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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
Schliemann
Etic perspective
Egypt
2. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Egypt
perforated edges
Malinowski
Gens
3. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Negative Reciprocity
Genotype
Petrie
Middle Paleo Period
4. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Upper Paleo period
Ethnology
Egyptian diffusion
Aztec indians
5. Spread of something from one group to another
Diffusion
EB Tylor
Syntax
exogamy
6. 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
Symbol
Cultural Resource Assessment
Redistribution
Referencial Symbol
7. 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
Superposition
Excavation
Modernization
Java Man
8. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Peking Man
Excavation
Revitalization
Quinceanera
9. Determining the success of a project
Mauss
Religion
Evaluation research
Migration of Erectus
10. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Armchair Anthropologists
State
Cultural relativism
11. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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12. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
North American Indians
Syntax
polyandry
Mutation
13. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Cognatic Descent
Structural-functional
Phases of rituals
Cultural Anthropology
14. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Petrie
Poy Tang Lon
Reciprocity
Sapir-Whorf
15. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Chromosome
Savagery
Peking Man
Moieties
16. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Writing
Benedict
Functionalism
Anthropoids
17. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Poy Tang Lon
Structural-functional
Nuclear Family
3 types of excavation
18. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Warlike people
culture
Paleolithic period
Theory of organic evolution
19. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Market Exchange
Dating methods
Syntax
South American indians
20. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Status
Religion
Survival
21. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Diffusion
European farming
Legitimacy
Morphology
22. 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)
Ethnocentrism
Pacific indians
Social Darwinism
Lineage
23. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Crossing over
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Survival
Intervention Anthropology
24. Relatives through marriage
Affinal kin
Aztec indians
Geerts
Austrailia indians
25. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Upper Paleo period
Schliemann
International Development
Malinowski
26. 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.
Structuralism
Tributary Production
Natural selection
Lower Paleo Period
27. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Cognatic Descent
pastoralism
Culture
Universalities
28. 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'
Levy-Bruhl
Unit of Kinship
Homo Habilis
Mythology
29. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Generalized Reciprocity
Industrialization
Ralph Lynton
Lower Paleo Period
30. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Neolithic Period
Theory of organic evolution
Cultural relativism
Cultural Evolution
31. 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.
Social Class Manifestation
homonoids
Animism
Egypt
32. 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).
Social impact assessment
Cultivation
Shaman
Unit of Kinship
33. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Band
Cultivation
Geophysical prospecting
Egyptian diffusion
34. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Benedict
Pragmatics
culture
Egyptology
35. Holistic study of humanity.
Etic perspective
Anthropology
Potlatch
Shaman
36. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Chiefdom
Social Class Manifestation
Linguistics
Egyptian diffusion
37. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Stimulus Diffusion
Neanderthals
Directed Cultural Change
polished stone
38. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Emic perspective
Referencial Symbol
Java Man
State
39. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Reciprocity
old world monkeys
Africa
Cultural Ecology
40. 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)
Phratry
Myth
Hunter/Gatherers
European farming
41. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Ziggurat
Noosphere
Neanderthals
42. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
polyandry
Legitimacy
perforated edges
Quantitative Research
43. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Theory of organic evolution
Cargo Cult
Kinship
Shaman
44. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Franz Boas
EB Tylor
Egyptology
45. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
American farming
Egypt
Kroeber
Kluckhohn
46. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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47. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Cargo Cult
prehistoric archaeology
Radcliffe-Brown
Totem
48. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Kluckhohn
Greeks
Mendelian population
3 types of excavation
49. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Cargo Cult
Cross-cousins
primates
Monarchy
50. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Poy Tang Lon
Mesolithic Period
Levi-Strauss
Rite of passage