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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Cro-Magnon
Phonetics
Semantics
Balanced Reciprocity
2. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Cargo Cult
Animal domestication
Caste
Horticulture
3. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Neolithic Period
Egyptian diffusion
Poy Tang Lon
Margaret Mead
4. 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
Modernization
American farming
DNA
5. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Cargo Cult
American farming
Homo Erectus
6. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Animal domestication
Middle Paleo Period
Magnetic prospecting
Market Exchange
7. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Specialities
American farming
Clan
State
8. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
mana
Lower Paleo Period
Reciprocity
Social Darwinism
9. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Syntax
Noosphere
Asian farming
Semantics
10. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Gene migration
Africa
gene flow
Ritual
11. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
Technology development research
Tribe
Middle Paleo Period
12. Thinker: social stratification
Weber
Cultural Ecology
Morphology
Specialities
13. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Matrilineal Descent
Dead Sea scrolls
Real Culture
Homonids
14. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cargo Cult
Moieties
Technology development research
Petrie
15. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
Natural selection
Symbol
Schliemann
Alternatives
16. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Religion
Universalities
Cultural Resource Assessment
Ideal culture
17. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Noosphere
Social impact assessment
Mary Douglas Leakey
18. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Cultural Anthropology
Franz Boas
Phratry
Mendel's first principle of genetics
19. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Allele frequency
Petrie
Australopithecus
Mary Douglas Leakey
20. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
culture
Substantive Economics
Middle Paleo Period
21. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Affinal kin
Gene pool
Savagery
22. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Egypt
Myth
Social impact assessment
homonoids
23. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Egyptology
Elsie Parsons
Mutation
Stimulus Diffusion
24. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Horticulture
Ethnography
Electromagnetic prospecting
Cro-Magnon
25. 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]
Non-warlike people
Reciprocity
Franz Boas
Gens
26. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Mendelian population
Ethnology
Sanction
Cognatic Descent
27. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Bands & Tribes
Catal Huyak
classical archaeology
28. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
sharp edges
Cultural Resource Assessment
Agriculture
Hunter/Gatherers
29. 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
Barbarism
Individual Peculiarities
old world monkeys
Neanderthals
30. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
perforated edges
Dead Sea scrolls
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Stimulus Diffusion
31. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Middle Paleo Period
Feudal System
Yanomamo
Pragmatics
32. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Cross-cousins
Upper Paleo period
Religion
Quinceanera
33. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Sanction
Emile Durkheim
Theory of organic evolution
Syntax
34. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
African Economic Organization
Quinceanera
Clan
35. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Formal Economics
Dead Sea scrolls
Legitimacy
Social Darwinism
36. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Horticulture
Poy Tang Lon
Theory of organic evolution
Levi-Strauss
37. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Leakey family
DNA
Adaptation
Shaman
38. 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.
Cultural Evolution
Paleolithic period
Cultural relativism
culture
39. Shorthand - Morse Code
Noosphere
Savagery
Totem
Condensed Symbol
40. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Greeks
Applied Anthropology
Biosphere
phenotype
41. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Structural-functional
Status
Substantive Economics
Mendel's third principle of genetics
42. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Dating methods
Poy Tang Lon
Franz Boas
husbandry
43. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Dokimasi
Taboo
Balanced Reciprocity
Cultural Anthropology
44. 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
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Ecology
Cognatic Descent
45. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)
Migration of Erectus
Dead Sea scrolls
Social Darwinism
Phratry
46. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Diffusion
Conspicuous Consumption
Archaeology
Aztec indians
47. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Lower Paleo Period
Phases of rituals
Etic perspective
Biosphere
48. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Animism
Genetic Recombination
Mayan indians
Benedict
49. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Fieldwork
Genotype
DNA
Intervention Anthropology
50. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Religion
Bronze Age
Animism
Barbarism