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DSST General Anthropology
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1. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Unit of Kinship
Religion
mana
Band
2. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Applied Anthropology
Unilineal Descent
Modernization
Functionalism
3. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Potlatch
Civilization
Genotype
Family of orientation
4. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
sharp edges
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Hebrews
Status
5. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
phenotype
Superposition
mana
Production
6. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Chiefdom
Cultural Ecology
Shaman
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)
Genotypic Variations
Totem
Mesopotamia
Phratry
8. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
European farming
Petrie
Ethnocentrism
Technology development research
9. 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)
Family of procreation
Social Darwinism
Clan
Cultural Resource Assessment
10. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Cultivation
Horticulture
Migration of Erectus
Cro-Magnon
11. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
perforated edges
Geerts
Phonology
Cross-cousins
12. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Ritual
African Economic Organization
chimpanzee
13. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Functionalism
Reciprocity
Fieldwork
Policy Research
14. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
Peking Man
Geosphere
South American indians
15. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Civilization
Qualitative Research
Greeks
Anthropology
16. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Austrailia indians
Middle east farming
Java Man
Africa
17. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Technology development research
Divorce
Anthropology
Social practices
18. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Chromosome
Nistri periscope
African Economic Organization
Ziggurat
19. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Reciprocity
Production
Physical Anthropology
Franz Boas
20. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Qualitative Research
North American Indians
Moieties
21. 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
Neanderthals
Magnetic prospecting
Semantics
22. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Sumerians
Natural selection
Geosphere
Egyptian diffusion
23. 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
Affinal kin
Balanced Reciprocity
Formal Economics
Technology development research
24. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Migration of Erectus
pastoralism
Radcliffe-Brown
Chiefdom
25. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Structural-functional
Central American indians
Kluckhohn
Clan
26. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Dokimasi
Greeks
prosimians
Franz Boas
27. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Religion
primates
mana
Modernization
28. 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
radiometric dating
Diffusion
Class
Middle Paleo Period
29. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Geerts
Homo Habilis
Yanomamo
carbon-14 dating
30. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Theory of organic evolution
Genetic Recombination
New World monkeys
Barbarism
31. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Lower Paleo Period
Mayan indians
Unit of Kinship
Phases of rituals
32. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Natural selection
Mayan indians
State
Agriculture
33. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Affinal kin
Market Exchange
Myth
Greeks
34. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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35. Holistic study of humanity.
Pragmatics
Anthropology
radiometric dating
old world monkeys
36. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Anthropology
Social impact assessment
Cro-Magnon
Dokimasi
37. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Yanomamo
Writing
Emile Durkheim
38. 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
Geosphere
Hebrews
Myth
39. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Nitrogenous Bases
Gens
Intervention Anthropology
Chiefdom
40. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Paleolithic period
Adaptation
Policy Research
Aztec indians
41. Invented smelting of iron
Status
Hittites
Cultural Anthropology
Market Exchange
42. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Conspicuous Consumption
Diffusion
Benedict
Status
43. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Revitalization
Phonology
Band
Monogamy
44. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Rite of passage
husbandry
Functionalism
Mutation
45. Relatives through marriage
Cross-cousins
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Affinal kin
Migration of Erectus
46. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Ethnography
Gens
Genpuku
Agriculture
47. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Mutation
Peking Man
Taboo
Paleolithic period
48. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
radiometric dating
Savagery
Biosphere
Cultivation
49. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Potlatch
Functionalism
American farming
Levirate
50. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Africa
Individual Peculiarities
Cultivation
Geerts
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