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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Divorce
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Kluckhohn
Theory of organic evolution
2. 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]
Affinal kin
Franz Boas
sharp edges
Biosphere
3. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Australopithecus
Morphology
Non-warlike people
Chromosome
4. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Armchair Anthropologists
Levy-Bruhl
exogamy
Mendelian population
5. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Hittites
Industrialization
Genotypic Variations
6. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Stratigraphy
mana
War
7. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Policy Research
South American indians
James George Frazer
EB Tylor
8. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
old world monkeys
Relative time
Anthropoids
homonoids
9. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Tributary Production
carbon-14 dating
Fieldwork
WG Rivers
10. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Radcliffe-Brown
sharp edges
Hebrews
DNA
11. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Theory of organic evolution
Weber
Linguistics
Archaeology
12. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Genpuku
Poy Tang Lon
Benedict
Family of orientation
13. Things all people do the same way (language)
Structuralism
sharp edges
Universalities
primates
14. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
Market Exchange
Rite of passage
Production
15. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Gene migration
Production
Divorce
Applied Anthropology
16. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Nistri periscope
culture
Anthropometry
Tributary Production
17. (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
Franz Boas
Industrialization
Ethnography
Animism
18. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Cultivation
Band
Non-warlike people
19. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Functionalism
gene flow
Gens
Asian farming
20. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Market Exchange
Ziggurat
Ethnocentrism
Neanderthals
21. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Condensed Symbol
3 types of excavation
pastoralism
Mutation
22. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Morphology
Nitrogenous Bases
Peking Man
Chiefdom
23. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Superposition
Mauss
polished stone
Shaman
24. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Class
Sanction
Kluckhohn
Unilineal Descent
25. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Kroeber
Genetic drift
Generalized Reciprocity
Etic perspective
26. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
endogamy
African Economic Organization
Petrie
James George Frazer
27. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
War
Dokimasi
carbon-14 dating
28. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
KhoiKhoi
Cargo Cult
Kluckhohn
Ralph Lynton
29. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Ralph Lynton
Balanced Reciprocity
Animism
Catal Huyak
30. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Cultural relativism
Diffusion
Chiefdom
prosimians
31. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Java Man
phenotype
Emile Durkheim
Bronze Age
32. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Symbol
Genetic Recombination
North American Indians
mana
33. 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
Genetic Recombination
Myth
Applied Anthropology
Unit of Kinship
34. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Animism
Sanction
Sumerians
James George Frazer
35. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
classical archaeology
American farming
Totem
Matrilineal Descent
36. 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)
Sumerians
Assyrians
Central American indians
Barbarism
37. Family that raised you
prehistoric archaeology
Catal Huyak
Sumerians
Family of orientation
38. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Warlike people
Rite of passage
Neolithic Period
39. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Dokimasi
Greeks
Upper Paleo period
Gene pool
40. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Qualitative Research
homonoids
Sumerians
Warlike people
41. 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
Levy-Bruhl
Middle east farming
Quantitative Research
42. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Mutagen
Functionalism
Africa
Negative Reciprocity
43. (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
Allele frequency
Technology development research
Hunter/Gatherers
Universalities
44. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Ritual
Negative Reciprocity
Benedict
Social Darwinism
45. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
Etic perspective
Symbol
Middle east farming
46. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Cargo Cult
Social Darwinism
Geophysical prospecting
Dokimasi
47. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Anthropoids
Individual Peculiarities
Noosphere
Qualitative Research
48. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
prosimians
Genotype
Natural selection
Adaptation
49. 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
Levi-Strauss
Genotypic Variations
Family of procreation
Mauss
50. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
exogamy
Levirate
Syntax
Balanced Reciprocity