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DSST General Anthropology
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1. (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
Ritual
Mesolithic Period
Egyptology
Nuclear Family
2. 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
Universalities
International Development
Substantive Economics
Referencial Symbol
3. 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.
Noosphere
Hittites
prehistoric archaeology
Structuralism
4. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Homonids
Family of procreation
Taboo
old world monkeys
5. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Ritual
Petrie
Religion
Ethnology
6. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
Barbarism
Stimulus Diffusion
Totem
7. Spread of something from one group to another
Geerts
Diffusion
Gens
Mendel's third principle of genetics
8. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Mendelian population
Geophysical prospecting
Horticulture
prehistoric archaeology
9. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Archaeology
classical archaeology
Potlatch
10. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Moieties
Chiefdom
Monogamy
Referencial Symbol
11. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Dokimasi
Genpuku
Gene pool
Quantitative Research
12. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
carbon-14 dating
Cultural Evolution
Excavation
Gene pool
13. 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)
Taboo
James George Frazer
Absolute time
Malinowski
14. 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
Quinceanera
Myth
Neanderthals
Cultural Resource Assessment
15. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.
prehistoric archaeology
Absolute time
Semantics
polyandry
16. Family that raised you
Writing
Dokimasi
Family of orientation
Cultural Evolution
17. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Gene
Potlatch
Allele
Directed Cultural Change
18. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Industrialization
Levirate
Horticulture
gene flow
19. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Agriculture
Quantitative Research
Nistri periscope
Middle Paleo Period
20. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Peking Man
Quantitative Research
KhoiKhoi
Semantics
21. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Middle Paleo Period
Non-warlike people
Alternatives
Referencial Symbol
22. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Warlike people
Margaret Mead
Genetic drift
Physical Anthropology
23. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Gene migration
Social Darwinism
Pacific indians
24. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Social Darwinism
New World monkeys
Evaluation research
Quinceanera
25. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Kinship
Caste
Anthropoids
Nitrogenous Bases
26. (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
Applied Anthropology
Animism
Stratigraphy
phenotype
27. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Gene
Sanction
Band
Functionalism
28. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Shaman
classical archaeology
Warlike people
Legitimacy
29. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Condensed Symbol
endogamy
Tribe
Taboo
30. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
European farming
Specialities
Civilization
Chromosome
31. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Ideal culture
Individual Peculiarities
WG Rivers
Functionalism
32. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Specialities
Cognatic Descent
Myth
Hunter/Gatherers
33. Ways to date artifacts
Austrailia indians
Morphology
Clan
Dating methods
34. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Cultural Anthropology
Policy Research
Religion
Ethnography
35. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Status
Cargo Cult
Legitimacy
Pragmatics
36. Thinkers: linguistics
Phonology
prosimians
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Syntax
37. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
North American Indians
Etic perspective
Chiefdom
Condensed Symbol
38. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Culture
European farming
Birth of Anthropology
Writing
39. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Sapir-Whorf
Gene migration
Middle east farming
Writing
40. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Shaman
Homo Erectus
Bronze Age
Agriculture
41. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
chimpanzee
Writing
Malinowski
Allele frequency
42. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Archaeology
Benedict
Superposition
Redistribution
43. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Magnetic prospecting
Fieldwork
Stimulus Diffusion
Mendel's third principle of genetics
44. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Egypt
Anthropology
Band
45. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Relative time
Barbarism
Cro-Magnon
Real Culture
46. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
radiometric dating
Ritual
Biosphere
Yanomamo Feasting
47. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Gens
carbon-14 dating
chimpanzee
Cultural relativism
48. Holistic study of humanity.
Ziggurat
Anthropology
Absolute time
Asian farming
49. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Tributary Production
Nuclear Family
Sapir-Whorf
Gene migration
50. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Sapir-Whorf
Emile Durkheim
New World monkeys
Levirate