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Language & Linguitics
Subsistance
Intro to Anthropology
Human Origins
Supplemental Reading
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Language
What is a system of communication using sounds or gestures that are put together in meaningful ways according to a set of rules is?
100
The number of people that a given piece of land can support at a given level of technology
What is carrying capacity
100
The study of people at all times and in all places
What is anthropology
100
The study of how we gain knowledge
What is epistemology
100
Livestock Harris describes in his writing
What is cattle
200
How people should talk
What is prescriptive linguistics
200
Where animals possessions count as wealth
What is pastoralist societ
200
This methodological problem can occur if people do not trust you and therefore will not talk to you
What is establishing rapport
200
The study of judging people due to their psychological make-up
What is phrenology
200
The idea that agriculture was the downfall of society
Who is Jared Diamond
300
The study of sounds used in a specific langauge
What is phonetics
300
A type of seasonality agricultural strategy
What is transhumance
300
Shared, learned behaviour
What is culture
300
Taught the idea of evolution in a Tennessee school and was taken to court
Who is John Scopes
300
Which Minangkabau family member leaves the big house at marriage
Who are the sons
400
The relationship between language & culture
What do sociolinguistics study
400
Respect thats given to you by your peers
What is prestige distinction
400
Learning one’s native culture; done as a child
What is enculturation
400
The idea that the importance of the race of people flowed from “White Folks” as the most important to “African Folks” as least important
What is What is The Great Chain of Being
400
According to Miner, The body is ugly and its natural tendency is to carry disease
What is fundamental belief about the body
500
The idea of different languages produce different patterns of thought
What is Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
500
Spread of disease to cities, dependence on one crop, diseases of affluence, specialized labor, and organized warfare
What are problems with agriculture
500
Fact, Hypothesis, Experimentation & Theory
What is the Scientific Method
500
The scientist who used Italian immigrants to disprove the idea of phrenology
What is Franz Boas
500
Visitors, outsiders, newcomers, members, fisherman
What is Acheson's, Lobster gangs