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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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.
Functionalism
prehistoric archaeology
Culture
Social practices
2. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Homo Habilis
3 types of excavation
American farming
Semantics
3. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
War
Hunter/Gatherers
Mythology
Middle east farming
4. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
EB Tylor
Allele
Elsie Parsons
Non-warlike people
5. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
New World monkeys
Individual Peculiarities
Stratigraphy
6. 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)
Homo Erectus
Revitalization
Homonids
Cargo Cult
7. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
primates
Warlike people
Theory of organic evolution
Cross-cousins
8. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Industrialization
Tributary Production
Condensed Symbol
Java Man
9. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Neolithic Technology
Cognatic Descent
Homo Erectus
Warlike people
10. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
Status
Directed Cultural Change
Neanderthals
Catal Huyak
11. 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
Dokimasi
Potlatch
Emile Durkheim
Linguistics
12. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
carbon-14 dating
Rite of passage
Yanomamo
Redistribution
13. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Warlike people
Evaluation research
Lower Paleo Period
Genpuku
14. Shorthand - Morse Code
Franz Boas
Quinceanera
Condensed Symbol
Ralph Lynton
15. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Birth of Anthropology
sharp edges
KhoiKhoi
Savagery
16. 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]
babylonians
Schliemann
Franz Boas
classical archaeology
17. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Social practices
McLennan
Cultural Anthropology
Crossing over
18. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Stratigraphy
Individual Peculiarities
prehistoric archaeology
Symbol
19. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Directed Cultural Change
Olduvai Gorge
Egyptian diffusion
Cargo Cult
20. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Theory of organic evolution
EB Tylor
chimpanzee
Sumerians
21. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Clan
Non-warlike people
Absolute time
22. Spread of something from one group to another
Diffusion
Cargo Cult
Religion
Family of procreation
23. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Physical Anthropology
Ethnocentrism
Myth
Radcliffe-Brown
24. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Mayan indians
Pacific indians
Assyrians
Neolithic Technology
25. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Absolute time
Social impact assessment
Mutation
Totem
26. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
3 types of excavation
Yanomamo
Myth
War
27. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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28. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Ideal culture
Ritual
platyrrhini
Divorce
29. 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.
Structuralism
WG Rivers
Quinceanera
Market Exchange
30. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Pragmatics
Social impact assessment
Survival
Upper Paleo period
31. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Negative Reciprocity
Tribe
Anthropometry
Balanced Reciprocity
32. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
South American indians
Alternatives
Cultural Anthropology
Stratigraphy
33. (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
Gene migration
Directed Cultural Change
Animism
sharp edges
34. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
War
Mauss
gene flow
sharp edges
35. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Production
Savagery
Tribe
exogamy
36. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Tributary Production
Gens
Genetic drift
37. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Kluckhohn
Hebrews
Egypt
North American Indians
38. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Anthropology
Margaret Mead
Lineage
Tributary Production
39. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Biosphere
Mythology
Superposition
Mendelian population
40. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Legitimacy
Cargo Cult
Real Culture
41. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Geophysical prospecting
Electromagnetic prospecting
American farming
Anthropoids
42. 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.
State
Rite of passage
Phonetics
Phonology
43. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Nistri periscope
Anthropoids
Writing
Phonology
44. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Ethnology
Mutation
Mesolithic Period
Physical Anthropology
45. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Sanction
Unit of Kinship
Egyptian diffusion
Tribe
46. Thinkers: linguistics
Substantive Economics
Adaptation
Legitimacy
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
47. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
polished stone
Java Man
Structural-functional
Specialities
48. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Cultural relativism
Status
exogamy
Genetic drift
49. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Mutation
Gene pool
Paleolithic period
Olduvai Gorge
50. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Mary Douglas Leakey
Monogamy
homonoids
Semantics