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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Moieties
Absolute time
Fieldwork
Status
2. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
3. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Genotypic Variations
classical archaeology
Mary Douglas Leakey
4. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Writing
Cultivation
EB Tylor
Geosphere
5. (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
gene flow
Animism
Australopithecus
Ziggurat
6. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Civilization
Fieldwork
Syntax
Geophysical prospecting
7. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Affinal kin
Taboo
International Development
Adaptation
8. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Cargo Cult
Electromagnetic prospecting
Conspicuous Consumption
Upper Paleo period
9. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Ethnology
Writing
Catal Huyak
Crossing over
10. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
culture
Peking Man
Margaret Mead
11. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
prehistoric archaeology
Allele frequency
Ritual
Magnetic prospecting
12. 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.
Sanction
Neanderthals
Mendel's first principle of genetics
homonoids
13. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
husbandry
Class
Paleolithic period
14. 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
Homo Erectus
Leakey family
Peking Man
Middle east farming
15. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Benedict
Intervention Anthropology
Ethnography
Levi-Strauss
16. 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
Religion
Middle east farming
Market Exchange
Cargo Cult
17. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Cultural Ecology
Assyrians
Intervention Anthropology
Mayan indians
18. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Homonids
Geerts
Egypt
South American indians
19. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Homo Habilis
Social Class Manifestation
Petrie
Levy-Bruhl
20. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
pastoralism
Benedict
Homo Habilis
Egyptology
21. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Gene
Levi-Strauss
Adaptation
War
22. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Adaptation
Ziggurat
Petrie
23. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Universalities
Unilineal Descent
Genotypic Variations
Bronze Age
24. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Tribe
phenotype
Phonetics
Caste
25. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Anthropology
Linguistics
Reciprocity
Armchair Anthropologists
26. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
International Development
Neolithic Technology
Warlike people
Gene migration
27. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Specialities
Modernization
Condensed Symbol
Legitimacy
28. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Lower Paleo Period
mana
Middle Paleo Period
sharp edges
29. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Middle east farming
Phratry
Magnetic prospecting
Egyptian diffusion
30. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Individual Peculiarities
State
Mesolithic Period
Hunter/Gatherers
31. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Stimulus Diffusion
Crossing over
Ethnocentrism
Hammurabi
32. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Quantitative Research
Yanomamo Feasting
Olduvai Gorge
Survival
33. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Warlike people
Generalized Reciprocity
Franz Boas
Survival
34. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
KhoiKhoi
Clan
Cargo Cult
Levirate
35. Relatives through marriage
exogamy
Affinal kin
Nuclear Family
Assyrians
36. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Yanomamo Feasting
Culture
Theory of organic evolution
pastoralism
37. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Religion
Physical Anthropology
Social practices
Birth of Anthropology
38. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Natural selection
Neolithic Technology
Cargo Cult
Upper Paleo period
39. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Homo Erectus
Shaman
old world monkeys
Functionalism
40. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Diffusion
Feudal System
Egyptian diffusion
New World monkeys
41. Civilization to invent 'zero'
babylonians
American farming
Cargo Cult
Non-warlike people
42. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Quantitative Research
Kinship
Redistribution
Evaluation research
43. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Social impact assessment
Matrilineal Descent
Mauss
Elsie Parsons
44. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Kindred
sharp edges
husbandry
Pragmatics
45. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
African Economic Organization
Levirate
Warlike people
International Development
46. Shorthand - Morse Code
Qualitative Research
Condensed Symbol
Syntax
Culture
47. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Potlatch
prehistoric archaeology
Cargo Cult
Sapir-Whorf
48. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Magnetic prospecting
Condensed Symbol
Chiefdom
Fieldwork
49. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Survival
Bronze Age
Theory of organic evolution
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
50. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Myth
exogamy
3 types of excavation
Barbarism