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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Australopithecus
platyrrhini
Civilization
Elsie Parsons
2. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Rite of passage
Religion
Emic perspective
Animism
3. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Diffusion
Taboo
Revitalization
Social Class Manifestation
4. (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
Homonids
Mesolithic Period
husbandry
Legitimacy
5. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Phonology
prosimians
Matrilineal Descent
Hebrews
6. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Symbol
Cro-Magnon
Policy Research
Relative time
7. 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)
Specialities
Divorce
Ethnography
Rite of passage
8. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Neolithic Period
Genetic drift
Stimulus Diffusion
Substantive Economics
9. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
culture
Catal Huyak
Genotype
James George Frazer
10. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Migration of Erectus
Taboo
Gene pool
Mendel's first principle of genetics
11. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Horticulture
Ideal culture
Shaman
Theory of organic evolution
12. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Unit of Kinship
Sapir-Whorf
Cultural Ecology
Lineage
13. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
American farming
Production
Ideal culture
Cro-Magnon
14. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
platyrrhini
Chiefdom
Cultivation
Geerts
15. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Absolute time
Savagery
3 types of excavation
Genetic drift
16. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Individual Peculiarities
Diffusion
Mary Douglas Leakey
pastoralism
17. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Tribe
Homo Habilis
Semantics
Yanomamo Feasting
18. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
exogamy
phenotype
Status
Birth of Anthropology
19. 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
carbon-14 dating
Mayan indians
Modernization
Unit of Kinship
20. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
EB Tylor
Physical Anthropology
Syntax
Neanderthals
21. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Functionalism
Shaman
Peking Man
22. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Java Man
Mary Douglas Leakey
Mesopotamia
Cro-Magnon
23. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Taboo
Birth of Anthropology
Cultural relativism
carbon-14 dating
24. Things all people do the same way (language)
Neolithic Period
Functionalism
Universalities
Family of procreation
25. Family that raised you
Evaluation research
State
Family of orientation
Sumerians
26. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Savagery
polyandry
Conspicuous Consumption
Cultural Ecology
27. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Matrilineal Descent
Hunter/Gatherers
Agriculture
Gens
28. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Chiefdom
Egyptian diffusion
Legitimacy
29. 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
Cargo Cult
Potlatch
Social impact assessment
Hammurabi
30. 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.
homonoids
Noosphere
Animal domestication
Ralph Lynton
31. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Mesopotamia
Homonids
Animism
Physical Anthropology
32. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Ritual
Evaluation research
Potlatch
Anthropoids
33. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Kindred
Cultural Anthropology
sharp edges
Africa
34. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Sanction
Cargo Cult
Kluckhohn
Nuclear Family
35. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Substantive Economics
Religion
Cargo Cult
Bands & Tribes
36. 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
Redistribution
Ideal culture
Austrailia indians
classical archaeology
37. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Genotypic Variations
Mauss
old world monkeys
Myth
38. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Benedict
Quantitative Research
Condensed Symbol
Taboo
39. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Nistri periscope
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Ideal culture
Fieldwork
40. <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
Specialities
Upper Paleo period
Assyrians
polished stone
41. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Qualitative Research
Poy Tang Lon
Rite of passage
Elsie Parsons
42. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
DNA
Bands & Tribes
Rite of passage
Neolithic Technology
43. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Quinceanera
Kroeber
Genpuku
44. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Cargo Cult
Unit of Kinship
platyrrhini
Writing
45. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Cognatic Descent
Substantive Economics
Egyptology
Negative Reciprocity
46. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Religion
Sondages
Homonids
Unilineal Descent
47. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Revitalization
carbon-14 dating
Applied Anthropology
Nuclear Family
48. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
phenotype
Warlike people
Catal Huyak
Phonetics
49. 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)
Affinal kin
Social Darwinism
Mendelian population
Pragmatics
50. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
Anthropoids
Social impact assessment
Bands & Tribes