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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
WG Rivers
Dating methods
Upper Paleo period
Structural-functional
2. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Kroeber
Stratigraphy
Mendelian population
Lineage
3. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Levirate
Aztec indians
Cognatic Descent
Negative Reciprocity
4. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Genetic drift
KhoiKhoi
Quinceanera
Survival
5. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
platyrrhini
Java Man
Ethnography
Africa
6. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
sharp edges
Stimulus Diffusion
Lineage
EB Tylor
7. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
perforated edges
Birth of Anthropology
Phonology
Excavation
8. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Dead Sea scrolls
Non-warlike people
Levi-Strauss
Ziggurat
9. Thinker: social stratification
Genotypic Variations
Structural-functional
Ziggurat
Weber
10. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Upper Paleo period
African Economic Organization
sharp edges
exogamy
11. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Diffusion
Mesopotamia
Radcliffe-Brown
homonoids
12. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
WG Rivers
Writing
Caste
Status
13. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Austrailia indians
Moieties
Benedict
Taboo
14. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Middle east farming
Rite of passage
Levy-Bruhl
James George Frazer
15. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
South American indians
Lower Paleo Period
Social Darwinism
Mayan indians
16. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
chimpanzee
Religion
Social practices
Dating methods
17. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Technology development research
Yanomamo
Individual Peculiarities
Gene migration
18. 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)
Levirate
endogamy
Egyptology
Divorce
19. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Schliemann
Bronze Age
Geerts
Anthropoids
20. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Allele
Java Man
McLennan
21. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
exogamy
Revitalization
Etic perspective
Africa
22. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Technology development research
Cultural Resource Assessment
Linguistics
Mutation
23. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Social Class Manifestation
Chiefdom
Stratigraphy
husbandry
24. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Homo Erectus
Migration of Erectus
Kroeber
exogamy
25. Family that raised you
Lower Paleo Period
Family of orientation
Referencial Symbol
classical archaeology
26. 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
Weber
Substantive Economics
gene flow
prehistoric archaeology
27. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Policy Research
carbon-14 dating
polyandry
28. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Specialities
Hunter/Gatherers
Franz Boas
Natural selection
29. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
platyrrhini
Malinowski
Culture
Unilineal Descent
30. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Mythology
Syntax
Balanced Reciprocity
Peking Man
31. 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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32. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Crossing over
Myth
Agriculture
Superposition
33. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Pacific indians
Natural selection
Culture
Negative Reciprocity
34. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Noosphere
Australopithecus
Conspicuous Consumption
Revitalization
35. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Geophysical prospecting
Real Culture
radiometric dating
Nitrogenous Bases
36. (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)
Family of procreation
Structural-functional
Mutagen
Neolithic Period
37. 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
Chiefdom
Unit of Kinship
Class
Cargo Cult
38. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
chimpanzee
Biosphere
Superposition
Status
39. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Electromagnetic prospecting
Kindred
Africa
Unilineal Descent
40. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Social Darwinism
sharp edges
Peking Man
Cargo Cult
41. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Polygamy
Survival
Mary Douglas Leakey
Cro-Magnon
42. 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
sharp edges
Dokimasi
International Development
Formal Economics
43. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Balanced Reciprocity
Emic perspective
Egyptian diffusion
Chromosome
44. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Functionalism
Genpuku
carbon-14 dating
Rite of passage
45. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
South American indians
Levy-Bruhl
Genotypic Variations
Real Culture
46. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Morphology
sharp edges
Kroeber
culture
47. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
Diffusion
Archaeology
3 types of excavation
48. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Pacific indians
Phonology
Genpuku
platyrrhini
49. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotype
DNA
Mayan indians
Relative time
50. <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
Alternatives
Mayan indians
Upper Paleo period
North American Indians