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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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)
Hebrews
Shaman
Malinowski
exogamy
2. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Mesolithic Period
Relative time
Tributary Production
Magnetic prospecting
3. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
Caste
Culture
Phases of rituals
4. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Pragmatics
Hunter/Gatherers
Referencial Symbol
Real Culture
5. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Technology development research
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Cargo Cult
State
6. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
Mayan indians
Substantive Economics
Affinal kin
7. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Levy-Bruhl
exogamy
North American Indians
Status
8. 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
McLennan
Superposition
Applied Anthropology
Semantics
9. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Mesopotamia
Kluckhohn
Negative Reciprocity
10. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Catal Huyak
Chiefdom
Physical Anthropology
Greeks
11. 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)
Neanderthals
Nuclear Family
Social Darwinism
Condensed Symbol
12. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Neolithic Technology
Unilineal Descent
Structuralism
Allele frequency
13. 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.
Genotypic Variations
State
International Development
Universalities
14. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
chimpanzee
Mendelian population
gene flow
Austrailia indians
15. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Survival
Anthropoids
Cro-Magnon
Gene pool
16. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
EB Tylor
Rite of passage
Phratry
Cognatic Descent
17. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Directed Cultural Change
polished stone
Geophysical prospecting
European farming
18. 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
Stratigraphy
Syntax
Leakey family
Modernization
19. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
classical archaeology
Fieldwork
Greeks
State
20. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Substantive Economics
Upper Paleo period
polished stone
Natural selection
21. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Dating methods
Mesolithic Period
Totem
European farming
22. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Superposition
Band
primates
chimpanzee
23. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
DNA
Mesolithic Period
Caste
Mendel's second principle of genetics
24. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Levy-Bruhl
Shaman
Catal Huyak
Affinal kin
25. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Bands & Tribes
Neolithic Period
Negative Reciprocity
North American Indians
26. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Anthropoids
Cultivation
Allele
Monarchy
27. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Neanderthals
Modernization
Cargo Cult
husbandry
28. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
International Development
Geerts
Aztec indians
Hammurabi
29. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Sapir-Whorf
Non-warlike people
Animism
Neanderthals
30. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
exogamy
Technology development research
Geosphere
Cross-cousins
31. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
polished stone
American farming
Evaluation research
32. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Geophysical prospecting
Linguistics
radiometric dating
Gene migration
33. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Homonids
Directed Cultural Change
exogamy
pastoralism
34. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Taboo
Electromagnetic prospecting
State
Policy Research
35. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Clan
Shaman
Leakey family
platyrrhini
36. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
endogamy
European farming
Mythology
old world monkeys
37. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
chimpanzee
3 types of excavation
Geosphere
Elsie Parsons
38. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Syntax
Egypt
Polygamy
Lower Paleo Period
39. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Sanction
Java Man
Class
Geerts
40. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Elsie Parsons
Cargo Cult
Franz Boas
Mutation
41. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Individual Peculiarities
Homo Erectus
James George Frazer
Hebrews
42. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Religion
Central American indians
Mary Douglas Leakey
43. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
WG Rivers
Theory of organic evolution
DNA
Emic perspective
44. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Yanomamo
Asian farming
Bands & Tribes
Sapir-Whorf
45. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Potlatch
Middle Paleo Period
mana
Hammurabi
46. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Quinceanera
Potlatch
Monogamy
Gene pool
47. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
radiometric dating
Real Culture
Kindred
Geerts
48. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Feudal System
James George Frazer
Cultural relativism
carbon-14 dating
49. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Bronze Age
Warlike people
Levirate
Diffusion
50. 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)
Revitalization
Neanderthals
Kindred
Dokimasi