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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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
Redistribution
Phases of rituals
Agriculture
Central American indians
2. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
culture
Condensed Symbol
Barbarism
Africa
3. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Archaeology
Allele
Caste
Asian farming
4. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Relative time
Cargo Cult
Margaret Mead
Physical Anthropology
5. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Sanction
Referencial Symbol
American farming
Dating methods
6. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Adaptation
Peking Man
Legitimacy
Cognatic Descent
7. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Negative Reciprocity
Kroeber
Birth of Anthropology
North American Indians
8. Spread of something from one group to another
Java Man
Revitalization
Genotypic Variations
Diffusion
9. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Quantitative Research
primates
Australopithecus
Genpuku
10. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Agriculture
Negative Reciprocity
Chromosome
Middle east farming
11. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Archaeology
Kluckhohn
Leakey family
Stratigraphy
12. 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.
Universalities
Social Class Manifestation
Cultural Evolution
mana
13. Thinkers: linguistics
Pragmatics
platyrrhini
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
carbon-14 dating
14. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Cultural Anthropology
Etic perspective
Cro-Magnon
Anthropoids
15. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Dating methods
Bands & Tribes
Genpuku
Mauss
16. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Structuralism
Structural-functional
Redistribution
Peking Man
17. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Egypt
Theory of organic evolution
Monogamy
Dokimasi
18. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
Monarchy
Qualitative Research
Social impact assessment
19. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Animism
Phonology
Asian farming
Dating methods
20. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Religion
Phonetics
Nuclear Family
Birth of Anthropology
21. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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22. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Tributary Production
Linguistics
Semantics
Geerts
23. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
War
Radcliffe-Brown
Quinceanera
polished stone
24. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Generalized Reciprocity
Java Man
Mesolithic Period
Market Exchange
25. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Paleolithic period
Taboo
Australopithecus
Sumerians
26. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Genetic Recombination
Africa
Formal Economics
27. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Emile Durkheim
Quinceanera
Policy Research
Aztec indians
28. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
mana
Real Culture
Conspicuous Consumption
Phases of rituals
29. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Phonology
Conspicuous Consumption
Divorce
Pacific indians
30. Relatives through marriage
Modernization
Reciprocity
Kluckhohn
Affinal kin
31. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Culture
Policy Research
Mayan indians
African Economic Organization
32. Civilization to invent 'zero'
babylonians
Morphology
Myth
Linguistics
33. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Functionalism
Emic perspective
Writing
babylonians
34. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Physical Anthropology
Mary Douglas Leakey
Savagery
Anthropometry
35. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
husbandry
Social impact assessment
Substantive Economics
Mesolithic Period
36. 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'
Homo Habilis
Yanomamo Feasting
Survival
Ethnography
37. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Ziggurat
Natural selection
platyrrhini
Pragmatics
38. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Lineage
Benedict
Greeks
Cognatic Descent
39. 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
Legitimacy
Rite of passage
KhoiKhoi
Substantive Economics
40. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
Adaptation
Egyptology
Egyptian diffusion
41. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Alternatives
Gene
Asian farming
Ziggurat
42. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
sharp edges
Mesopotamia
Cultural Ecology
Franz Boas
43. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
classical archaeology
Band
Phratry
Crossing over
44. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Mutagen
3 types of excavation
International Development
Cargo Cult
45. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Substantive Economics
Functionalism
Phonology
Homo Erectus
46. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
James George Frazer
Levi-Strauss
mana
Conspicuous Consumption
47. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Birth of Anthropology
Family of procreation
sharp edges
Potlatch
48. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Migration of Erectus
Nuclear Family
Geosphere
prosimians
49. 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.
Absolute time
homonoids
Phonology
Chiefdom
50. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Family of procreation
Pragmatics
Middle Paleo Period
Paleolithic period