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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Homo Habilis
Levi-Strauss
Archaeology
Modernization
2. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Armchair Anthropologists
Diffusion
Australopithecus
Status
3. 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]
Industrialization
Franz Boas
Cargo Cult
Ritual
4. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
mana
Ethnocentrism
Olduvai Gorge
Yanomamo
5. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Biosphere
Australopithecus
Social Class Manifestation
6. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Levy-Bruhl
New World monkeys
Mutagen
Family of procreation
7. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Gene pool
Magnetic prospecting
Allele frequency
Mauss
8. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Theory of organic evolution
Natural selection
Nitrogenous Bases
9. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Revitalization
Unilineal Descent
Levy-Bruhl
Mendel's third principle of genetics
10. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Religion
Neolithic Technology
Potlatch
primates
11. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Emile Durkheim
Aztec indians
Mutagen
Bronze Age
12. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Natural selection
McLennan
gene flow
Mendelian population
13. Relatives through marriage
Homo Erectus
Unit of Kinship
Egypt
Affinal kin
14. Thinkers: linguistics
Pragmatics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cargo Cult
Clan
15. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
Horticulture
State
exogamy
16. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Excavation
Sapir-Whorf
babylonians
Structural-functional
17. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Pragmatics
Central American indians
Phonetics
Egypt
18. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Genotype
Kroeber
Family of orientation
Agriculture
19. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
James George Frazer
Margaret Mead
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Semantics
20. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Ethnology
Condensed Symbol
Kinship
Legitimacy
21. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
Theory of organic evolution
Cargo Cult
Phases of rituals
22. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Central American indians
New World monkeys
Gene migration
Birth of Anthropology
23. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Homonids
endogamy
Mythology
Chiefdom
24. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Peking Man
Totem
Matrilineal Descent
25. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
polyandry
Revitalization
Kluckhohn
Levi-Strauss
26. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
chimpanzee
Cultural Evolution
Semantics
Malinowski
27. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
babylonians
polished stone
War
Pragmatics
28. 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
old world monkeys
Lower Paleo Period
Modernization
Formal Economics
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)
prosimians
Hebrews
Egyptology
Divorce
30. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Pragmatics
Status
Alternatives
Noosphere
31. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Market Exchange
phenotype
Gens
Real Culture
32. 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.
Cultural Ecology
Paleolithic period
Writing
Negative Reciprocity
33. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
South American indians
Greeks
Animal domestication
North American Indians
34. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Adaptation
Savagery
Religion
Hebrews
35. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
sharp edges
Neolithic Technology
Non-warlike people
Catal Huyak
36. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Etic perspective
Africa
Sanction
Phonology
37. Determining the success of a project
DNA
Levirate
Diffusion
Evaluation research
38. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
DNA
Bands & Tribes
Java Man
Crossing over
39. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Homo Habilis
African Economic Organization
Homo Erectus
Theory of organic evolution
40. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Chromosome
Franz Boas
WG Rivers
Mayan indians
41. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Weber
Ziggurat
Class
chimpanzee
42. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Mesolithic Period
Mutagen
Nitrogenous Bases
43. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Unilineal Descent
Class
Myth
Reciprocity
44. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Anthropoids
Emile Durkheim
Pacific indians
Conspicuous Consumption
45. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Family of procreation
Barbarism
International Development
Chromosome
46. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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47. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Quantitative Research
Phratry
Formal Economics
Caste
48. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Feudal System
Quinceanera
endogamy
Industrialization
49. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Structural-functional
Mayan indians
North American Indians
endogamy
50. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cognatic Descent
Sumerians
WG Rivers
Levirate