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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Cro-Magnon
Sapir-Whorf
Geerts
platyrrhini
2. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Hunter/Gatherers
Egyptian diffusion
WG Rivers
3. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Assyrians
Mesolithic Period
Emile Durkheim
Neolithic Technology
4. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Bands & Tribes
Revitalization
New World monkeys
Mendel's second principle of genetics
5. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Policy Research
culture
mana
Moieties
6. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Armchair Anthropologists
Market Exchange
Chiefdom
Band
7. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
War
platyrrhini
Status
Cargo Cult
8. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Ethnology
Dokimasi
Superposition
Poy Tang Lon
9. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Yanomamo
Social impact assessment
Superposition
Levirate
10. (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
Animism
classical archaeology
Genetic Recombination
Emile Durkheim
11. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Absolute time
Dokimasi
Agriculture
Cross-cousins
12. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Monogamy
Modernization
Cultivation
Bronze Age
13. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Electromagnetic prospecting
North American Indians
Genpuku
Reciprocity
14. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Qualitative Research
Ritual
mana
Dead Sea scrolls
15. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Taboo
Emile Durkheim
American farming
Absolute time
16. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Electromagnetic prospecting
Gens
Unilineal Descent
Austrailia indians
17. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
endogamy
International Development
Phonology
Caste
18. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Ziggurat
Cultural Ecology
Dokimasi
husbandry
19. Spread of something from one group to another
Birth of Anthropology
Feudal System
Survival
Diffusion
20. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Java Man
Semantics
Survival
Cargo Cult
21. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Structural-functional
Non-warlike people
Homonids
Excavation
22. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
sharp edges
Chromosome
Phonetics
Industrialization
23. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
South American indians
Balanced Reciprocity
Chromosome
Family of procreation
24. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Genetic drift
Condensed Symbol
Moieties
Formal Economics
25. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Levirate
Electromagnetic prospecting
Biosphere
Mauss
26. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Paleolithic period
Archaeology
Ritual
Ideal culture
27. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Lineage
Family of procreation
primates
Theory of organic evolution
28. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Mesopotamia
Olduvai Gorge
Mauss
Structural-functional
29. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Cultivation
Relative time
State
Geerts
30. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Emic perspective
American farming
sharp edges
31. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Industrialization
Unit of Kinship
Gene pool
Functionalism
32. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Functionalism
Adaptation
Legitimacy
Leakey family
33. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Natural selection
Syntax
Geophysical prospecting
34. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Kindred
Genpuku
Social Class Manifestation
Production
35. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Cultural Ecology
Geosphere
Religion
Chromosome
36. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Africa
Cultural Anthropology
Culture
37. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Homo Habilis
Cargo Cult
Ethnography
Dead Sea scrolls
38. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Moieties
Taboo
Yanomamo
Kroeber
39. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
American farming
Alternatives
Leakey family
Nistri periscope
40. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Pragmatics
Genotype
Referencial Symbol
Australopithecus
41. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Assyrians
Neolithic Period
Industrialization
Migration of Erectus
42. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Animism
Qualitative Research
South American indians
Anthropoids
43. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
prehistoric archaeology
Production
Individual Peculiarities
Mendelian population
44. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Austrailia indians
chimpanzee
Greeks
Hammurabi
45. 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).
Kluckhohn
Unit of Kinship
Syntax
Tribe
46. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Cultural relativism
Non-warlike people
Phonetics
Leakey family
47. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
gene flow
Caste
Egyptology
European farming
48. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Schliemann
Clan
Neanderthals
Tributary Production
49. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Emile Durkheim
Migration of Erectus
War
Kluckhohn
50. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Paleolithic period
Ethnocentrism
Genpuku
Assyrians