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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Allele frequency
Totem
Pragmatics
Dead Sea scrolls
2. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Substantive Economics
Conspicuous Consumption
Noosphere
Social practices
3. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Barbarism
Cross-cousins
Tribe
Olduvai Gorge
4. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Stimulus Diffusion
Geosphere
Diffusion
prosimians
5. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Legitimacy
Evaluation research
Middle Paleo Period
Mutagen
6. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Leakey family
European farming
Neanderthals
Linguistics
7. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Emile Durkheim
Technology development research
Pragmatics
8. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Phratry
Revitalization
Structural-functional
sharp edges
9. Thinkers: linguistics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Upper Paleo period
Phonology
Modernization
10. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
babylonians
James George Frazer
Savagery
sharp edges
11. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Radcliffe-Brown
Levi-Strauss
Industrialization
Austrailia indians
12. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Theory of organic evolution
Kinship
James George Frazer
13. 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..
Cargo Cult
Relative time
Dead Sea scrolls
Gene pool
14. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Savagery
Social practices
Symbol
Family of procreation
15. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Conspicuous Consumption
Mayan indians
Anthropometry
Elsie Parsons
16. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
Animism
Egyptology
sharp edges
Symbol
17. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
chimpanzee
Homo Habilis
Paleolithic period
Writing
18. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
babylonians
Chiefdom
Kluckhohn
Family of procreation
19. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Genetic Recombination
Fieldwork
Gene pool
Redistribution
20. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Australopithecus
primates
perforated edges
Ideal culture
21. 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
Caste
Austrailia indians
Levy-Bruhl
22. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Horticulture
EB Tylor
Kroeber
Olduvai Gorge
23. Traces back to ONE person
Industrialization
Magnetic prospecting
Anthropoids
Lineage
24. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Unit of Kinship
Absolute time
Warlike people
perforated edges
25. Things all people do the same way (language)
Reciprocity
Benedict
Universalities
Africa
26. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Kluckhohn
Polygamy
Applied Anthropology
Directed Cultural Change
27. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Electromagnetic prospecting
pastoralism
Phonology
Gene
28. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
exogamy
Archaeology
Kinship
Cargo Cult
29. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Gene migration
African Economic Organization
Feudal System
Functionalism
30. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Individual Peculiarities
Pragmatics
Band
Gens
31. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Alternatives
Absolute time
Animism
radiometric dating
32. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
Geerts
Balanced Reciprocity
primates
33. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Franz Boas
Hebrews
Diffusion
State
34. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Formal Economics
endogamy
homonoids
McLennan
35. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Dead Sea scrolls
Class
Unilineal Descent
Syntax
36. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Phratry
Genpuku
platyrrhini
Referencial Symbol
37. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Policy Research
Substantive Economics
Phonetics
Mendel's first principle of genetics
38. 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
Alternatives
Central American indians
Anthropology
39. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Culture
Policy Research
mana
40. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Survival
Natural selection
Levi-Strauss
Hunter/Gatherers
41. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Middle east farming
old world monkeys
Alternatives
Pragmatics
42. <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
Clan
Writing
Geophysical prospecting
Upper Paleo period
43. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Sanction
Legitimacy
Schliemann
Geosphere
44. Family that raised you
exogamy
Family of orientation
Culture
Totem
45. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Genotypic Variations
Mayan indians
Cargo Cult
Cultural relativism
46. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Rite of passage
Survival
Diffusion
Legitimacy
47. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Asian farming
Clan
New World monkeys
Shaman
48. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Levirate
Social impact assessment
Sanction
Genotypic Variations
49. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
mana
Totem
State
Birth of Anthropology
50. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Allele
Yanomamo Feasting
Negative Reciprocity
Phases of rituals