Anthro

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What is language?

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Speech or writing; our primary means for communication.

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What chimp learned four words?

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Viki

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What is the language primates use?

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Call system Language

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Why are primate call systems less flexible than language?

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-They are automatic

-they only have one call for danger and food

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How else do primates communicate?

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Sign language

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Syntax

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Arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences.

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What is the idea of ethnicity? What is it? What is it not?

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-based on cultural similarities with members of the same ethnic group in difference between that group and others in society

-they share the same beliefs, values, habits, customs, and norms

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What is ascribed status?

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People have little or no choice about occupying them; age, race, gender

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What are the similarities between race and ethnicity?

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When an ethnic group is assumed to have biological basis, it is called Race.

- they are both cultural categories

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What is the American anthropological association's statement on race?

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Race is socially constructed

-inequalities among racial groups are no consequences of their biological inheritance, but products of social, economic, educational, and political circumstances

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What is the different racial status in Brazil, US, and Japan?

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Do you has has an "other" category for race but they have a strong history of racial discrimination

- Japanese people view race as "pure" or "same blood" versus "not us".

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What do Japanese people say about mixed ancestry?

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Burakumin are not considered "us"

-segregated in neighborhoods

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Is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

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Prejudice is looking down upon a group because of its assumed behavior, values, capabilities, or attitudes

-discrimination is the policies and practices that harm a group. It is the treatment of others based on that

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What is the Bosnia-Herzegovina war?

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1990s, conflict

-ethnocide- kill Muslims and Croatians -mass rape- forced them out

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Genocide versus ethnocide?

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Genocide is the deliberate elimination of a group through mass murder

- ethnoside is the destruction of cultures of certain ethnic groups

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Gender roles

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Tasks and activities a culture assigns by gender

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Lexicon

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Vocabulary; all the morphemes in a language and their meanings

- a language dictionary.

-Influenced perception

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gender stereotypes

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Oversimplified, strongly held views about the characteristics of males and females

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What is dominant public dichotomy

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Strong differentiation between home and the outside world

- The outside world can include politics, trade, warfare, work

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How does dominant public dichotomy relay to gender roles?

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Minnow more likely to be active in the public domain than women are

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What is India's situation about domestic violence

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Husbands, acid in their brides face

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Matrilineal

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Dissent trace their women only

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Matriarchy

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Political system ruled by women or play a more prominent role in social and political organizations

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Matrilocality

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Residence after marriage with the wife's family

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Patrilineal

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Descent traced through men

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Patriarchy

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Political system ruled by man

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Patrilocality

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Residence after marriage with the husbands family

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Chomsky

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MIT professor

- had idea about language

-universal structure of grammar in our minds

-The human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language

- all languages have a common structural basis

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Patrilineal-patrilocal complex

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Male supremacy based on patrilineality, patrilocality, and warfare

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Matrilineal-matrilocal complex

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Systems tend to occur in society is where population pressure on strategic resources are minimal and warfare is infrequent

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What kind of society would you expect social promiscuity to be punished

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Patrilineal-patrilocal

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Etoro?

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Fellatio on men by young boys to "become a man"

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Intersex people

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A discrepancy between external and internal genitals

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Yanomami

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When they have scarce resources, they often wage warfare against other villages. They are patrilineal patrilocal cultivators.

- they oppress women, public roll in warfare and trade

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Exogamy

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Marry outside the family

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Endogamy

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Marry inside the family

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Polygamy

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Multiple partners

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Polygyny

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Marries multiple women

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Sapir and Whorf

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Different languages produce different ways of thinking.

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Polyandry

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Married many brothers

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What is sociolinguistics

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-Concerned with linguistic performance (what people actually say)

- the study of language in social context

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What is it called when speech changes in different social situations?

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Style shifts

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What is the switching of dialects?

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Diglossa

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Bourdieu

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- Judges by the way people speak

-believes that linguistic practices are symbolic capital that people can convert into economic and social value

-The type of dialect you use can show your power/education

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Nation state

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-An autonomous political entity, a country

-Society sharing the language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship

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Statw

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Stratified society with formal, central government