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DSST General Anthropology
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1. (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
Condensed Symbol
Genpuku
Radcliffe-Brown
Hunter/Gatherers
2. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Mendelian population
Horticulture
Cultivation
Kindred
3. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Potlatch
Cargo Cult
Barbarism
4. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Greeks
Sondages
Cultural Anthropology
Anthropoids
5. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
perforated edges
Franz Boas
Kroeber
Sumerians
6. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
State
Matrilineal Descent
Technology development research
Ralph Lynton
7. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Poy Tang Lon
Lineage
Leakey family
8. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Chiefdom
Greeks
Tributary Production
Kindred
9. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Mesopotamia
Nuclear Family
Sumerians
Bronze Age
10. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
WG Rivers
Levirate
Levy-Bruhl
Mesopotamia
11. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
Reciprocity
Semantics
Specialities
12. 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
Policy Research
Pragmatics
Physical Anthropology
13. 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
Neanderthals
Mary Douglas Leakey
Mauss
Potlatch
14. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Middle east farming
Cro-Magnon
Levy-Bruhl
Kluckhohn
15. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Franz Boas
Diffusion
Cultural Resource Assessment
Phonetics
16. 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)
culture
Divorce
Animism
Civilization
17. Family that raised you
Cultural Resource Assessment
Family of orientation
Neanderthals
Mendel's first principle of genetics
18. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
Syntax
3 types of excavation
Biosphere
19. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Policy Research
Neolithic Technology
Egyptian diffusion
radiometric dating
20. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
North American Indians
Diffusion
Syntax
Production
21. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Myth
Balanced Reciprocity
Writing
Biosphere
22. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Stimulus Diffusion
Theory of organic evolution
Ethnography
Homonids
23. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
classical archaeology
Symbol
Feudal System
Africa
24. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Hammurabi
Kroeber
Geerts
Schliemann
25. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Social Class Manifestation
Phonetics
Absolute time
Social practices
26. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
Intervention Anthropology
Social Class Manifestation
Yanomamo Feasting
27. 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.
Pragmatics
Structuralism
State
Natural selection
28. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Cargo Cult
Functionalism
Egyptology
Genetic drift
29. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Kluckhohn
Cro-Magnon
Family of procreation
prehistoric archaeology
30. Ways to date artifacts
Fieldwork
Migration of Erectus
Agriculture
Dating methods
31. 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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32. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
Class
babylonians
Assyrians
33. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Homo Erectus
Ritual
Status
Central American indians
34. 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
platyrrhini
Gene migration
Industrialization
Potlatch
35. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Formal Economics
Ethnography
Homo Erectus
Kluckhohn
36. 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
Family of orientation
Ideal culture
Family of procreation
37. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
South American indians
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Margaret Mead
38. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Central American indians
Levirate
Cultural relativism
Cargo Cult
39. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge
Morphology
Middle east farming
Leakey family
40. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Caste
Geerts
Sanction
Leakey family
41. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Clan
Mendelian population
Petrie
Anthropometry
42. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Morphology
Agriculture
Linguistics
Mesopotamia
43. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Kroeber
Monogamy
International Development
Stratigraphy
44. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Family of orientation
Warlike people
Qualitative Research
45. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Pragmatics
WG Rivers
Myth
Shaman
46. Shorthand - Morse Code
Egyptian diffusion
Yanomamo
Universalities
Condensed Symbol
47. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Universalities
Ralph Lynton
Generalized Reciprocity
Shaman
48. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Feudal System
Monarchy
radiometric dating
Natural selection
49. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Mary Douglas Leakey
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Condensed Symbol
endogamy
50. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
Dead Sea scrolls
Schliemann
Pacific indians
old world monkeys
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