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DSST General Anthropology
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1. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Cargo Cult
perforated edges
Caste
Alternatives
2. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Theory of organic evolution
Mythology
Mesolithic Period
Levi-Strauss
3. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
American farming
Birth of Anthropology
Mendel's third principle of genetics
4. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Divorce
Conspicuous Consumption
Cargo Cult
Chiefdom
5. 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.
gene flow
Mendelian population
Negative Reciprocity
Formal Economics
6. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
Alternatives
Olduvai Gorge
culture
7. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Upper Paleo period
Franz Boas
primates
Mendel's first principle of genetics
8. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Semantics
Policy Research
Kluckhohn
Kindred
9. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Lineage
Rite of passage
Religion
Pacific indians
10. 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'
Nistri periscope
Homo Habilis
Ethnocentrism
Ethnography
11. 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
Emile Durkheim
Egypt
Middle Paleo Period
12. 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
radiometric dating
Egypt
Malinowski
Peking Man
13. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
endogamy
primates
Phonology
Dead Sea scrolls
14. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Social Darwinism
Austrailia indians
Cro-Magnon
Weber
15. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Universalities
Civilization
Adaptation
Cargo Cult
16. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Mutation
Production
Civilization
WG Rivers
17. 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)
Malinowski
Ritual
Physical Anthropology
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
18. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Dead Sea scrolls
Geosphere
Family of orientation
19. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Cultural Resource Assessment
Semantics
Mutagen
old world monkeys
20. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Matrilineal Descent
Rite of passage
WG Rivers
21. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Reciprocity
Taboo
Crossing over
Pragmatics
22. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Leakey family
Dating methods
Social Darwinism
Upper Paleo period
23. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
Phratry
endogamy
Central American indians
24. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Sapir-Whorf
Nitrogenous Bases
Religion
Yanomamo Feasting
25. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Applied Anthropology
Yanomamo
Cross-cousins
26. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
3 types of excavation
Mythology
Migration of Erectus
Mayan indians
27. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Anthropometry
Semantics
Java Man
Reciprocity
28. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Adaptation
Market Exchange
Religion
Fieldwork
29. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Genotype
Gene pool
homonoids
30. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Emic perspective
Structuralism
Egyptology
Geerts
31. Ways to date artifacts
Cultural Anthropology
Levirate
Dating methods
Cross-cousins
32. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Physical Anthropology
Substantive Economics
Cultural relativism
33. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Levirate
Olduvai Gorge
Geosphere
Clan
34. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Allele frequency
Gene migration
Homo Habilis
Potlatch
35. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Symbol
Middle east farming
Margaret Mead
Ziggurat
36. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
sharp edges
State
Condensed Symbol
Affinal kin
37. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Shaman
Ziggurat
Egyptology
Kroeber
38. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Allele
Intervention Anthropology
Leakey family
sharp edges
39. (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
Universalities
Modernization
Assyrians
Hunter/Gatherers
40. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Physical Anthropology
Hunter/Gatherers
Mary Douglas Leakey
Chiefdom
41. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Bronze Age
pastoralism
Levirate
Mayan indians
42. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Emile Durkheim
Social Darwinism
Condensed Symbol
Social practices
43. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Olduvai Gorge
Linguistics
International Development
Semantics
44. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Kroeber
Geophysical prospecting
Weber
DNA
45. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Margaret Mead
Animism
Individual Peculiarities
American farming
46. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Specialities
Matrilineal Descent
Barbarism
International Development
47. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Semantics
Affinal kin
Cro-Magnon
48. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Formal Economics
Bronze Age
Religion
primates
49. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Mauss
Functionalism
Emile Durkheim
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
50. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Genetic drift
African Economic Organization
Writing
Reciprocity