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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Structural-functional
Technology development research
Cargo Cult
Legitimacy
2. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Evaluation research
babylonians
African Economic Organization
Gene migration
3. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Myth
Greeks
Mayan indians
Cargo Cult
4. (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)
Revitalization
Cultivation
Neolithic Period
Polygamy
5. 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
Class
Applied Anthropology
Olduvai Gorge
Peking Man
6. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Market Exchange
Symbol
Allele
Ethnocentrism
7. Family that raised you
Non-warlike people
Radcliffe-Brown
Poy Tang Lon
Family of orientation
8. 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.
Animal domestication
Structuralism
Ideal culture
Feudal System
9. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
gene flow
Negative Reciprocity
carbon-14 dating
Real Culture
10. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
classical archaeology
Levirate
babylonians
11. Ways to date artifacts
Industrialization
Chiefdom
Egyptology
Dating methods
12. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Applied Anthropology
Greeks
Levirate
homonoids
13. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
American farming
Mauss
Levy-Bruhl
Diffusion
14. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Neolithic Period
Cargo Cult
Semantics
Genetic Recombination
15. Thinkers: linguistics
Excavation
Policy Research
Qualitative Research
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
16. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Cultivation
Agriculture
Mendel's third principle of genetics
17. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Policy Research
Structural-functional
Ziggurat
platyrrhini
18. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Religion
primates
Referencial Symbol
Cultural Evolution
19. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Sondages
American farming
Cultural relativism
Allele frequency
20. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Emile Durkheim
Clan
Assyrians
Civilization
21. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Applied Anthropology
Social Darwinism
Cargo Cult
Balanced Reciprocity
22. 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
Monogamy
husbandry
Redistribution
KhoiKhoi
23. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Mary Douglas Leakey
Monogamy
Alternatives
Real Culture
24. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
radiometric dating
Gene migration
Individual Peculiarities
Sumerians
25. 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)
Divorce
Genetic Recombination
Crossing over
Hebrews
26. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
DNA
Cultural relativism
Structural-functional
Pragmatics
27. Thinker: social stratification
pastoralism
Ralph Lynton
Weber
Phonology
28. 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
Natural selection
mana
Levirate
29. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Franz Boas
Nitrogenous Bases
Birth of Anthropology
Social impact assessment
30. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Benedict
Migration of Erectus
Levy-Bruhl
Cognatic Descent
31. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Yanomamo
Central American indians
Chiefdom
Anthropometry
32. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Olduvai Gorge
Mesopotamia
Middle Paleo Period
Clan
33. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
classical archaeology
Homonids
Hittites
Morphology
34. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
husbandry
Structural-functional
Allele
Agriculture
35. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Cultural Ecology
Bronze Age
Mary Douglas Leakey
Geosphere
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.
Gene
Syntax
Cross-cousins
Natural selection
37. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Kindred
carbon-14 dating
Religion
Mendelian population
38. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
radiometric dating
Mendel's third principle of genetics
carbon-14 dating
Levi-Strauss
39. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Kluckhohn
Bands & Tribes
Taboo
Nitrogenous Bases
40. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Cultural relativism
Benedict
Religion
Diffusion
41. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Unit of Kinship
Pragmatics
Allele
Taboo
42. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Industrialization
classical archaeology
Mendelian population
43. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Social practices
Savagery
Assyrians
Archaeology
44. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Genetic drift
Quantitative Research
Feudal System
Olduvai Gorge
45. 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..
DNA
Levirate
Dead Sea scrolls
Chiefdom
46. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Austrailia indians
3 types of excavation
Cognatic Descent
Mesopotamia
47. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Lineage
Tribe
Yanomamo
War
48. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Nuclear Family
Clan
Cross-cousins
Dokimasi
49. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Olduvai Gorge
Middle east farming
Allele
50. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Band
Production
Status
Ideal culture