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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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.
Survival
Cultural Evolution
Condensed Symbol
South American indians
2. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
babylonians
Cargo Cult
Stimulus Diffusion
3. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Taboo
Homonids
Egypt
Mendel's third principle of genetics
4. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Policy Research
Levi-Strauss
Allele frequency
Absolute time
5. Invented smelting of iron
Hittites
American farming
Affinal kin
Mayan indians
6. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Dating methods
Nitrogenous Bases
Petrie
Levy-Bruhl
7. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Kluckhohn
Franz Boas
Totem
Polygamy
8. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Phonology
Asian farming
Matrilineal Descent
Birth of Anthropology
9. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Poy Tang Lon
Ethnology
Diffusion
Cargo Cult
10. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Family of orientation
Neolithic Technology
Clan
Kindred
11. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Chiefdom
Lower Paleo Period
Gene
Religion
12. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Unilineal Descent
pastoralism
Etic perspective
Theory of organic evolution
13. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Referencial Symbol
Olduvai Gorge
platyrrhini
Specialities
14. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Crossing over
Stratigraphy
perforated edges
Chiefdom
15. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Cultivation
Ethnocentrism
Writing
Mutation
16. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Neolithic Period
Armchair Anthropologists
Gene migration
3 types of excavation
17. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Gene migration
McLennan
Australopithecus
pastoralism
18. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Savagery
McLennan
Sapir-Whorf
Assyrians
19. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
platyrrhini
Status
Dating methods
Magnetic prospecting
20. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Formal Economics
polyandry
State
Industrialization
21. 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]
Franz Boas
Yanomamo
Sumerians
Affinal kin
22. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Warlike people
Universalities
Phonetics
Technology development research
23. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Africa
Central American indians
James George Frazer
Hunter/Gatherers
24. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Schliemann
Dokimasi
European farming
KhoiKhoi
25. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Market Exchange
Savagery
Mauss
perforated edges
26. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Cargo Cult
Australopithecus
Superposition
pastoralism
27. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Malinowski
Egyptian diffusion
Bronze Age
Band
28. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Social Darwinism
Reciprocity
Asian farming
Status
29. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Adaptation
carbon-14 dating
primates
Homo Erectus
30. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Alternatives
Emic perspective
prosimians
Rite of passage
31. 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.
Structuralism
New World monkeys
Negative Reciprocity
Crossing over
32. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
3 types of excavation
Elsie Parsons
Phonology
husbandry
33. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
North American Indians
Symbol
Family of procreation
Hammurabi
34. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Lower Paleo Period
Syntax
Asian farming
Magnetic prospecting
35. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Catal Huyak
Formal Economics
Poy Tang Lon
Anthropology
36. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
phenotype
Adaptation
Emile Durkheim
Linguistics
37. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
International Development
New World monkeys
Peking Man
Condensed Symbol
38. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Peking Man
Cultural Anthropology
primates
Policy Research
39. 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)
classical archaeology
Social Darwinism
Barbarism
Agriculture
40. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Social impact assessment
Clan
Mutation
Gene pool
41. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
Nitrogenous Bases
Taboo
husbandry
42. 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.
Egyptology
Armchair Anthropologists
Cultural relativism
polyandry
43. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Cultural Evolution
Levy-Bruhl
Crossing over
carbon-14 dating
44. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
gene flow
Sapir-Whorf
Diffusion
Horticulture
45. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
Moieties
Cargo Cult
Survival
46. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Poy Tang Lon
Genetic drift
platyrrhini
Pragmatics
47. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Allele
Elsie Parsons
Structuralism
Social impact assessment
48. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Shaman
Cultural Anthropology
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Semantics
49. Spread of something from one group to another
Substantive Economics
Revitalization
husbandry
Diffusion
50. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Social Darwinism
Mendel's second principle of genetics
phenotype
War