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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Things all people do the same way (language)
Universalities
Africa
Paleolithic period
Natural selection
2. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Neanderthals
Schliemann
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Conspicuous Consumption
3. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Levy-Bruhl
Formal Economics
Syntax
Alternatives
4. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Dating methods
Cross-cousins
Agriculture
Noosphere
5. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
old world monkeys
Structuralism
perforated edges
Specialities
6. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Anthropology
Applied Anthropology
War
Potlatch
7. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Nitrogenous Bases
Survival
Universalities
8. 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
Anthropometry
Redistribution
Ethnography
Chiefdom
9. 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.
gene flow
Ethnology
homonoids
Syntax
10. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Evaluation research
Neolithic Period
North American Indians
Gens
11. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Kluckhohn
Upper Paleo period
Levirate
Cro-Magnon
12. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Poy Tang Lon
Specialities
Gene
Mesopotamia
13. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Biosphere
mana
Genotype
Gene pool
14. 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)
Real Culture
Aztec indians
Phratry
Neanderthals
15. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Religion
Poy Tang Lon
Chiefdom
Gene
16. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Mary Douglas Leakey
Quantitative Research
Substantive Economics
Paleolithic period
17. Traces back to ONE person
exogamy
Lineage
sharp edges
Electromagnetic prospecting
18. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Gens
Potlatch
Kroeber
sharp edges
19. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Clan
Class
Directed Cultural Change
Relative time
20. Thinker: social stratification
Weber
Gene migration
Anthropometry
Cross-cousins
21. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Dokimasi
Greeks
Status
KhoiKhoi
22. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Band
Ethnography
Franz Boas
classical archaeology
23. 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..
Clan
Dead Sea scrolls
culture
Pacific indians
24. <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
Taboo
Rite of passage
Upper Paleo period
Quinceanera
25. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Geophysical prospecting
Mayan indians
Superposition
Caste
26. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Noosphere
babylonians
Linguistics
Nuclear Family
27. Holistic study of humanity.
Noosphere
Anthropology
State
Emile Durkheim
28. 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.
Shaman
Totem
Mutagen
Structuralism
29. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Phonetics
New World monkeys
polyandry
Geosphere
30. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
polyandry
polished stone
Dating methods
Genotype
31. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Band
Myth
Affinal kin
Ritual
32. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Modernization
Cultivation
Moieties
Mauss
33. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Neanderthals
Mutation
Paleolithic period
Margaret Mead
34. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Cultural Ecology
Pragmatics
Family of procreation
Egyptian diffusion
35. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Status
chimpanzee
Yanomamo
Dokimasi
36. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Ethnology
Emile Durkheim
Gene pool
polyandry
37. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Catal Huyak
Universalities
Austrailia indians
38. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Kroeber
Functionalism
Egypt
old world monkeys
39. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Neolithic Period
Individual Peculiarities
Allele frequency
Redistribution
40. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Birth of Anthropology
McLennan
Modernization
primates
41. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Franz Boas
Conspicuous Consumption
Reciprocity
Kindred
42. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
43. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Balanced Reciprocity
Industrialization
3 types of excavation
Fieldwork
44. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Mayan indians
Ethnocentrism
Mythology
Cargo Cult
45. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Monarchy
Levi-Strauss
Genotype
Fieldwork
46. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Relative time
Qualitative Research
3 types of excavation
Pragmatics
47. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Homo Erectus
Weber
homonoids
prehistoric archaeology
48. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Substantive Economics
Feudal System
Mendelian population
Neolithic Technology
49. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Ethnography
Weber
Leakey family
Myth
50. 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.
Weber
Crossing over
Savagery
Armchair Anthropologists