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DSST General Anthropology
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1. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
European farming
Unilineal Descent
Stimulus Diffusion
prosimians
2. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Quinceanera
Shaman
Hebrews
Genetic Recombination
3. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Catal Huyak
Franz Boas
Production
4. 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)
culture
Revitalization
American farming
Gene
5. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
James George Frazer
Armchair Anthropologists
Religion
primates
6. Holistic study of humanity.
Austrailia indians
Hunter/Gatherers
Anthropology
Egyptian diffusion
7. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Biosphere
Family of orientation
Egypt
Sanction
8. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
radiometric dating
Non-warlike people
DNA
polyandry
9. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Neolithic Period
Radcliffe-Brown
Alternatives
Evaluation research
10. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Cargo Cult
Yanomamo Feasting
Generalized Reciprocity
Mauss
11. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Potlatch
Relative time
Dokimasi
culture
12. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Mary Douglas Leakey
Legitimacy
Rite of passage
Market Exchange
13. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Schliemann
Chromosome
Social Darwinism
Absolute time
14. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Petrie
Weber
husbandry
Natural selection
15. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Lower Paleo Period
Conspicuous Consumption
Kluckhohn
Balanced Reciprocity
16. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Structuralism
Benedict
exogamy
Kinship
17. (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)
Anthropology
Archaeology
Neolithic Period
Social practices
18. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Non-warlike people
Ralph Lynton
Schliemann
Chiefdom
19. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Cultural Ecology
Electromagnetic prospecting
Monogamy
Lineage
20. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Gene migration
platyrrhini
Neanderthals
Condensed Symbol
21. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Central American indians
Tributary Production
Hebrews
Non-warlike people
22. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Linguistics
gene flow
old world monkeys
Chiefdom
23. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Clan
Mary Douglas Leakey
polyandry
Natural selection
24. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Conspicuous Consumption
Real Culture
Kindred
Universalities
25. 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..
Dead Sea scrolls
homonoids
Bands & Tribes
Gens
26. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Neanderthals
Levy-Bruhl
Warlike people
Upper Paleo period
27. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cognatic Descent
Armchair Anthropologists
Neanderthals
Paleolithic period
28. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
pastoralism
Barbarism
Mutation
Homonids
29. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Class
Animal domestication
Excavation
Genpuku
30. 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)
homonoids
Stimulus Diffusion
Social Darwinism
Mendel's first principle of genetics
31. (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
Gens
Animism
Excavation
Formal Economics
32. 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'
Homo Habilis
Tributary Production
polyandry
Cargo Cult
33. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Monogamy
Levirate
Dating methods
Unilineal Descent
34. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Quantitative Research
Dokimasi
Qualitative Research
Conspicuous Consumption
35. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Leakey family
Emic perspective
Structuralism
Writing
36. 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.
KhoiKhoi
Natural selection
Genpuku
Alternatives
37. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
African Economic Organization
WG Rivers
Negative Reciprocity
Cultural relativism
38. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
babylonians
Allele
EB Tylor
Unilineal Descent
39. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
40. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Nistri periscope
Semantics
Polygamy
Religion
41. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Armchair Anthropologists
Migration of Erectus
Java Man
42. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Social Class Manifestation
Petrie
Alternatives
Quantitative Research
43. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Genetic Recombination
Mesopotamia
pastoralism
Homo Erectus
44. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Mary Douglas Leakey
Production
Structuralism
Phonetics
45. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Animal domestication
Nistri periscope
Hunter/Gatherers
culture
46. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Kroeber
Negative Reciprocity
Totem
Animism
47. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
War
Schliemann
Asian farming
Geerts
48. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Unit of Kinship
Cargo Cult
Ideal culture
Non-warlike people
49. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Hittites
Ralph Lynton
Warlike people
Poy Tang Lon
50. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
American farming
Paleolithic period
Neanderthals
Kinship