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DSST General Anthropology
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1. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Tribe
Kroeber
Phonetics
culture
2. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Olduvai Gorge
Neanderthals
Electromagnetic prospecting
3. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Cultural Evolution
Central American indians
Homonids
Horticulture
4. 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.
Archaeology
Asian farming
Negative Reciprocity
Olduvai Gorge
5. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Religion
Austrailia indians
Phonology
endogamy
6. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
polyandry
Adaptation
KhoiKhoi
Ritual
7. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Pacific indians
pastoralism
Cargo Cult
Schliemann
8. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Emic perspective
Stimulus Diffusion
Monogamy
Class
9. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Middle Paleo Period
Theory of organic evolution
Morphology
Hittites
10. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Sondages
Genpuku
Ziggurat
Formal Economics
11. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Nuclear Family
Middle Paleo Period
Ethnocentrism
Family of procreation
12. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Levi-Strauss
Social practices
Lineage
Real Culture
13. 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).
South American indians
prehistoric archaeology
Electromagnetic prospecting
Unit of Kinship
14. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Nistri periscope
Geerts
Gene pool
Homo Habilis
15. 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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16. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Sondages
Genotypic Variations
Benedict
17. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Formal Economics
Genetic drift
Radcliffe-Brown
International Development
18. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Yanomamo Feasting
Diffusion
Benedict
Religion
19. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Kindred
Family of procreation
Allele
Directed Cultural Change
20. 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)
Austrailia indians
Malinowski
Allele
Status
21. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
phenotype
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Applied Anthropology
Hebrews
22. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Monarchy
exogamy
Gene migration
Structural-functional
23. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Kroeber
Excavation
Alternatives
Yanomamo
24. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Hebrews
Relative time
Allele
James George Frazer
25. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
carbon-14 dating
husbandry
Mendel's second principle of genetics
26. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
mana
Greeks
platyrrhini
Social impact assessment
27. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Homo Habilis
Sanction
Mary Douglas Leakey
Hittites
28. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Family of orientation
Lower Paleo Period
Cultural Evolution
Excavation
29. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Lineage
American farming
Modernization
Matrilineal Descent
30. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Crossing over
Monarchy
Neolithic Technology
Magnetic prospecting
31. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Divorce
Status
chimpanzee
Mythology
32. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Superposition
sharp edges
Gens
Kinship
33. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Revitalization
Religion
Nistri periscope
Shaman
34. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Elsie Parsons
Mayan indians
Malinowski
35. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Peking Man
Totem
Allele
Social Darwinism
36. 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
Malinowski
Genotypic Variations
Egypt
Potlatch
37. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Birth of Anthropology
WG Rivers
Aztec indians
old world monkeys
38. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Status
Class
Functionalism
Affinal kin
39. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Reciprocity
Africa
pastoralism
Social Darwinism
40. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Clan
Excavation
Policy Research
Relative time
41. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Mythology
James George Frazer
Levy-Bruhl
Egyptian diffusion
42. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Magnetic prospecting
Pragmatics
African Economic Organization
43. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Mayan indians
Cultural Evolution
Non-warlike people
Universalities
44. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
babylonians
Referencial Symbol
Pragmatics
Myth
45. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Assyrians
Referencial Symbol
African Economic Organization
Universalities
46. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Mendel's second principle of genetics
African Economic Organization
Technology development research
Tributary Production
47. 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
Assyrians
Class
Shaman
Catal Huyak
48. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Mythology
Diffusion
Egyptian diffusion
Rite of passage
49. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Social practices
exogamy
Alternatives
Franz Boas
50. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Kluckhohn
Chiefdom
Warlike people
Marx - Freud - & Saussure