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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






2. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






3. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






4. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law






5. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.






6. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






7. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure






8. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






9. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)






10. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






11. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






12. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






13. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






14. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






15. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






16. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






17. 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).






18. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






19. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






20. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






21. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






22. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






23. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects






24. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






25. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






26. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






27. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






28. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






29. Shorthand - Morse Code






30. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






31. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






32. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






33. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






34. 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






35. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






36. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






37. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






38. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






39. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






40. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






41. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






42. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.






43. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






44. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






45. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






46. 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






47. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






48. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






49. 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)






50. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources