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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Functionalism
Culture
Linguistics
2. 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).
Physical Anthropology
New World monkeys
Unit of Kinship
Geophysical prospecting
3. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Social impact assessment
Aztec indians
Allele frequency
Animal domestication
4. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Cargo Cult
EB Tylor
Paleolithic period
Birth of Anthropology
5. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Morphology
Cargo Cult
DNA
James George Frazer
6. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Egyptology
Religion
Kluckhohn
Cognatic Descent
7. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Specialities
Etic perspective
Anthropometry
Mesolithic Period
8. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Individual Peculiarities
Condensed Symbol
Technology development research
Ethnography
9. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Individual Peculiarities
Ethnography
Conspicuous Consumption
Polygamy
10. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
prehistoric archaeology
Totem
Stimulus Diffusion
Balanced Reciprocity
11. 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
Africa
Neanderthals
Real Culture
Levy-Bruhl
12. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Alternatives
endogamy
Biosphere
pastoralism
13. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Functionalism
Sapir-Whorf
Substantive Economics
Natural selection
14. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Cultivation
Lower Paleo Period
Allele
Geophysical prospecting
15. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Ethnography
Migration of Erectus
Cargo Cult
Pacific indians
16. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
pastoralism
Dokimasi
Quinceanera
Generalized Reciprocity
17. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
James George Frazer
Linguistics
Adaptation
Poy Tang Lon
18. 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
husbandry
Etic perspective
Unilineal Descent
19. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Formal Economics
Culture
Horticulture
Adaptation
20. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Ethnography
Diffusion
Linguistics
Superposition
21. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Genotypic Variations
Geosphere
Alternatives
Chiefdom
22. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Geophysical prospecting
Syntax
Physical Anthropology
Negative Reciprocity
23. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Animism
Directed Cultural Change
Paleolithic period
Phases of rituals
24. 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
Feudal System
Monogamy
Olduvai Gorge
25. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Family of procreation
State
Geophysical prospecting
Kluckhohn
26. 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
Barbarism
Social impact assessment
Fieldwork
27. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Asian farming
Anthropoids
Noosphere
American farming
28. 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)
Assyrians
Etic perspective
Allele
Diffusion
29. 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.
Crossing over
Religion
Cultural Evolution
Intervention Anthropology
30. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Barbarism
Cultural Ecology
Genpuku
Emic perspective
31. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Status
Family of orientation
Paleolithic period
prosimians
32. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Myth
Emile Durkheim
pastoralism
Mutation
33. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
EB Tylor
Religion
Monarchy
34. 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
Gene migration
Peking Man
Cultural Evolution
Rite of passage
35. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Bronze Age
Cognatic Descent
Hammurabi
Cultural Anthropology
36. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Structuralism
Monarchy
Egypt
Moieties
37. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Mayan indians
American farming
Levi-Strauss
radiometric dating
38. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Ethnocentrism
pastoralism
Negative Reciprocity
Egyptology
39. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
Redistribution
phenotype
Diffusion
40. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Alternatives
Schliemann
Elsie Parsons
Phonology
41. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Mutagen
Directed Cultural Change
Redistribution
Bands & Tribes
42. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Substantive Economics
EB Tylor
Absolute time
Bronze Age
43. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Generalized Reciprocity
Java Man
Mendel's third principle of genetics
African Economic Organization
44. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Ethnocentrism
Chiefdom
Noosphere
Social practices
45. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Leakey family
Yanomamo
Malinowski
Policy Research
46. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Reciprocity
Homonids
Cultural relativism
European farming
47. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Genetic drift
Emile Durkheim
Tributary Production
Excavation
48. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Cultivation
Adaptation
Relative time
Gene migration
49. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Margaret Mead
Upper Paleo period
exogamy
classical archaeology
50. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Mesopotamia
Elsie Parsons
War
North American Indians