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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Cultural relativism
Market Exchange
Cargo Cult
Homo Habilis
2. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Pragmatics
Diffusion
Totem
Symbol
3. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Policy Research
Syntax
War
4. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Egyptian diffusion
Caste
Leakey family
Radcliffe-Brown
5. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Birth of Anthropology
Hunter/Gatherers
Asian farming
Genotypic Variations
6. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Caste
Family of procreation
Africa
Mutagen
7. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Adaptation
Mary Douglas Leakey
Family of orientation
Hebrews
8. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Evaluation research
Poy Tang Lon
European farming
phenotype
9. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Greeks
Tribe
Nuclear Family
Gens
10. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Savagery
Substantive Economics
Generalized Reciprocity
Genpuku
11. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
platyrrhini
Petrie
Crossing over
Quinceanera
12. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Ritual
Cultural Resource Assessment
Asian farming
Social Class Manifestation
13. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Chromosome
Schliemann
Syntax
prosimians
14. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Bands & Tribes
Totem
Stimulus Diffusion
Leakey family
15. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Natural selection
Totem
Dead Sea scrolls
16. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Revitalization
Writing
culture
Upper Paleo period
17. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Specialities
Polygamy
Yanomamo Feasting
Cognatic Descent
18. 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.
Physical Anthropology
Shaman
Structuralism
Middle Paleo Period
19. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Chiefdom
Sanction
Matrilineal Descent
Geophysical prospecting
20. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Evaluation research
DNA
EB Tylor
Neolithic Period
21. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Homonids
3 types of excavation
Cognatic Descent
Hammurabi
22. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Pacific indians
Archaeology
Production
Evaluation research
23. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Cultural Anthropology
carbon-14 dating
Gens
Ziggurat
24. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
DNA
radiometric dating
Fieldwork
Affinal kin
25. Determining the success of a project
Modernization
Cargo Cult
Evaluation research
Ethnology
26. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Middle Paleo Period
Cargo Cult
Quinceanera
Hunter/Gatherers
27. <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
Asian farming
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Upper Paleo period
Benedict
28. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Natural selection
Class
War
Emile Durkheim
29. Relatives through marriage
Specialities
Affinal kin
Chiefdom
Monarchy
30. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Ritual
Cultural Ecology
phenotype
Mauss
31. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Stratigraphy
Hittites
Gens
Phonetics
32. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Theory of organic evolution
Gene
Genetic Recombination
Culture
33. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Horticulture
Mesolithic Period
Elsie Parsons
culture
34. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
South American indians
Cultural Resource Assessment
Emile Durkheim
babylonians
35. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
International Development
exogamy
Caste
Mesopotamia
36. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Kindred
Geerts
Animism
Radcliffe-Brown
37. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
Divorce
State
Geophysical prospecting
Catal Huyak
38. Spread of something from one group to another
Diffusion
Agriculture
Family of procreation
Dead Sea scrolls
39. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Anthropometry
Neolithic Technology
Matrilineal Descent
Genpuku
40. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Theory of organic evolution
Dokimasi
Cultural Evolution
polyandry
41. 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
pastoralism
Gene migration
McLennan
42. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
phenotype
Chromosome
Cultural Anthropology
Yanomamo Feasting
43. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Crossing over
Emile Durkheim
Mendel's second principle of genetics
44. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Egyptology
Negative Reciprocity
Moieties
Referencial Symbol
45. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Monarchy
Allele frequency
Ethnography
State
46. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
perforated edges
Schliemann
Mayan indians
Mythology
47. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Gene
Neolithic Technology
Tributary Production
Mayan indians
48. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Egypt
Morphology
Polygamy
Mendelian population
49. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Universalities
Symbol
Class
Policy Research
50. 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.
mana
Polygamy
classical archaeology
homonoids