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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
State
Sanction
Levi-Strauss
Caste
2. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Balanced Reciprocity
Elsie Parsons
chimpanzee
Quinceanera
3. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Policy Research
Ethnocentrism
Australopithecus
4. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Gene pool
Peking Man
Barbarism
Cargo Cult
5. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
Ritual
Gens
Hebrews
European farming
6. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Clan
Horticulture
Social practices
Substantive Economics
7. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Directed Cultural Change
Weber
Aztec indians
Peking Man
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
Potlatch
War
Symbol
Ritual
9. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Semantics
Diffusion
Malinowski
10. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Superposition
Family of procreation
Mesopotamia
Polygamy
11. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Family of orientation
Genpuku
Kluckhohn
12. Determining the success of a project
Weber
Evaluation research
Franz Boas
Syntax
13. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Cargo Cult
Tribe
Stratigraphy
Cultural relativism
14. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Geosphere
International Development
Status
Kindred
15. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
chimpanzee
Java Man
Levirate
16. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Social impact assessment
Feudal System
Savagery
Animism
17. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Homo Erectus
Phases of rituals
Cro-Magnon
Gene migration
18. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Yanomamo
Kinship
Intervention Anthropology
South American indians
19. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Intervention Anthropology
Middle east farming
Individual Peculiarities
Band
20. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Cultural Ecology
culture
Yanomamo Feasting
Leakey family
21. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Upper Paleo period
Levy-Bruhl
platyrrhini
Hunter/Gatherers
22. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Paleolithic period
Barbarism
Cargo Cult
polyandry
23. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Upper Paleo period
Mesopotamia
Sumerians
Ethnography
24. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Adaptation
Universalities
Chromosome
Hammurabi
25. 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.
prehistoric archaeology
Franz Boas
Unit of Kinship
Java Man
26. Holistic study of humanity.
Etic perspective
Animal domestication
Margaret Mead
Anthropology
27. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Biosphere
Relative time
Cultural Evolution
Anthropoids
28. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
classical archaeology
Semantics
War
International Development
29. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Asian farming
Kluckhohn
South American indians
primates
30. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Specialities
Birth of Anthropology
Genpuku
31. (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)
polished stone
Neolithic Period
Cultural relativism
Clan
32. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
perforated edges
Market Exchange
Genpuku
Kroeber
33. 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'
Individual Peculiarities
Homo Habilis
Qualitative Research
Phases of rituals
34. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Unit of Kinship
Geerts
Genotype
Monogamy
35. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Mauss
Cargo Cult
mana
Phonology
36. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Pragmatics
Structural-functional
DNA
Sondages
37. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Kroeber
Specialities
carbon-14 dating
Levy-Bruhl
38. Relatives through marriage
Affinal kin
Ziggurat
Polygamy
Clan
39. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
Lower Paleo Period
Status
Religion
40. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Genpuku
Matrilineal Descent
Social Class Manifestation
Crossing over
41. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Allele
Dating methods
Monogamy
Emic perspective
42. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Universalities
Biosphere
Referencial Symbol
Middle Paleo Period
43. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
McLennan
International Development
Matrilineal Descent
Tribe
44. 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.
Cultural Ecology
Emile Durkheim
Civilization
Relative time
45. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
homonoids
Theory of organic evolution
Genotype
Cro-Magnon
46. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Noosphere
Cultural Resource Assessment
Cultural relativism
Middle Paleo Period
47. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
Central American indians
exogamy
Monarchy
48. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Archaeology
Franz Boas
Dating methods
Functionalism
49. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
Neolithic Period
African Economic Organization
Matrilineal Descent
50. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Cultural Resource Assessment
Cognatic Descent
Mutation
Genotype