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DSST General Anthropology
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1. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Directed Cultural Change
sharp edges
Redistribution
Conspicuous Consumption
2. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Dead Sea scrolls
primates
Neanderthals
Policy Research
3. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
James George Frazer
Java Man
Adaptation
Allele
4. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Animal domestication
Neolithic Period
Biosphere
Superposition
5. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
DNA
North American Indians
Anthropoids
Allele frequency
6. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Quantitative Research
Allele frequency
Cro-Magnon
Hebrews
7. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Hittites
Mythology
Animal domestication
Cargo Cult
8. 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.
Physical Anthropology
Mendel's third principle of genetics
homonoids
Negative Reciprocity
9. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Generalized Reciprocity
Lineage
Cultivation
polyandry
10. 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.
Negative Reciprocity
Mutagen
Rite of passage
Neolithic Technology
11. 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.
Warlike people
homonoids
Myth
Cargo Cult
12. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Stimulus Diffusion
Mendel's second principle of genetics
3 types of excavation
13. Traces back to ONE person
prehistoric archaeology
Structuralism
Animal domestication
Lineage
14. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Crossing over
Allele frequency
Divorce
European farming
15. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Sanction
Middle east farming
Middle Paleo Period
Barbarism
16. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
gene flow
Paleolithic period
Real Culture
Kroeber
17. 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
Clan
Class
Anthropometry
endogamy
18. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Syntax
Referencial Symbol
Geosphere
Emile Durkheim
19. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Cargo Cult
Ziggurat
New World monkeys
Family of orientation
20. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
prosimians
Birth of Anthropology
Dokimasi
Feudal System
21. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Horticulture
Anthropoids
Migration of Erectus
Alternatives
22. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Homonids
Benedict
Austrailia indians
Gene
23. (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
Mesolithic Period
Ethnocentrism
Policy Research
Cultural Anthropology
24. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Pragmatics
Intervention Anthropology
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Conspicuous Consumption
25. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Adaptation
Ethnography
Australopithecus
26. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Writing
Taboo
Social Class Manifestation
Class
27. Family that raised you
Greeks
Sumerians
Family of orientation
Phases of rituals
28. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Nistri periscope
Physical Anthropology
Barbarism
Quinceanera
29. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
DNA
Chiefdom
Intervention Anthropology
30. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Gene migration
Condensed Symbol
Monogamy
Class
31. 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
Social Class Manifestation
Myth
Applied Anthropology
32. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Biosphere
Cultural Ecology
Genotypic Variations
Stimulus Diffusion
33. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Class
Australopithecus
Unit of Kinship
State
34. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Dating methods
Homo Erectus
Mutation
Homonids
35. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Middle Paleo Period
Social Darwinism
Cargo Cult
Quantitative Research
36. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Cultural Ecology
South American indians
Pragmatics
Production
37. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'
Cultural Evolution
Asian farming
Homo Habilis
Monogamy
38. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Relative time
Horticulture
Writing
Pragmatics
39. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Survival
Qualitative Research
exogamy
40. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Genpuku
Social practices
Paleolithic period
Lineage
41. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Social Class Manifestation
perforated edges
Warlike people
Genotypic Variations
42. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
Mayan indians
Reciprocity
European farming
43. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Armchair Anthropologists
War
Dead Sea scrolls
Technology development research
44. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
Absolute time
Anthropoids
International Development
45. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Genetic Recombination
Religion
State
Etic perspective
46. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Aztec indians
Market Exchange
radiometric dating
47. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
carbon-14 dating
Redistribution
Gens
Middle Paleo Period
48. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
mana
International Development
Dead Sea scrolls
Structuralism
49. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Levi-Strauss
Emile Durkheim
Neanderthals
Taboo
50. Things all people do the same way (language)
Universalities
Mayan indians
Ralph Lynton
Gene migration