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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Cultural Resource Assessment
Cultural Ecology
Excavation
Franz Boas
2. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Elsie Parsons
radiometric dating
Mauss
babylonians
3. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Culture
Crossing over
Directed Cultural Change
Family of orientation
4. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Emic perspective
Stratigraphy
radiometric dating
Africa
5. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Genotype
Specialities
Bands & Tribes
Stimulus Diffusion
6. Man marries widow of his dead brother
North American Indians
Syntax
Barbarism
Levirate
7. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Genpuku
Mesolithic Period
Africa
Mauss
8. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
Olduvai Gorge
Phratry
Totem
9. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Egyptian diffusion
Olduvai Gorge
Yanomamo Feasting
Mythology
10. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Gene
Morphology
Leakey family
Birth of Anthropology
11. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
Polygamy
mana
Cultural relativism
Armchair Anthropologists
12. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Symbol
Balanced Reciprocity
Conspicuous Consumption
Mutation
13. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Redistribution
polished stone
Balanced Reciprocity
Allele frequency
14. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Yanomamo
mana
Cultural Evolution
15. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Mesolithic Period
Elsie Parsons
Radcliffe-Brown
Applied Anthropology
16. Thinkers: linguistics
Warlike people
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Kluckhohn
Australopithecus
17. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Homo Erectus
Mutagen
Totem
Linguistics
18. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
pastoralism
Pragmatics
Negative Reciprocity
Olduvai Gorge
19. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Status
Real Culture
Upper Paleo period
culture
20. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Africa
State
Phases of rituals
21. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Culture
Balanced Reciprocity
Mutagen
Phratry
22. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Intervention Anthropology
Writing
Ethnology
Social Class Manifestation
23. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Fieldwork
Neanderthals
Ethnology
Kindred
24. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Cargo Cult
mana
pastoralism
Substantive Economics
25. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Genotypic Variations
Hebrews
Nitrogenous Bases
Matrilineal Descent
26. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
State
Elsie Parsons
Absolute time
Morphology
27. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Etic perspective
Petrie
Alternatives
Linguistics
28. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Benedict
Anthropometry
Referencial Symbol
Unilineal Descent
29. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Cognatic Descent
culture
Relative time
Phonetics
30. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Armchair Anthropologists
Status
Benedict
Ziggurat
31. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Mendelian population
Myth
Pacific indians
classical archaeology
32. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Diffusion
Qualitative Research
Ethnocentrism
platyrrhini
33. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Mendelian population
classical archaeology
Stimulus Diffusion
Potlatch
34. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Social practices
platyrrhini
Austrailia indians
Geosphere
35. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
WG Rivers
Survival
Theory of organic evolution
Tribe
36. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Morphology
Myth
Lower Paleo Period
Formal Economics
37. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Nistri periscope
Conspicuous Consumption
Geophysical prospecting
Diffusion
38. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Schliemann
Animism
Bands & Tribes
Genotypic Variations
39. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cargo Cult
Aztec indians
Chiefdom
Negative Reciprocity
40. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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41. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Ralph Lynton
Asian farming
old world monkeys
Hunter/Gatherers
42. Things all people do the same way (language)
Geophysical prospecting
Cargo Cult
Universalities
carbon-14 dating
43. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Benedict
Migration of Erectus
Greeks
Electromagnetic prospecting
44. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Stratigraphy
Gene pool
Allele
Malinowski
45. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Peking Man
Chiefdom
War
Levi-Strauss
46. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Sapir-Whorf
Nuclear Family
primates
Olduvai Gorge
47. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Allele
Myth
African Economic Organization
48. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Leakey family
Culture
Phases of rituals
Mesopotamia
49. Shorthand - Morse Code
Functionalism
Cultural Evolution
Condensed Symbol
Monarchy
50. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Taboo
Superposition
Noosphere
Mendel's first principle of genetics