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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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]
Franz Boas
Hittites
Genetic Recombination
Phonology
2. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
American farming
Yanomamo
Hebrews
Sumerians
3. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Dead Sea scrolls
Civilization
Natural selection
4. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Emile Durkheim
Structural-functional
Gens
Intervention Anthropology
5. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
perforated edges
Phases of rituals
Radcliffe-Brown
Tribe
6. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Egyptology
Semantics
Survival
Levirate
7. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Phases of rituals
WG Rivers
Chiefdom
Homo Erectus
8. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Directed Cultural Change
Egyptian diffusion
Archaeology
Olduvai Gorge
9. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Animism
Levirate
Cultural Evolution
Specialities
10. <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
Upper Paleo period
Mythology
Middle east farming
Hebrews
11. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Geophysical prospecting
Shaman
chimpanzee
12. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Clan
Theory of organic evolution
Migration of Erectus
International Development
13. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Clan
Quantitative Research
Genetic Recombination
chimpanzee
14. 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.
Genotype
Armchair Anthropologists
Ethnography
Production
15. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Dating methods
Clan
Barbarism
Negative Reciprocity
16. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
classical archaeology
Geerts
Adaptation
17. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
primates
Middle Paleo Period
Migration of Erectus
Tributary Production
18. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Divorce
perforated edges
Catal Huyak
Polygamy
19. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Status
Shaman
Allele frequency
Geophysical prospecting
20. 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..
Warlike people
Structural-functional
Dead Sea scrolls
Referencial Symbol
21. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
WG Rivers
Moieties
Homo Erectus
Diffusion
22. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
prosimians
Dead Sea scrolls
Chiefdom
Social practices
23. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Neanderthals
Cargo Cult
3 types of excavation
Anthropology
24. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Emile Durkheim
Austrailia indians
Family of procreation
Mesopotamia
25. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Religion
Barbarism
Condensed Symbol
Real Culture
26. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Gene migration
Negative Reciprocity
prehistoric archaeology
Egypt
27. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Kindred
Chromosome
Tribe
Cultural Anthropology
28. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Adaptation
Cultural Anthropology
Genpuku
Phases of rituals
29. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Hunter/Gatherers
classical archaeology
Leakey family
Levy-Bruhl
30. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'
Homo Habilis
polished stone
Hunter/Gatherers
Taboo
31. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Elsie Parsons
Cultural Evolution
Allele frequency
Monarchy
32. (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
Homo Habilis
polished stone
Hunter/Gatherers
Birth of Anthropology
33. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Kindred
Australopithecus
Specialities
Greeks
34. 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.
Physical Anthropology
Structuralism
Fieldwork
Barbarism
35. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Feudal System
Animism
Paleolithic period
Homo Erectus
36. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Java Man
phenotype
Religion
Ethnology
37. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
DNA
husbandry
Bronze Age
gene flow
38. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Anthropoids
Matrilineal Descent
gene flow
prehistoric archaeology
39. 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.
Ideal culture
Levy-Bruhl
Anthropometry
Negative Reciprocity
40. 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.
Sapir-Whorf
Noosphere
Unilineal Descent
Margaret Mead
41. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Assyrians
Cultural Ecology
culture
North American Indians
42. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Theory of organic evolution
Dead Sea scrolls
Birth of Anthropology
43. Family that raised you
Genotypic Variations
Family of orientation
Mutagen
Emile Durkheim
44. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Emile Durkheim
Kinship
Aztec indians
Peking Man
45. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Moieties
Monogamy
Dead Sea scrolls
Cro-Magnon
46. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Agriculture
Sumerians
Ethnology
Gene migration
47. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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48. 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
Cultivation
Alternatives
Substantive Economics
Margaret Mead
49. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Conspicuous Consumption
Ralph Lynton
Adaptation
Neolithic Technology
50. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Austrailia indians
Qualitative Research
Malinowski
Central American indians