Anthropology Miterm 2

The scond deck of the anthropology review

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The shared, public symbolic systems of a culture are referred to as
Intersubjective
What is a fact
A taken-for-granted item of common knowledge
. Multisited ethnography focuses on
Cultural processes that are not contained by geographical boundaries
A language with no native speakers that develops in a single generation between members of communities that possess distinct native languages is
Pidgin
The relative integration of an individual’s perceptions, motives, cognitions, and behavior within a sociocultural matrix is referred to as
Personality
Linguistic determinism holds that
Grammars of people’s native languages determine how they think about the world
When the characteristics of human beings are attributed to nonhuman entities, this is an example of:
Organic metaphor and personification
The set of rules that aim to describe fully the patterns of linguistic usage observed by members of a particular speech community is called
Grammar
Primitive” human languages
Do not exist
Encompassing pictures of reality created by the members of a particular society are called
World views
A stretch of speech longer than a sentance united by a common theme
Discourse
. “The mental process by which human beings gain knowledge” is a definition of
Cognition
According to William Labov’s work in the 1960s, African American children living in urban areas did not perform well linguistically in the classroom because they
Felt threatened in a classroom setting