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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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]
Pragmatics
Franz Boas
Gene pool
Asian farming
2. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
prehistoric archaeology
Lower Paleo Period
Emic perspective
Central American indians
3. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Social Class Manifestation
primates
Morphology
Cross-cousins
4. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Homo Habilis
Sanction
Social impact assessment
Radcliffe-Brown
5. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
McLennan
homonoids
Austrailia indians
6. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Yanomamo
Individual Peculiarities
Industrialization
polyandry
7. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Cargo Cult
Feudal System
Gens
perforated edges
8. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Cultural Evolution
Myth
Anthropometry
Negative Reciprocity
9. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Mendelian population
Gene pool
Armchair Anthropologists
Physical Anthropology
10. (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)
Electromagnetic prospecting
Civilization
Neolithic Period
Caste
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. 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.
Quinceanera
Natural selection
prosimians
Emile Durkheim
13. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Syntax
Margaret Mead
Class
Unilineal Descent
14. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Formal Economics
Ethnology
Monogamy
Absolute time
15. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Totem
American farming
Nitrogenous Bases
Upper Paleo period
16. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Unilineal Descent
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cultural relativism
Band
17. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Geosphere
State
Matrilineal Descent
Diffusion
18. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
KhoiKhoi
Barbarism
Modernization
sharp edges
19. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
KhoiKhoi
Hammurabi
Olduvai Gorge
Semantics
20. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Cro-Magnon
Sumerians
primates
21. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Genpuku
primates
Quinceanera
Condensed Symbol
22. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
Warlike people
Ritual
perforated edges
Animism
23. 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
Genotype
Potlatch
Cargo Cult
Ritual
24. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Formal Economics
Ethnography
Myth
Genpuku
25. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Genetic Recombination
carbon-14 dating
Redistribution
Religion
26. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
Writing
Modernization
WG Rivers
27. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Applied Anthropology
3 types of excavation
Absolute time
Genpuku
28. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
gene flow
Birth of Anthropology
Radcliffe-Brown
Migration of Erectus
29. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Excavation
North American Indians
Shaman
polished stone
30. 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)
American farming
Morphology
Balanced Reciprocity
Divorce
31. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Cultural relativism
exogamy
Weber
Geophysical prospecting
32. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Yanomamo Feasting
Weber
Fieldwork
Geerts
33. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
Mythology
Quinceanera
Ritual
34. 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.
Cultural Evolution
Rite of passage
Assyrians
polyandry
35. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Homonids
Status
Monogamy
36. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Barbarism
Archaeology
Animal domestication
Anthropometry
37. 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
old world monkeys
African Economic Organization
Applied Anthropology
Bronze Age
38. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Tributary Production
Migration of Erectus
Anthropology
Sumerians
39. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Semantics
Theory of organic evolution
Mendel's first principle of genetics
40. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Ritual
Tributary Production
Pragmatics
Lower Paleo Period
41. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Chiefdom
Archaeology
Qualitative Research
Neolithic Technology
42. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
African Economic Organization
Totem
homonoids
43. Relatives through marriage
Warlike people
Affinal kin
Qualitative Research
Unit of Kinship
44. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Yanomamo
Hittites
Ritual
Pragmatics
45. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Java Man
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Pragmatics
Yanomamo
46. 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
Ritual
Non-warlike people
Modernization
Biosphere
47. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Austrailia indians
classical archaeology
Weber
48. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
New World monkeys
Levy-Bruhl
Animism
Pacific indians
49. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
South American indians
husbandry
Culture
50. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Paleolithic period
Horticulture
Animal domestication
Australopithecus