Anthro Final

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ascribed roles

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social status a person is assigned at births

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achieved roles

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a role we have chosen

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ethnic group

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a community made up of people who share a common cultural background

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cultural diffusion

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spread of cultural items- ideas, styles, religions, and languages

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Gender

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male or female

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pluralism

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a condition or system in which two or more groups coexist

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ethnocentric

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the belief one group is superior than the other

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culture

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the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively

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society

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people living together in a community

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primitive

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an early stage in evolution

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emic

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an approach to study a particular language or culture in terms of internal elements

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etic

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an approach to study a particular language or culture that is general

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ethnography

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scientific description of customs of individual people and cultures

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ethnology

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study of characteristics of various people's relationships

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signal

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gesture, action, and sound

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symbol

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thing that represents or stands for something

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morpheme

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a meaning unit of language that cannot be further divided

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phonoeme

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perceptually distinct units of sound in a specific language

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dialect

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particular form of language that is specific to a group

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accent

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distinct mode of pronunciation of a language

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Sapir-Worf hypothesis

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language is a reflection of society

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Visual Signal: tangible objects

Human Speech: using vocal cords

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what is the difference between visual signal and human speech?

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syntax

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arrangement of words and phrases to create sentences in a language

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Phonology

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linguistics that deals with systems of sounds in a particular language

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semantics

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logic concerned with meaning

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cognates

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having same linguistic derivation as another

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glottochronolgy

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use of statistical data to date the divergence of languages from common sources

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euphemism

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mild or indirect word that substitutes a word that is too harsh

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historical liguistics

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history and development of languages

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hunting and gathering

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control population by long nursing

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pastoralism

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herded sheep as a major food

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horticulture

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the cultivation of crops in food gardens, carried out with simple hand tools

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agriculture

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intensive crop cultivation, employing plows or irrigation

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swidden agriculture

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cultivation is tropical forest

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production

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produce a good that is native or others don't have

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distribution

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distribute to other parts either make an income

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consumption

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all goods that are used

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what are the two types of magic?

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imitative: imitation

contagious: based on people in contact with it

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what is witchcraft? and what are the functions of it?

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practice of magic

witches may cause sickness, death, or other harm

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what are shamans? what is the function of them?

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a person regarded as having access to and influence in.

respected and feared, very powerful

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religion

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belief in a higher power

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magic

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course of events by using mysterious

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divination

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the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means