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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Industrialization
culture
Birth of Anthropology
Migration of Erectus
2. Determining the success of a project
Modernization
Geerts
Diffusion
Evaluation research
3. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
culture
Fieldwork
Cultural Evolution
Radcliffe-Brown
4. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Caste
Cargo Cult
Chiefdom
Absolute time
5. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Migration of Erectus
Levi-Strauss
Mutation
6. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Neolithic Period
Symbol
Paleolithic period
Nistri periscope
7. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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8. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Neanderthals
Cargo Cult
Etic perspective
Phonology
9. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Egyptology
Culture
Nistri periscope
Allele frequency
10. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Genotypic Variations
Structural-functional
Olduvai Gorge
Hittites
11. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Real Culture
Agriculture
South American indians
Mutation
12. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Egypt
Feudal System
exogamy
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.
Substantive Economics
Legitimacy
State
Petrie
14. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Structural-functional
Birth of Anthropology
Genotype
Chiefdom
15. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Ritual
Bronze Age
Substantive Economics
Affinal kin
16. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Social Class Manifestation
Superposition
Etic perspective
Cargo Cult
17. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Catal Huyak
Cultural relativism
James George Frazer
18. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Cro-Magnon
Gene
Status
Hammurabi
19. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
pastoralism
classical archaeology
Ralph Lynton
Malinowski
20. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
American farming
Dokimasi
Cargo Cult
Feudal System
21. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
endogamy
Mauss
Nitrogenous Bases
Armchair Anthropologists
22. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Peking Man
Sapir-Whorf
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cargo Cult
23. 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]
Polygamy
Migration of Erectus
Franz Boas
Peking Man
24. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Potlatch
Superposition
Religion
babylonians
25. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Fieldwork
Stratigraphy
Cargo Cult
Levirate
26. (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
Cultural Resource Assessment
Mesolithic Period
Genotypic Variations
Austrailia indians
27. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Band
Margaret Mead
Genotype
Phonetics
28. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Ethnology
platyrrhini
Migration of Erectus
Pacific indians
29. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Kluckhohn
Monarchy
DNA
Family of procreation
30. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
Homonids
Policy Research
Semantics
31. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
African Economic Organization
Cargo Cult
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Anthropology
32. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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33. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Geosphere
Yanomamo Feasting
husbandry
Barbarism
34. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Anthropoids
Unilineal Descent
35. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Greeks
Relative time
Conspicuous Consumption
Benedict
36. Traces back to ONE person
Social impact assessment
Geerts
Lineage
Anthropometry
37. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Linguistics
Adaptation
Animism
Hebrews
38. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Taboo
Olduvai Gorge
Fieldwork
Mary Douglas Leakey
39. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Condensed Symbol
Dokimasi
Class
Tributary Production
40. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Genpuku
phenotype
polished stone
41. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Anthropology
New World monkeys
sharp edges
American farming
42. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Market Exchange
Homonids
Middle east farming
Animal domestication
43. Spread of something from one group to another
Cultural Evolution
Moieties
Religion
Diffusion
44. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Shaman
Franz Boas
African Economic Organization
carbon-14 dating
45. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Anthropometry
Totem
Cargo Cult
46. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
American farming
Superposition
Phases of rituals
Levy-Bruhl
47. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Phratry
Alternatives
mana
48. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
North American Indians
Margaret Mead
Cognatic Descent
49. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Stratigraphy
Ziggurat
Genpuku
Cargo Cult
50. 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
Morphology
Universalities
Qualitative Research