ANTH 1003 : Exam 1 Study Guide And Vocab
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20th century, that focuses on finding general laws that identify different elements of society, show how they relate to each other, and demonstrate their role in maintaining social order: clifford geertz. Name, define and give examples of the four fields of anthropology. Cultural anthropology: human nature is not instinctive, but biocultural, not nature vs. nurture but nature and nurture, holistic. Concept of culture: core anthropological concept, beliefs, practices, values, culture/cultures, society focuses more on institutions, ethnocentrism (bad) basing all cultural experience off of one culture, cultural relativism (good) understanding one culture within its own terms. Integrated each part connects to every other part. Linguistic anthropology: communication in context, documentation of languages, language change, language use in speech communities. Components of language and their units: phonetics (sound, phones, phonology (sound system, phonemes, morphology (word structure, morphemes, lexicon (total stock of words in a language, words, syntax (grammar, clauses, sentences, semantics (meanings, discourse (everything)
