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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
prosimians
Cargo Cult
Referencial Symbol
Asian farming
2. New family you form when you marry and have children.
homonoids
Family of procreation
Ethnocentrism
babylonians
3. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Ralph Lynton
Margaret Mead
Archaeology
WG Rivers
4. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Kindred
Pragmatics
Condensed Symbol
James George Frazer
5. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Nuclear Family
Leakey family
old world monkeys
Morphology
6. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Noosphere
Ralph Lynton
Survival
Sumerians
7. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Genpuku
Margaret Mead
South American indians
Australopithecus
8. 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..
classical archaeology
Dead Sea scrolls
Homo Erectus
Genetic Recombination
9. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Cargo Cult
Allele frequency
Greeks
Cro-Magnon
10. Relatives through marriage
Writing
babylonians
Affinal kin
Benedict
11. (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
Tributary Production
Catal Huyak
Mesolithic Period
American farming
12. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Hittites
gene flow
Migration of Erectus
chimpanzee
13. Determining the success of a project
Hittites
Evaluation research
Asian farming
Family of procreation
14. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Crossing over
Religion
endogamy
Levi-Strauss
15. 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
perforated edges
Emic perspective
Unilineal Descent
16. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Anthropoids
Electromagnetic prospecting
Franz Boas
Geerts
17. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Cargo Cult
Gene pool
Unit of Kinship
Technology development research
18. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Shaman
Chiefdom
Taboo
Franz Boas
19. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Clan
Redistribution
Quinceanera
Absolute time
20. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Linguistics
Warlike people
Schliemann
Lower Paleo Period
21. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
exogamy
Quantitative Research
Cargo Cult
Egypt
22. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Central American indians
Referencial Symbol
Potlatch
23. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Neanderthals
Structural-functional
Semantics
Chiefdom
24. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Phonetics
Egyptian diffusion
Feudal System
Alternatives
25. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Mutagen
Neolithic Period
Morphology
Applied Anthropology
26. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Nitrogenous Bases
Animal domestication
Emile Durkheim
27. (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)
homonoids
Bands & Tribes
Electromagnetic prospecting
Neolithic Period
28. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
babylonians
Dating methods
Social impact assessment
29. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Geerts
State
Substantive Economics
Africa
30. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
culture
Agriculture
Phases of rituals
Directed Cultural Change
31. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
European farming
old world monkeys
Quantitative Research
Cro-Magnon
32. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Relative time
Cargo Cult
Nitrogenous Bases
Cognatic Descent
33. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
prosimians
Africa
Clan
Genetic drift
34. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Natural selection
Nitrogenous Bases
Potlatch
New World monkeys
35. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Java Man
Neolithic Period
Tribe
platyrrhini
36. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Adaptation
Linguistics
Caste
Yanomamo Feasting
37. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Chiefdom
Africa
Genetic drift
Cognatic Descent
38. 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)
Linguistics
Phratry
Syntax
Divorce
39. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Religion
Nuclear Family
Levi-Strauss
Excavation
40. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Armchair Anthropologists
Matrilineal Descent
Weber
culture
41. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Animal domestication
Market Exchange
Formal Economics
Hunter/Gatherers
42. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
homonoids
Horticulture
Ralph Lynton
Gene migration
43. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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44. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
3 types of excavation
Egyptian diffusion
Cultural relativism
Nuclear Family
45. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
homonoids
Cultural relativism
mana
Real Culture
46. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Affinal kin
American farming
Social Darwinism
Sanction
47. Spread of something from one group to another
Applied Anthropology
Physical Anthropology
Diffusion
Nistri periscope
48. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Cultural Ecology
Ritual
Egyptian diffusion
Warlike people
49. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Mutagen
Hittites
Syntax
50. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Franz Boas
Egypt
Unilineal Descent
Ziggurat