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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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2. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Geosphere
Referencial Symbol
Unilineal Descent
pastoralism
3. (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
Hunter/Gatherers
Relative time
Genetic Recombination
Status
4. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Stratigraphy
War
Franz Boas
Specialities
5. 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)
Gens
Bronze Age
Revitalization
Middle east farming
6. (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
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
polished stone
Market Exchange
Animism
7. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Mythology
Geophysical prospecting
Emile Durkheim
8. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
primates
Horticulture
homonoids
Civilization
9. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
European farming
Geophysical prospecting
Assyrians
classical archaeology
10. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Feudal System
Genetic drift
Ziggurat
Phratry
11. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Balanced Reciprocity
African Economic Organization
Real Culture
pastoralism
12. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Excavation
Formal Economics
Homo Erectus
Alternatives
13. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Culture
Malinowski
Cultural relativism
Semantics
14. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Absolute time
Warlike people
Band
Archaeology
15. 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
mana
Hunter/Gatherers
McLennan
European farming
16. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Middle east farming
Poy Tang Lon
prehistoric archaeology
Middle Paleo Period
17. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
endogamy
polyandry
Savagery
Egyptology
18. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
prosimians
Levy-Bruhl
Emic perspective
19. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Gene pool
WG Rivers
Sapir-Whorf
Ethnocentrism
20. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Hunter/Gatherers
Tributary Production
Agriculture
Revitalization
21. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Homonids
Policy Research
Benedict
Dokimasi
22. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Migration of Erectus
Directed Cultural Change
Policy Research
Malinowski
23. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Quantitative Research
Real Culture
Formal Economics
Religion
24. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
Allele
Superposition
Cultural Ecology
25. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Dokimasi
Australopithecus
Status
Egyptology
26. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
European farming
carbon-14 dating
Ethnography
Mutagen
27. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Moieties
Ideal culture
Unit of Kinship
Warlike people
28. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
perforated edges
Phonetics
Policy Research
29. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Directed Cultural Change
Syntax
Myth
30. 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
Sondages
Survival
Phases of rituals
Applied Anthropology
31. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
European farming
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Excavation
Asian farming
32. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
homonoids
Gene
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Mutation
33. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Poy Tang Lon
Emile Durkheim
Status
Egyptian diffusion
34. 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..
primates
Middle east farming
Dead Sea scrolls
Negative Reciprocity
35. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Yanomamo
Matrilineal Descent
Assyrians
Redistribution
36. 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
Emile Durkheim
Agriculture
Morphology
37. New family you form when you marry and have children.
KhoiKhoi
Neolithic Period
Conspicuous Consumption
Family of procreation
38. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Social Class Manifestation
Homo Erectus
Diffusion
39. 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.
Anthropology
Kluckhohn
Lower Paleo Period
State
40. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Crossing over
Legitimacy
Elsie Parsons
Substantive Economics
41. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
New World monkeys
Aztec indians
Hammurabi
Morphology
42. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
3 types of excavation
Armchair Anthropologists
Horticulture
Family of orientation
43. Thinkers: linguistics
Affinal kin
prosimians
Australopithecus
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
44. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Agriculture
Geerts
Individual Peculiarities
Ethnocentrism
45. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Homo Habilis
Functionalism
Mythology
Sondages
46. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Social Class Manifestation
Diffusion
Alternatives
Poy Tang Lon
47. (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)
Neolithic Period
Referencial Symbol
Horticulture
primates
48. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Nitrogenous Bases
Quinceanera
Pragmatics
International Development
49. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
South American indians
Legitimacy
culture
Elsie Parsons
50. Traces back to ONE person
Lineage
Mayan indians
gene flow
Functionalism