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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)
Structural-functional
Moieties
Stratigraphy
Sapir-Whorf
2. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Cargo Cult
Legitimacy
Petrie
Genetic drift
3. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Writing
Egyptology
perforated edges
Polygamy
4. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Yanomamo
endogamy
Linguistics
Writing
5. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Peking Man
Sapir-Whorf
Relative time
Paleolithic period
6. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Asian farming
Ralph Lynton
Genpuku
Bronze Age
7. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Individual Peculiarities
Chiefdom
Revitalization
Cultural Anthropology
8. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Culture
Technology development research
American farming
9. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Birth of Anthropology
Archaeology
Functionalism
Cultivation
10. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Peking Man
Pragmatics
Stimulus Diffusion
Poy Tang Lon
11. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Ethnocentrism
radiometric dating
Redistribution
3 types of excavation
12. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Affinal kin
Dating methods
Evaluation research
Savagery
13. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Franz Boas
Migration of Erectus
Savagery
Hittites
14. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Religion
Asian farming
Mary Douglas Leakey
DNA
15. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
Kroeber
Agriculture
polished stone
16. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Mythology
Middle east farming
Australopithecus
Alternatives
17. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Rite of passage
Kroeber
Unit of Kinship
Band
18. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Dead Sea scrolls
Quinceanera
phenotype
19. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
polyandry
Mesolithic Period
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Egyptian diffusion
20. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Survival
Quantitative Research
Aztec indians
Mendelian population
21. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Hebrews
Matrilineal Descent
North American Indians
Yanomamo
22. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Mauss
International Development
Industrialization
Genotype
23. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Yanomamo
mana
Technology development research
Cognatic Descent
24. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Geerts
Ideal culture
Kindred
Syntax
25. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Theory of organic evolution
Geophysical prospecting
Mutation
WG Rivers
26. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Lower Paleo Period
Formal Economics
Catal Huyak
27. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
homonoids
Dating methods
Status
Cultural Evolution
28. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Linguistics
Symbol
Cargo Cult
Mythology
29. Shorthand - Morse Code
Mary Douglas Leakey
prehistoric archaeology
Condensed Symbol
Ethnocentrism
30. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
husbandry
South American indians
Diffusion
Tribe
31. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Ethnology
Superposition
Ethnocentrism
prehistoric archaeology
32. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
husbandry
Assyrians
Neolithic Period
Qualitative Research
33. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Lineage
Nistri periscope
Clan
Generalized Reciprocity
34. 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
exogamy
Modernization
Ethnocentrism
Homonids
35. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Margaret Mead
Central American indians
Birth of Anthropology
36. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Barbarism
Chiefdom
Polygamy
37. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Asian farming
Linguistics
Stratigraphy
38. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Middle Paleo Period
Armchair Anthropologists
Homo Erectus
Noosphere
39. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Chromosome
Technology development research
Generalized Reciprocity
Yanomamo Feasting
40. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Gene migration
Gene
Electromagnetic prospecting
culture
41. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
Cultural Resource Assessment
Survival
Status
42. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Individual Peculiarities
Nitrogenous Bases
Shaman
Aztec indians
43. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Tributary Production
Etic perspective
Quantitative Research
Non-warlike people
44. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Benedict
platyrrhini
Pragmatics
Genotypic Variations
45. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
European farming
Peking Man
Social practices
46. 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
Phonetics
Potlatch
Barbarism
Java Man
47. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Geosphere
chimpanzee
Magnetic prospecting
Specialities
48. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Balanced Reciprocity
European farming
Elsie Parsons
3 types of excavation
49. 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)
New World monkeys
Revitalization
Hammurabi
Fieldwork
50. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Warlike people
Band
Negative Reciprocity
Biosphere