons uniquely situated social position. Gender, nationality,political views, past experiences, etc

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Subjective meaning

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Meaning that seems true to a particular person

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Inter subjective meaning

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Meaning rooted in the symbolic system of a culture and shared by participants of that culture

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4
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Positivism

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View that there is a single reality “out there” that can be detected through the senses

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5
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Reflexive commitment

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Anthropologists must reveal to everyone involved how data is gathered

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Reflexivity

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Critically thinking about the way one thinks, reflecting on your own experiences

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7
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Mark of good field work

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To be surprised

Willing to change earlier views

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8
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Validity

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Accuracy of instruments data and findings

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Reliability

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Whether you can repeat the same finding

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10
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Ethnographic techniques (7)

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  • Prticipant observation
  • Sampling procedure
  • Semi structured interview
  • Household survey/ census
  • Life histories & narrative interviews
  • Key informant interviews
  • Eliciting symbolic representation
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Ethnography

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An anthropologist recorded description of a particular group of people’s way of life
(Defines sociocultural anthropology)

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12
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Racialism

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Belief in race

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13
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Archaeology

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Study of human past through material culture

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14
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Linguistic anthropology

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Concerned with study of human language

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Cultural anthropology

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Focus on sets of learned behaviour & ideas that humans acquire as members of society

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16
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Binary opposition

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Ex pair of dualist forces (mind and body)

17
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Traditional culture

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Aspects of the past people want to protect maintain or retrieve

18
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Cultural pattern

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A behaviour or idea that members of a society repeatedly pass on across generations that is recognized by all members of that society

19
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Habitus

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Everyday, routine, habitual behaviour

20
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Ethnocentrism

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The opinion that ones own way of life is natural or correct

21
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Cultural relativism

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Approaching other cultures with sympathy not thinking your way of life is better

22
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Pragmatics

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Study of language in context of its use

23
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Heteroglossia

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The coexistence off multiple varieties of a specific language

24
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Ethnopragmatics

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Study of language use In a specific culture

25
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Syntax

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Study of language structure

26
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Phonology

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Study of the sounds of language

27
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Morphology

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Study of smallest units of meaning in a language

28
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Pidgeon language

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Fairly simple language with no native speakers developed in a single generation between members of communities that posses distinct native language

29
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Creole

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A complex language with native speakers developed over one or more past generations of 2 or more distinct languages

30
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Language revitalization

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Attempts by linguists & activist to preserve/revive languages with few native speakers

31
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The basian theory

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4 field anthropology 
1- biological 
2-archaeological 
3-linguistics 
4-cultural
32
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Primatology

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Study of non human primates

33
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Paleo anthropology

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Study of fossilized remains of humans earliest ancestors

34
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5 elements of human capacity

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Transmission: ability to copy behaviour by observation/ instruction
Memory: ability to remember new behaviours
Reiteration: ability to reproduce/imitate behaviour and info that’s been learned
Innovation: ability to invent/modify behaviour
Selection: ability to select which innovations to keep/discard

35
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Sociolinguistics

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The study of language in relation to social factors

Anthropology 1220 (3 decks)

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