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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Physical Anthropology
Religion
Phases of rituals
pastoralism
2. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Crossing over
Potlatch
Bands & Tribes
Survival
3. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Ideal culture
Nitrogenous Bases
Anthropometry
4. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Cultural Resource Assessment
Schliemann
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Savagery
5. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Semantics
Real Culture
Cultivation
Animism
6. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Leakey family
Genotype
Technology development research
7. 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.
State
Franz Boas
Armchair Anthropologists
Anthropology
8. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Gene migration
Alternatives
Balanced Reciprocity
Ralph Lynton
9. 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
Feudal System
Gene migration
Levirate
Redistribution
10. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Mauss
Levirate
carbon-14 dating
Semantics
11. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Myth
Cargo Cult
Unit of Kinship
Leakey family
12. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Ralph Lynton
Peking Man
Balanced Reciprocity
gene flow
13. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Civilization
Central American indians
Family of procreation
Chiefdom
14. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Emic perspective
Family of procreation
Directed Cultural Change
15. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Assyrians
Reciprocity
Franz Boas
Mendelian population
16. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Peking Man
Intervention Anthropology
Functionalism
Birth of Anthropology
17. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
War
Hunter/Gatherers
Rite of passage
18. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Levi-Strauss
Geophysical prospecting
Real Culture
Anthropometry
19. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
New World monkeys
Sanction
Market Exchange
Mythology
20. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Structuralism
Gene pool
Cross-cousins
Modernization
21. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Condensed Symbol
culture
Biosphere
Asian farming
22. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Gens
Mutation
McLennan
Asian farming
23. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Animism
Morphology
Margaret Mead
Neolithic Technology
24. 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
Neanderthals
Relative time
Weber
Mendel's third principle of genetics
25. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
carbon-14 dating
Dokimasi
Directed Cultural Change
Crossing over
26. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Writing
Status
Theory of organic evolution
27. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Biosphere
Central American indians
Greeks
old world monkeys
28. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Market Exchange
Phonetics
Status
Allele
29. Ways to date artifacts
James George Frazer
Market Exchange
Dating methods
homonoids
30. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Social practices
Cargo Cult
Levy-Bruhl
31. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Unilineal Descent
Phonology
exogamy
Mayan indians
32. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Ideal culture
Yanomamo
Franz Boas
Alternatives
33. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Dating methods
Sondages
Warlike people
Fieldwork
34. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Absolute time
Neolithic Technology
Mythology
Shaman
35. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
primates
Intervention Anthropology
Chiefdom
Quantitative Research
36. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Nistri periscope
Emile Durkheim
Band
Cultural Anthropology
37. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
European farming
Animal domestication
Sondages
Central American indians
38. Spread of something from one group to another
Agriculture
WG Rivers
Alternatives
Diffusion
39. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Emile Durkheim
Upper Paleo period
McLennan
phenotype
40. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Structural-functional
Paleolithic period
Genetic drift
Conspicuous Consumption
41. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Individual Peculiarities
Myth
Structural-functional
Austrailia indians
42. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Monarchy
Egyptian diffusion
Clan
Nitrogenous Bases
43. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Quantitative Research
Franz Boas
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Totem
44. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Poy Tang Lon
Balanced Reciprocity
Relative time
Generalized Reciprocity
45. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
platyrrhini
Allele
chimpanzee
classical archaeology
46. Family that raised you
Poy Tang Lon
Barbarism
Production
Family of orientation
47. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Sumerians
Family of procreation
Greeks
Cargo Cult
48. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Monogamy
primates
Levi-Strauss
International Development
49. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Assyrians
Diffusion
Cultural Anthropology
Writing
50. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Cro-Magnon
Chromosome
KhoiKhoi
Modernization
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