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Vocabulary
Words Anthropologists Use at the Grocery Store, Usually Somewhere between the Produce and Frozen Foods Section
A priori: refer primarily to how or on what basis a proposition might be known. A proposition is knowable a priori if it is knowable independently of experience.
Atavism: 1. The reappearance in an organism of characteristics of some remote ancestor after several generations of absence. 2. One that exhibits atavism; a throwback. 3.
Au fond: essentially or basically
Autochthony/ autochthonous:Native or aboriginal
Bundle Societies: American Indian cultures using bundles, or packages of paraphernalia with supernatural or medicinal properties.
Contravention: from contravene, 1 : to go or act contrary to: violate 2 : to oppose in argument : contradict, from www.m-w.com.
Cynosuric dominance: I believe this means northern dominance (cynosura) most northern point. Please verify before usage.
Diacritical: serving as a diacritic : a mark near or through an orthographic or phonetic character or combination of characters indicating a phonetic value different from that given the unmarked or otherwise marked element. From www.m-w.com.
Dialectic: any systematic reasoning, exposition, or argument that juxtaposes opposed or contradictory ideas and usually seeks to resolve their conflict
Diversitarian: the advocacy of decentralized, diverse strategies, solutions, services, cultures, etc.
Elide: to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over. (dictionary.com)
Epistemologically determined: Adverbial clause describing the determination of something based on the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity.
Gerotocracy: government by elders
Heterodoxy: Noun, contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion
Hermeneutic turn: Interpretive; explanatory change.
Heuristic: "pertaining to how something is discovered"
Ionian materialists: a material element like fire can change forms and become something else while being the same thing, Greek philosophy.
Incommensurable disciplinary ‘world views’: global understanding of anthropology that cannot be measured or lacks something with which to compare.
Interlocutor: 1. Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially. 2. The performer in a minstrel show who is placed midway between the end men and engages in banter with them. (from dictionary.com)
Lamarckian: the idea of passing on to offspring characteristics that were acquired during an organism's lifetime.
Miscegenation: Term used by Charles Benedict Davenport (1866-1944), an American eugenicist. 1.marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races, esp., in the U.S., between a black and a white person. 2.interbreeding between members of different races. 3.the mixing or a mixture of races by interbreeding. (definition only from Dictionary.com)
Moities: halves of societies defined by rules of kinship.
Ontology: In simple terms, ontology is the philosophical study of existence. Other popular ancient philosophies analyze knowledge and morality.
Perdured: To last permanently; endure.
Phonemes: Individual sounds that have allophonic differences, such as, "pot" and "lot".
Phonemics: Places sounds in an organized system (taxonomy) and seeks to determine their meaning. It explains how sounds are used to differentiate between the meaning of words. For example between "pot" and "lot."
Phonetics: Describes sounds, but lacks meaning or a structure to organize the sounds.
Prelapsarian: Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve.
Prolix: long and wordy
Putative unity: Generally regarded as such, thought to be
Subsumed: To classify, include, or incorporate in a more comprehensive category or under a general principle.
Syncretism: 1.the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion. (from dictionary.com)
Unilinear evolution: cultural evolution in an obligatory series of stages.
A priori: refer primarily to how or on what basis a proposition might be known. A proposition is knowable a priori if it is knowable independently of experience.
Atavism: 1. The reappearance in an organism of characteristics of some remote ancestor after several generations of absence. 2. One that exhibits atavism; a throwback. 3.
Au fond: essentially or basically
Autochthony/ autochthonous:Native or aboriginal
Bundle Societies: American Indian cultures using bundles, or packages of paraphernalia with supernatural or medicinal properties.
Contravention: from contravene, 1 : to go or act contrary to: violate 2 : to oppose in argument : contradict, from www.m-w.com.
Cynosuric dominance: I believe this means northern dominance (cynosura) most northern point. Please verify before usage.
Diacritical: serving as a diacritic : a mark near or through an orthographic or phonetic character or combination of characters indicating a phonetic value different from that given the unmarked or otherwise marked element. From www.m-w.com.
Dialectic: any systematic reasoning, exposition, or argument that juxtaposes opposed or contradictory ideas and usually seeks to resolve their conflict
Diversitarian: the advocacy of decentralized, diverse strategies, solutions, services, cultures, etc.
Elide: to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over. (dictionary.com)
Epistemologically determined: Adverbial clause describing the determination of something based on the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity.
Gerotocracy: government by elders
Heterodoxy: Noun, contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion
Hermeneutic turn: Interpretive; explanatory change.
Heuristic: "pertaining to how something is discovered"
Ionian materialists: a material element like fire can change forms and become something else while being the same thing, Greek philosophy.
Incommensurable disciplinary ‘world views’: global understanding of anthropology that cannot be measured or lacks something with which to compare.
Interlocutor: 1. Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially. 2. The performer in a minstrel show who is placed midway between the end men and engages in banter with them. (from dictionary.com)
Lamarckian: the idea of passing on to offspring characteristics that were acquired during an organism's lifetime.
Miscegenation: Term used by Charles Benedict Davenport (1866-1944), an American eugenicist. 1.marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races, esp., in the U.S., between a black and a white person. 2.interbreeding between members of different races. 3.the mixing or a mixture of races by interbreeding. (definition only from Dictionary.com)
Moities: halves of societies defined by rules of kinship.
Ontology: In simple terms, ontology is the philosophical study of existence. Other popular ancient philosophies analyze knowledge and morality.
Perdured: To last permanently; endure.
Phonemes: Individual sounds that have allophonic differences, such as, "pot" and "lot".
Phonemics: Places sounds in an organized system (taxonomy) and seeks to determine their meaning. It explains how sounds are used to differentiate between the meaning of words. For example between "pot" and "lot."
Phonetics: Describes sounds, but lacks meaning or a structure to organize the sounds.
Prelapsarian: Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve.
Prolix: long and wordy
Putative unity: Generally regarded as such, thought to be
Subsumed: To classify, include, or incorporate in a more comprehensive category or under a general principle.
Syncretism: 1.the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion. (from dictionary.com)
Unilinear evolution: cultural evolution in an obligatory series of stages.
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