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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
classical archaeology
Pragmatics
Neolithic Technology
Cultural Evolution
2. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Malinowski
Pacific indians
Cargo Cult
endogamy
3. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Biosphere
Nistri periscope
Ethnocentrism
Ritual
4. (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
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Bands & Tribes
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Mesolithic Period
5. 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)
Bands & Tribes
Emic perspective
Assyrians
Phratry
6. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Homo Erectus
Linguistics
Cargo Cult
Chiefdom
7. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
South American indians
Social practices
Assyrians
mana
8. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
culture
Syntax
Genetic drift
Myth
9. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Sumerians
Sondages
Ethnography
Levirate
10. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Greeks
Market Exchange
Functionalism
3 types of excavation
11. 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
Symbol
Potlatch
Applied Anthropology
gene flow
12. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Levy-Bruhl
Savagery
Phonology
Olduvai Gorge
13. Invented smelting of iron
Gene
Hittites
Pragmatics
Cargo Cult
14. Thinkers: linguistics
Qualitative Research
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Real Culture
polished stone
15. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Functionalism
International Development
endogamy
Hammurabi
16. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Franz Boas
Quantitative Research
Genotype
Excavation
17. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
Neanderthals
Allele
Allele frequency
Egyptology
18. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Armchair Anthropologists
Levirate
Sapir-Whorf
Mayan indians
19. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
gene flow
Hittites
Chromosome
Diffusion
20. 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
Magnetic prospecting
Substantive Economics
Margaret Mead
Revitalization
21. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Cultural Ecology
carbon-14 dating
Neanderthals
Status
22. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Levy-Bruhl
prosimians
Kindred
Policy Research
23. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
culture
Migration of Erectus
Crossing over
Caste
24. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Civilization
Benedict
Etic perspective
carbon-14 dating
25. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Alternatives
homonoids
Yanomamo Feasting
Chromosome
26. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Functionalism
Qualitative Research
Elsie Parsons
State
27. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Asian farming
Cro-Magnon
Quantitative Research
Biosphere
28. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Ethnocentrism
Polygamy
Levi-Strauss
Pacific indians
29. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Asian farming
Unilineal Descent
Revitalization
Genetic Recombination
30. 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
Universalities
Mary Douglas Leakey
Syntax
31. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Status
Status
Universalities
Phonology
32. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Referencial Symbol
Mesopotamia
Cargo Cult
Mutation
33. Determining the success of a project
Genotypic Variations
Potlatch
Cultural Resource Assessment
Evaluation research
34. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Bronze Age
Neanderthals
Religion
Functionalism
35. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Greeks
Horticulture
Religion
Mutagen
36. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Noosphere
Excavation
husbandry
primates
37. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Revitalization
Anthropology
Kindred
African Economic Organization
38. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Pacific indians
Taboo
Alternatives
radiometric dating
39. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
Franz Boas
culture
Australopithecus
40. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Stratigraphy
Adaptation
carbon-14 dating
Monogamy
41. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Theory of organic evolution
Cro-Magnon
Morphology
42. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Mythology
Peking Man
Divorce
Ethnography
43. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Matrilineal Descent
Social practices
Catal Huyak
Leakey family
44. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Homo Erectus
Franz Boas
Unilineal Descent
Conspicuous Consumption
45. Shorthand - Morse Code
Band
Kindred
Animism
Condensed Symbol
46. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Nitrogenous Bases
prosimians
Cultural Resource Assessment
European farming
47. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Cultural Ecology
Levy-Bruhl
sharp edges
Gene migration
48. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)
Barbarism
Social Darwinism
Yanomamo
polyandry
49. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Unilineal Descent
Reciprocity
carbon-14 dating
Horticulture
50. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Physical Anthropology
Genotype
Myth
polished stone