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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Benedict
radiometric dating
perforated edges
Ralph Lynton
2. 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
Upper Paleo period
Modernization
Absolute time
Social impact assessment
3. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Natural selection
Specialities
Benedict
Unit of Kinship
4. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Asian farming
Diffusion
Adaptation
Geerts
5. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Superposition
Stimulus Diffusion
Sapir-Whorf
Weber
6. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Functionalism
KhoiKhoi
Mary Douglas Leakey
Tribe
7. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Chiefdom
Greeks
Intervention Anthropology
Hunter/Gatherers
8. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Social practices
Yanomamo
Sanction
Relative time
9. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cargo Cult
Gene
Africa
Religion
10. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Phonetics
Hunter/Gatherers
Mutagen
Weber
11. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Ethnography
Rite of passage
Cultural Resource Assessment
Writing
12. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Phonology
European farming
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Genetic Recombination
13. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Matrilineal Descent
Caste
exogamy
Paleolithic period
14. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Negative Reciprocity
State
Catal Huyak
Egyptology
15. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Petrie
Taboo
North American Indians
Shaman
16. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Horticulture
Franz Boas
Anthropometry
Syntax
17. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Cargo Cult
Emile Durkheim
sharp edges
Universalities
18. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Gene pool
Yanomamo Feasting
Phases of rituals
19. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Petrie
Biosphere
Franz Boas
Ethnography
20. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Chromosome
Bands & Tribes
Gene pool
Mendel's first principle of genetics
21. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Cargo Cult
Cultural Ecology
Balanced Reciprocity
22. 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
Culture
Genpuku
Neanderthals
Real Culture
23. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Weber
Nitrogenous Bases
husbandry
Radcliffe-Brown
24. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Dating methods
Nistri periscope
Semantics
Levi-Strauss
25. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Monarchy
Mesolithic Period
Hunter/Gatherers
Horticulture
26. Spread of something from one group to another
Crossing over
American farming
Diffusion
Migration of Erectus
27. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Natural selection
Intervention Anthropology
Assyrians
Monogamy
28. Holistic study of humanity.
Symbol
perforated edges
Revitalization
Anthropology
29. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Class
Divorce
Java Man
Peking Man
30. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Physical Anthropology
Middle Paleo Period
babylonians
Redistribution
31. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Mauss
Survival
carbon-14 dating
Social practices
32. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Kinship
Levirate
Geerts
Cultural relativism
33. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Horticulture
Catal Huyak
Archaeology
Allele frequency
34. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotype
Archaeology
Middle east farming
Mendel's first principle of genetics
35. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
prosimians
EB Tylor
Greeks
Mary Douglas Leakey
36. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Bands & Tribes
carbon-14 dating
Genetic Recombination
Dating methods
37. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
phenotype
Mutation
Ethnography
Conspicuous Consumption
38. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Production
Totem
James George Frazer
39. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Family of procreation
Religion
Neolithic Technology
Hebrews
40. 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
Margaret Mead
Moieties
Tribe
Substantive Economics
41. 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.
Noosphere
State
Geosphere
Symbol
42. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Formal Economics
exogamy
Reciprocity
Writing
43. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Alternatives
Animism
Ideal culture
Allele frequency
44. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Austrailia indians
Mendelian population
Dokimasi
45. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Technology development research
Cultural Resource Assessment
Yanomamo Feasting
Leakey family
46. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Chromosome
Pragmatics
Anthropology
Cargo Cult
47. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
gene flow
Social impact assessment
Evaluation research
Yanomamo Feasting
48. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Mythology
Benedict
Bronze Age
Genpuku
49. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Middle Paleo Period
Warlike people
Mesolithic Period
50. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Evaluation research
phenotype
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Africa