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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
James George Frazer
Kinship
Ralph Lynton
Bronze Age
2. 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
old world monkeys
Poy Tang Lon
Stimulus Diffusion
Redistribution
3. Things all people do the same way (language)
Substantive Economics
Cro-Magnon
Universalities
Status
4. 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
WG Rivers
Gene pool
Middle east farming
Unit of Kinship
5. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Stratigraphy
Franz Boas
Archaeology
Sumerians
6. 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)
Geerts
Cultural Anthropology
mana
Revitalization
7. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Kinship
Allele
Relative time
Armchair Anthropologists
8. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Emile Durkheim
Neolithic Period
Yanomamo Feasting
Schliemann
9. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Genetic drift
Dokimasi
Warlike people
Etic perspective
10. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Referencial Symbol
Functionalism
Benedict
11. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Homo Habilis
Kindred
Legitimacy
Petrie
12. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Adaptation
Mayan indians
Ralph Lynton
classical archaeology
13. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cognatic Descent
Nuclear Family
Allele
Franz Boas
14. 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
Cro-Magnon
Modernization
platyrrhini
Genetic Recombination
15. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Cargo Cult
KhoiKhoi
Paleolithic period
McLennan
16. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Quinceanera
Social impact assessment
Dead Sea scrolls
Kinship
17. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Middle Paleo Period
International Development
Intervention Anthropology
Egyptian diffusion
18. 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
Applied Anthropology
Radcliffe-Brown
Non-warlike people
Etic perspective
19. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Adaptation
Anthropology
Geosphere
Franz Boas
20. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Natural selection
Hammurabi
Ethnocentrism
polished stone
21. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Chiefdom
phenotype
Levy-Bruhl
Conspicuous Consumption
22. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Chiefdom
American farming
Gene
Cultural Resource Assessment
23. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
WG Rivers
Class
Mutation
24. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Bronze Age
Gene pool
Fieldwork
25. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
old world monkeys
Sondages
Electromagnetic prospecting
Geophysical prospecting
26. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animal domestication
old world monkeys
Phonetics
Referencial Symbol
27. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Cultural Ecology
phenotype
culture
Balanced Reciprocity
28. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
War
Status
Schliemann
Kinship
29. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
chimpanzee
Cognatic Descent
Caste
Evaluation research
30. 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
Geerts
Mauss
Central American indians
Neanderthals
31. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Civilization
Survival
Formal Economics
State
32. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Unilineal Descent
Kindred
Balanced Reciprocity
Phases of rituals
33. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Affinal kin
Absolute time
polished stone
Yanomamo Feasting
34. (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
chimpanzee
Hunter/Gatherers
Gens
Feudal System
35. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Ralph Lynton
Modernization
Genetic Recombination
36. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Hammurabi
Lower Paleo Period
Nitrogenous Bases
carbon-14 dating
37. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
perforated edges
Dokimasi
Superposition
Leakey family
38. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Civilization
Crossing over
Adaptation
mana
39. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
Clan
Civilization
Survival
40. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
Anthropoids
Semantics
Hittites
41. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Tributary Production
Homo Erectus
Band
Mendel's first principle of genetics
42. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Excavation
Alternatives
Caste
Petrie
43. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Status
Mary Douglas Leakey
Real Culture
WG Rivers
44. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
James George Frazer
Anthropology
Referencial Symbol
Poy Tang Lon
45. (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
State
Mesolithic Period
Geerts
Conspicuous Consumption
46. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
perforated edges
Social impact assessment
Non-warlike people
Policy Research
47. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Java Man
Homonids
radiometric dating
Sondages
48. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
James George Frazer
Java Man
Ritual
old world monkeys
49. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Status
Aztec indians
Caste
Unilineal Descent
50. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Anthropology
Yanomamo
phenotype
Mutagen