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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Anthropoids
Geerts
Crossing over
Policy Research
2. Thinkers: linguistics
Family of orientation
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cargo Cult
Hebrews
3. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Substantive Economics
Formal Economics
State
Ideal culture
4. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Levy-Bruhl
classical archaeology
Etic perspective
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
5. 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
Cultivation
Genotypic Variations
Redistribution
Functionalism
6. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Australopithecus
Linguistics
Poy Tang Lon
Margaret Mead
7. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
endogamy
Monarchy
Leakey family
Sapir-Whorf
8. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Revitalization
Sumerians
Gens
Africa
9. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Neolithic Period
Australopithecus
Ziggurat
Rite of passage
10. 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
Benedict
carbon-14 dating
Peking Man
Polygamy
11. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Allele frequency
Survival
War
Migration of Erectus
12. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Universalities
Diffusion
Middle Paleo Period
Yanomamo
13. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Myth
Moieties
Leakey family
Mutagen
14. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Animism
Stimulus Diffusion
Balanced Reciprocity
Adaptation
15. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Anthropology
Cargo Cult
Cultural Resource Assessment
Genpuku
16. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Formal Economics
Cognatic Descent
Adaptation
Nitrogenous Bases
17. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Archaeology
Substantive Economics
Levi-Strauss
Production
18. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Ethnocentrism
Monogamy
Quantitative Research
Animal domestication
19. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Non-warlike people
Mesolithic Period
Phratry
Egyptology
20. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Genotypic Variations
Culture
State
Pragmatics
21. 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.
Natural selection
prosimians
exogamy
Phases of rituals
22. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Applied Anthropology
Radcliffe-Brown
Unilineal Descent
Production
23. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Genotype
Relative time
Homo Erectus
24. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Leakey family
Horticulture
Petrie
Totem
25. 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.
Allele frequency
Structuralism
Radcliffe-Brown
Directed Cultural Change
26. 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).
Unit of Kinship
Kluckhohn
endogamy
Structural-functional
27. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Mutagen
Genetic drift
Sondages
3 types of excavation
28. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)
Mayan indians
Social Darwinism
Genotypic Variations
Superposition
29. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Evaluation research
Mutation
Poy Tang Lon
Chromosome
30. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Cross-cousins
Gens
New World monkeys
Genotype
31. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Social Darwinism
husbandry
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Caste
32. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Linguistics
Conspicuous Consumption
Natural selection
African Economic Organization
33. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Peking Man
Kluckhohn
Petrie
34. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.
Anthropoids
Balanced Reciprocity
prehistoric archaeology
Yanomamo Feasting
35. 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
Lower Paleo Period
Stratigraphy
International Development
sharp edges
36. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Unilineal Descent
Band
James George Frazer
Sapir-Whorf
37. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Religion
culture
Sapir-Whorf
African Economic Organization
38. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Allele
Asian farming
primates
39. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Shaman
Mythology
Civilization
Franz Boas
40. (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
Revitalization
Band
Animism
classical archaeology
41. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
gene flow
Cross-cousins
3 types of excavation
Bands & Tribes
42. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Survival
Greeks
Kindred
Birth of Anthropology
43. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
homonoids
Genpuku
Referencial Symbol
polyandry
44. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Kindred
Writing
Cargo Cult
Chromosome
45. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
phenotype
Gens
Upper Paleo period
Emile Durkheim
46. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
Substantive Economics
Evaluation research
Levy-Bruhl
47. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Dokimasi
Monarchy
sharp edges
Individual Peculiarities
48. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Franz Boas
Unilineal Descent
Gene pool
mana
49. 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.
Levi-Strauss
State
Cultural Ecology
Revitalization
50. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
prehistoric archaeology
Asian farming
Diffusion
Neolithic Period