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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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2. 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.
Middle east farming
Homonids
Neolithic Technology
homonoids
3. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Malinowski
Generalized Reciprocity
Phonology
Dead Sea scrolls
4. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Religion
Yanomamo
Evaluation research
Warlike people
5. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Policy Research
Survival
Margaret Mead
Allele frequency
6. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Directed Cultural Change
European farming
Migration of Erectus
7. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
Mutation
Class
New World monkeys
8. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
platyrrhini
Universalities
Austrailia indians
Culture
9. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
phenotype
Crossing over
Syntax
Benedict
10. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Anthropoids
Referencial Symbol
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Unit of Kinship
11. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Bands & Tribes
McLennan
endogamy
Savagery
12. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Conspicuous Consumption
Taboo
Mythology
Pacific indians
13. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Stratigraphy
Upper Paleo period
Allele
Homo Habilis
14. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
James George Frazer
Greeks
Benedict
Homonids
15. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
phenotype
Cognatic Descent
Elsie Parsons
Relative time
16. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Lineage
Etic perspective
Yanomamo
Legitimacy
17. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Family of orientation
exogamy
Morphology
radiometric dating
18. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Hammurabi
Egyptology
Geosphere
Pragmatics
19. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
primates
Sapir-Whorf
Franz Boas
State
20. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
husbandry
Ralph Lynton
Dating methods
Neolithic Period
21. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Cargo Cult
Mendelian population
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Gene pool
22. 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
WG Rivers
Potlatch
Referencial Symbol
Kinship
23. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Africa
Cognatic Descent
DNA
Social Class Manifestation
24. (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
Cargo Cult
Animism
Weber
Individual Peculiarities
25. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Emic perspective
Anthropology
Egypt
26. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Shaman
European farming
Conspicuous Consumption
Austrailia indians
27. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Franz Boas
Social Darwinism
Theory of organic evolution
Peking Man
28. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Structural-functional
Peking Man
polished stone
Stratigraphy
29. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Benedict
Genpuku
Writing
Kinship
30. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Negative Reciprocity
Archaeology
Migration of Erectus
Qualitative Research
31. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Superposition
Birth of Anthropology
Industrialization
Polygamy
32. 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)
Gens
Phratry
KhoiKhoi
International Development
33. 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
Middle east farming
Hebrews
Allele
Kindred
34. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Moieties
classical archaeology
Ethnology
Monarchy
35. 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
Sanction
Geerts
Culture
Substantive Economics
36. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Adaptation
Gene migration
Warlike people
Real Culture
37. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Animism
Phases of rituals
DNA
Ethnography
38. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Asian farming
Geophysical prospecting
Hammurabi
Structural-functional
39. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
James George Frazer
Shaman
phenotype
Mayan indians
40. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
Animal domestication
Cultural Anthropology
Franz Boas
41. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Directed Cultural Change
Monogamy
Symbol
Genotypic Variations
42. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Hebrews
Structural-functional
Technology development research
Structuralism
43. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Levirate
Intervention Anthropology
Kroeber
Conspicuous Consumption
44. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Ethnography
Cognatic Descent
Animism
Alternatives
45. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Nuclear Family
Gene
Austrailia indians
Individual Peculiarities
46. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Schliemann
culture
Chiefdom
primates
47. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Anthropology
Mutagen
Catal Huyak
Cargo Cult
48. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Genetic drift
Sanction
Ideal culture
Leakey family
49. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Affinal kin
Mutagen
Mutation
Quantitative Research
50. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Unit of Kinship
old world monkeys
Adaptation