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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Franz Boas
Status
Lineage
Benedict
2. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Real Culture
Clan
Totem
Dating methods
3. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Ralph Lynton
Cro-Magnon
Balanced Reciprocity
Theory of organic evolution
4. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Gens
Genotype
Hunter/Gatherers
Sanction
5. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Cultural Ecology
Catal Huyak
Australopithecus
Hebrews
6. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Negative Reciprocity
Fieldwork
Middle east farming
Genetic Recombination
7. 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.
Civilization
Applied Anthropology
Java Man
Allele frequency
8. 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
Modernization
Potlatch
South American indians
Gene migration
9. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Diffusion
polished stone
old world monkeys
Polygamy
10. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Noosphere
Revitalization
Referencial Symbol
11. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Kinship
Mesopotamia
Benedict
Social practices
12. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Mauss
Formal Economics
Morphology
Stratigraphy
13. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Cross-cousins
Evaluation research
Directed Cultural Change
Animism
14. 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
Pacific indians
Substantive Economics
Family of procreation
Modernization
15. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Chromosome
Kindred
Quinceanera
Noosphere
16. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Diffusion
Universalities
Divorce
Pacific indians
17. 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.
Dead Sea scrolls
Nuclear Family
Natural selection
Mauss
18. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Feudal System
Geosphere
old world monkeys
Mutation
19. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Egypt
Barbarism
Syntax
Cro-Magnon
20. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Dating methods
Animal domestication
New World monkeys
Schliemann
21. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Yanomamo Feasting
Bands & Tribes
Semantics
culture
22. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Specialities
Middle Paleo Period
Levy-Bruhl
homonoids
23. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Specialities
Cultural Anthropology
Non-warlike people
Magnetic prospecting
24. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Migration of Erectus
Divorce
Qualitative Research
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
25. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
New World monkeys
Social Class Manifestation
Cultural Anthropology
Cultivation
26. (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)
Emile Durkheim
Stimulus Diffusion
Neolithic Period
Conspicuous Consumption
27. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Modernization
Phonetics
McLennan
Homo Erectus
28. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Chiefdom
Austrailia indians
Stratigraphy
Ethnography
29. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Central American indians
perforated edges
Agriculture
Radcliffe-Brown
30. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Cargo Cult
Peking Man
Savagery
Lower Paleo Period
31. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Phonetics
Cultural Anthropology
primates
32. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Natural selection
Stimulus Diffusion
Cro-Magnon
Writing
33. 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
Birth of Anthropology
Mendel's third principle of genetics
radiometric dating
Applied Anthropology
34. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Java Man
Poy Tang Lon
Allele frequency
Individual Peculiarities
35. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.
Cultivation
Sondages
prehistoric archaeology
Mendel's second principle of genetics
36. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Structuralism
Redistribution
Structural-functional
Savagery
37. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Peking Man
Hebrews
Cross-cousins
Mauss
38. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
homonoids
Nistri periscope
exogamy
Warlike people
39. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Phonetics
Cargo Cult
Unit of Kinship
Band
40. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Specialities
Cultural relativism
Mutagen
Matrilineal Descent
41. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Nitrogenous Bases
Nuclear Family
Franz Boas
homonoids
42. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
KhoiKhoi
Genpuku
Reciprocity
Directed Cultural Change
43. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
European farming
phenotype
Middle east farming
Balanced Reciprocity
44. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Upper Paleo period
Allele frequency
chimpanzee
Referencial Symbol
45. Civilization to invent 'zero'
babylonians
African Economic Organization
Animal domestication
Non-warlike people
46. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Schliemann
homonoids
Modernization
47. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Evaluation research
Civilization
Mythology
48. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
polyandry
Catal Huyak
culture
Homo Habilis
49. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Dokimasi
Gene migration
Cross-cousins
European farming
50. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Gene pool
Superposition
Catal Huyak
Ethnography