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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Things all people do the same way (language)
Morphology
Agriculture
Radcliffe-Brown
Universalities
2. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
perforated edges
KhoiKhoi
Civilization
Semantics
3. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Homonids
Emic perspective
Social impact assessment
Reciprocity
4. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Noosphere
Production
Qualitative Research
Yanomamo
5. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Anthropometry
Generalized Reciprocity
Cultural Resource Assessment
Tribe
6. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Dokimasi
Mary Douglas Leakey
Industrialization
7. 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)
Quantitative Research
Peking Man
Mesolithic Period
Phratry
8. Invented smelting of iron
Shaman
Writing
exogamy
Hittites
9. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Divorce
Electromagnetic prospecting
Affinal kin
platyrrhini
10. Shorthand - Morse Code
Myth
State
Poy Tang Lon
Condensed Symbol
11. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Poy Tang Lon
Kluckhohn
Middle Paleo Period
Phases of rituals
12. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Levirate
chimpanzee
Horticulture
EB Tylor
13. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Ethnocentrism
Assyrians
Neolithic Period
Market Exchange
14. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Central American indians
mana
Phonetics
Sanction
15. Traces back to ONE person
Status
perforated edges
Lineage
Warlike people
16. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Mendelian population
Animism
Gene migration
polyandry
17. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Phratry
phenotype
Nitrogenous Bases
Balanced Reciprocity
18. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Australopithecus
Allele
Physical Anthropology
babylonians
19. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Linguistics
Mythology
Asian farming
polished stone
20. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Individual Peculiarities
Allele
Aztec indians
Genetic drift
21. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Modernization
Industrialization
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Shaman
22. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Hammurabi
polished stone
Negative Reciprocity
Petrie
23. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Religion
Survival
Sumerians
Band
24. 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
McLennan
Barbarism
Potlatch
Elsie Parsons
25. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Homo Erectus
Olduvai Gorge
Yanomamo
sharp edges
26. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Affinal kin
Animal domestication
Noosphere
Archaeology
27. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
prosimians
Birth of Anthropology
Agriculture
Africa
28. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Tribe
Franz Boas
Diffusion
Yanomamo Feasting
29. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Ralph Lynton
American farming
Taboo
Genotype
30. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Dokimasi
Cognatic Descent
Benedict
Mesolithic Period
31. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Monogamy
Nistri periscope
Schliemann
sharp edges
32. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Cultural Evolution
James George Frazer
Social Darwinism
Individual Peculiarities
33. 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
Anthropoids
Peking Man
Cultural Evolution
Diffusion
34. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
Neanderthals
Directed Cultural Change
Cargo Cult
35. Thinkers: linguistics
Referencial Symbol
Real Culture
Catal Huyak
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
36. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Warlike people
Cultural relativism
International Development
37. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Greeks
Gens
Cultural relativism
Taboo
38. 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
Specialities
Natural selection
Redistribution
Clan
39. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Elsie Parsons
Aztec indians
Ritual
Family of orientation
40. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Sondages
Weber
Dokimasi
Family of orientation
41. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Anthropometry
primates
Middle Paleo Period
Quantitative Research
42. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Assyrians
3 types of excavation
Nuclear Family
classical archaeology
43. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Warlike people
Cargo Cult
Kindred
Directed Cultural Change
44. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Structuralism
Birth of Anthropology
gene flow
Tributary Production
45. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Dead Sea scrolls
Excavation
Ralph Lynton
Asian farming
46. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Survival
Cultural Ecology
Sanction
Egyptology
47. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Structural-functional
Band
Asian farming
Gene migration
48. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Semantics
culture
Animism
pastoralism
49. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Franz Boas
Allele
Paleolithic period
Phratry
50. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
Schliemann
Franz Boas
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