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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Cognatic Descent
Cross-cousins
Shaman
Levirate
2. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Writing
Asian farming
Geerts
polished stone
3. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
pastoralism
Stratigraphy
Mesopotamia
Nistri periscope
4. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Physical Anthropology
Morphology
Survival
American farming
5. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Divorce
Survival
Generalized Reciprocity
Elsie Parsons
6. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cognatic Descent
Etic perspective
Genpuku
Cultural Ecology
7. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Genetic Recombination
Neolithic Technology
Religion
Absolute time
8. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Yanomamo Feasting
Ethnography
Pacific indians
pastoralism
9. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Pragmatics
Substantive Economics
Natural selection
Superposition
10. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Geerts
Gens
prosimians
Nitrogenous Bases
11. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Australopithecus
Divorce
Genotype
Bands & Tribes
12. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Dead Sea scrolls
chimpanzee
Radcliffe-Brown
13. 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
mana
Mesolithic Period
Substantive Economics
Cargo Cult
14. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Class
Applied Anthropology
Poy Tang Lon
Cultural Evolution
15. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Homo Habilis
Relative time
Individual Peculiarities
mana
16. 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
Cognatic Descent
Potlatch
Chiefdom
Hebrews
17. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
prehistoric archaeology
Catal Huyak
Structural-functional
18. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Poy Tang Lon
Hebrews
Unilineal Descent
Balanced Reciprocity
19. Things all people do the same way (language)
Neanderthals
Cognatic Descent
Universalities
Negative Reciprocity
20. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
chimpanzee
Genotype
Bands & Tribes
prosimians
21. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Anthropoids
Biosphere
Geosphere
Ralph Lynton
22. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
pastoralism
gene flow
Middle Paleo Period
South American indians
23. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Polygamy
Modernization
Radcliffe-Brown
Mayan indians
24. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Gene
Kindred
Crossing over
Genetic drift
25. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Absolute time
Directed Cultural Change
Moieties
Social Class Manifestation
26. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
Levi-Strauss
Nuclear Family
Status
27. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Phases of rituals
Asian farming
Magnetic prospecting
Sondages
28. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Alternatives
Matrilineal Descent
Dokimasi
Africa
29. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Cultivation
Hammurabi
Natural selection
Petrie
30. Determining the success of a project
DNA
Intervention Anthropology
Evaluation research
Polygamy
31. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Cro-Magnon
Theory of organic evolution
Cultural Anthropology
Noosphere
32. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Egypt
Intervention Anthropology
Tributary Production
Caste
33. 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.
Physical Anthropology
Divorce
exogamy
James George Frazer
34. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Cultural Ecology
Diffusion
Cargo Cult
Neolithic Technology
35. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Cognatic Descent
Kindred
sharp edges
Sapir-Whorf
36. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Cargo Cult
Birth of Anthropology
Nistri periscope
Legitimacy
37. (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
radiometric dating
Structural-functional
Ethnology
Animism
38. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Structural-functional
Archaeology
Gene
Nuclear Family
39. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Sanction
Symbol
mana
Homo Erectus
40. 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
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Nitrogenous Bases
Class
Central American indians
41. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Anthropometry
Quantitative Research
Central American indians
42. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Tribe
Status
Real Culture
prehistoric archaeology
43. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Cargo Cult
Neolithic Technology
Feudal System
44. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Savagery
Yanomamo
Nuclear Family
Cro-Magnon
45. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
State
Linguistics
Chiefdom
homonoids
46. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Cargo Cult
Redistribution
Affinal kin
Petrie
47. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Class
Social impact assessment
Myth
Syntax
48. 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.
Cross-cousins
Armchair Anthropologists
Anthropoids
Cargo Cult
49. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
polished stone
carbon-14 dating
prehistoric archaeology
radiometric dating
50. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Referencial Symbol
Symbol
Austrailia indians
Moieties