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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Homo Habilis
Cognatic Descent
Moieties
gene flow
2. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
Balanced Reciprocity
Linguistics
babylonians
3. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Religion
WG Rivers
Cultural Resource Assessment
Industrialization
4. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Malinowski
Tributary Production
Armchair Anthropologists
Adaptation
5. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
platyrrhini
babylonians
Warlike people
Cargo Cult
6. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Archaeology
Theory of organic evolution
Cross-cousins
Java Man
7. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Warlike people
culture
Magnetic prospecting
Archaeology
8. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Levirate
Animal domestication
Individual Peculiarities
Theory of organic evolution
9. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Nuclear Family
Matrilineal Descent
Sapir-Whorf
Mendel's first principle of genetics
10. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Hittites
Industrialization
Genetic drift
11. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Allele
Referencial Symbol
Directed Cultural Change
Assyrians
12. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Barbarism
prosimians
Benedict
Egyptian diffusion
13. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Natural selection
Status
Writing
Quantitative Research
14. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
3 types of excavation
Polygamy
Directed Cultural Change
Yanomamo Feasting
15. 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.
Armchair Anthropologists
Stratigraphy
Hittites
homonoids
16. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Upper Paleo period
Hebrews
Yanomamo Feasting
Legitimacy
17. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
prosimians
Conspicuous Consumption
3 types of excavation
Kroeber
18. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Condensed Symbol
North American Indians
Linguistics
classical archaeology
19. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Redistribution
Shaman
culture
Mythology
20. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Physical Anthropology
Revitalization
phenotype
Savagery
21. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Schliemann
Class
Yanomamo
Superposition
22. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Austrailia indians
Neanderthals
Status
Negative Reciprocity
23. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Kindred
Monogamy
Ideal culture
Radcliffe-Brown
24. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Superposition
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Monogamy
25. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
sharp edges
Technology development research
Production
WG Rivers
26. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
James George Frazer
North American Indians
Hebrews
Emic perspective
27. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Unit of Kinship
Totem
Stratigraphy
Margaret Mead
28. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Monogamy
Central American indians
Kluckhohn
prehistoric archaeology
29. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Monogamy
Archaeology
platyrrhini
Diffusion
30. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
Cognatic Descent
homonoids
War
Anthropometry
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32. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Catal Huyak
Allele
War
Conspicuous Consumption
33. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Yanomamo
Olduvai Gorge
Cultural Evolution
34. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Levi-Strauss
Phonetics
KhoiKhoi
Phratry
35. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Barbarism
Kluckhohn
Morphology
Dating methods
36. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Superposition
Legitimacy
Religion
Market Exchange
37. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Cultural Anthropology
Emic perspective
European farming
Specialities
38. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Malinowski
Allele
Symbol
Mutagen
39. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Gene migration
Petrie
Structural-functional
Yanomamo
40. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Phonetics
Tribe
Paleolithic period
Ethnocentrism
41. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
Symbol
Assyrians
Levi-Strauss
Neanderthals
42. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Franz Boas
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Band
Margaret Mead
43. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Relative time
Ideal culture
Condensed Symbol
Central American indians
44. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Nitrogenous Bases
Cargo Cult
Geosphere
Tributary Production
45. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
radiometric dating
Condensed Symbol
old world monkeys
Tribe
46. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Chiefdom
Cultivation
KhoiKhoi
47. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Geosphere
Writing
Technology development research
Myth
48. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Redistribution
Peking Man
Fieldwork
Quantitative Research
49. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Genotypic Variations
Revitalization
Hunter/Gatherers
Neolithic Technology
50. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Syntax
McLennan
Noosphere
Mauss