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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Dokimasi
Absolute time
Referencial Symbol
Real Culture
2. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Mutagen
Shaman
Greeks
Cross-cousins
3. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
Survival
Etic perspective
prosimians
4. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Cultivation
Market Exchange
Asian farming
Levi-Strauss
5. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Kindred
Ideal culture
Cargo Cult
Applied Anthropology
6. 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
Genetic drift
Armchair Anthropologists
Taboo
7. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Emic perspective
Shaman
Nitrogenous Bases
8. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Polygamy
Tribe
Catal Huyak
Kroeber
9. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Elsie Parsons
Matrilineal Descent
Monarchy
Emile Durkheim
10. 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.
Lower Paleo Period
Cultural Evolution
Modernization
Java Man
11. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Real Culture
Redistribution
Status
Noosphere
12. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Geosphere
Electromagnetic prospecting
Natural selection
Pragmatics
13. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Market Exchange
Etic perspective
WG Rivers
Structuralism
14. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Phratry
Mesolithic Period
Taboo
Relative time
15. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
babylonians
Yanomamo
radiometric dating
Africa
16. 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'
Technology development research
Homo Habilis
Schliemann
Mendel's first principle of genetics
17. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
State
Egyptology
Animism
Central American indians
18. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
DNA
Divorce
Hammurabi
Mendelian population
19. 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)
Yanomamo
Chiefdom
Tributary Production
Malinowski
20. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Referencial Symbol
Middle Paleo Period
Moieties
Non-warlike people
21. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Kinship
Excavation
primates
Nuclear Family
22. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Homo Erectus
Modernization
Electromagnetic prospecting
DNA
23. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Nitrogenous Bases
KhoiKhoi
Sapir-Whorf
24. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Conspicuous Consumption
EB Tylor
Civilization
Emic perspective
25. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Cultural relativism
Relative time
EB Tylor
26. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
radiometric dating
Horticulture
Mary Douglas Leakey
Ritual
27. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Homo Erectus
Geerts
Pragmatics
Sondages
28. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Electromagnetic prospecting
DNA
McLennan
Ritual
29. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Rite of passage
Egyptology
International Development
Status
30. 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.
Weber
Negative Reciprocity
Cultural Anthropology
Quinceanera
31. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
pastoralism
Egyptian diffusion
Chromosome
platyrrhini
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)
Phratry
Market Exchange
Phonology
Greeks
33. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Industrialization
Adaptation
prehistoric archaeology
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
34. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Stratigraphy
Culture
Animism
Catal Huyak
35. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Emile Durkheim
Condensed Symbol
Mary Douglas Leakey
Non-warlike people
36. 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)
Poy Tang Lon
Semantics
Mythology
Assyrians
37. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Electromagnetic prospecting
Family of procreation
Austrailia indians
Dead Sea scrolls
38. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Social Class Manifestation
Evaluation research
Referencial Symbol
39. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Cultural Ecology
Divorce
Etic perspective
Animal domestication
40. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Dokimasi
Horticulture
Kroeber
Rite of passage
41. 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 Habilis
Peking Man
Ziggurat
Legitimacy
42. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Stratigraphy
Nitrogenous Bases
mana
Mendelian population
43. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Neolithic Period
Redistribution
Condensed Symbol
Homo Habilis
44. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
3 types of excavation
Peking Man
DNA
Mesopotamia
45. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Status
Agriculture
Conspicuous Consumption
Ritual
46. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Social Class Manifestation
Allele frequency
Homo Habilis
47. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
pastoralism
Australopithecus
Mutation
Sanction
48. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Cargo Cult
DNA
Chiefdom
Biosphere
49. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Mesopotamia
Diffusion
Ralph Lynton
Geophysical prospecting
50. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Family of orientation
Rite of passage
Social practices
Stimulus Diffusion
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