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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Referencial Symbol
Physical Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf
Individual Peculiarities
2. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
polyandry
babylonians
Anthropoids
Margaret Mead
3. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
Bronze Age
homonoids
Cultural Anthropology
4. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Kinship
Syntax
Feudal System
Structuralism
5. Spread of something from one group to another
Diffusion
Chiefdom
polished stone
Reciprocity
6. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animal domestication
Electromagnetic prospecting
Ralph Lynton
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
7. 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.
Chiefdom
Physical Anthropology
Catal Huyak
Neanderthals
8. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Market Exchange
Mutation
Structural-functional
Conspicuous Consumption
9. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Class
perforated edges
Substantive Economics
Allele
10. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Cultural relativism
perforated edges
Barbarism
culture
11. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Absolute time
Syntax
KhoiKhoi
Weber
12. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
prosimians
Unit of Kinship
Diffusion
Ideal culture
13. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Lower Paleo Period
Anthropoids
mana
Syntax
14. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Natural selection
Phonetics
Pacific indians
Yanomamo Feasting
15. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Nistri periscope
Bands & Tribes
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Etic perspective
16. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
old world monkeys
husbandry
Syntax
polished stone
17. 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]
Diffusion
Neolithic Technology
Tributary Production
Franz Boas
18. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Bronze Age
James George Frazer
gene flow
Quinceanera
19. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Absolute time
perforated edges
Kroeber
Social impact assessment
20. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Middle east farming
Condensed Symbol
Allele frequency
Caste
21. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Adaptation
Band
Cultivation
Ralph Lynton
22. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Monarchy
Survival
Electromagnetic prospecting
Gene migration
23. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Levy-Bruhl
Mayan indians
Cultural Resource Assessment
Nistri periscope
24. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Gens
Family of procreation
Agriculture
WG Rivers
25. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
Neolithic Technology
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Barbarism
26. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
perforated edges
homonoids
Kindred
Natural selection
27. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Kroeber
Warlike people
James George Frazer
Egyptian diffusion
28. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Chromosome
Upper Paleo period
African Economic Organization
Legitimacy
29. 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.
Asian farming
Genetic drift
Armchair Anthropologists
Cargo Cult
30. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
prosimians
Social impact assessment
State
Cro-Magnon
31. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Noosphere
Kinship
Levirate
Middle east farming
32. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Modernization
Culture
Cross-cousins
Archaeology
33. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Specialities
Margaret Mead
Biosphere
Monarchy
34. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Genotype
Structuralism
Assyrians
35. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Ritual
Cultural Anthropology
Social Class Manifestation
WG Rivers
36. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Margaret Mead
Phases of rituals
Allele frequency
Chiefdom
37. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Cargo Cult
Individual Peculiarities
Cargo Cult
Warlike people
38. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Mutagen
Market Exchange
Caste
Sumerians
39. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Armchair Anthropologists
Levy-Bruhl
Status
Civilization
40. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Social Class Manifestation
Neolithic Technology
Mauss
Magnetic prospecting
41. 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)
Olduvai Gorge
Applied Anthropology
Malinowski
Ideal culture
42. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Morphology
Directed Cultural Change
Franz Boas
Generalized Reciprocity
43. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Balanced Reciprocity
Referencial Symbol
Genotypic Variations
Petrie
44. 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)
Status
Schliemann
Phratry
Alternatives
45. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Gens
International Development
Birth of Anthropology
Band
46. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Genotype
Greeks
Animism
Cultural Evolution
47. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
James George Frazer
Writing
Peking Man
Unit of Kinship
48. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Levy-Bruhl
KhoiKhoi
Moieties
Conspicuous Consumption
49. 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'
Social impact assessment
European farming
Cultural relativism
Homo Habilis
50. 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.
Balanced Reciprocity
Pacific indians
Weber
Structuralism