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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Cultivation
Animism
Poy Tang Lon
European farming
2. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Negative Reciprocity
Franz Boas
Anthropoids
Natural selection
3. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Warlike people
husbandry
Neolithic Technology
Middle Paleo Period
4. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Animism
Asian farming
Franz Boas
Applied Anthropology
5. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Shaman
Negative Reciprocity
Directed Cultural Change
Levi-Strauss
6. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Kinship
Archaeology
Hebrews
Alternatives
7. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
WG Rivers
Family of procreation
Mesopotamia
State
8. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Moieties
Phratry
Dead Sea scrolls
Elsie Parsons
9. Invented smelting of iron
Hittites
Quinceanera
Tribe
Substantive Economics
10. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Cultural Evolution
Kluckhohn
gene flow
Birth of Anthropology
11. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Market Exchange
Family of orientation
12. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Writing
Negative Reciprocity
Anthropometry
Homo Habilis
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
Relative time
Substantive Economics
Ethnology
Non-warlike people
14. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
platyrrhini
Non-warlike people
Anthropoids
Survival
15. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Pacific indians
Band
Balanced Reciprocity
Mendelian population
16. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Non-warlike people
Negative Reciprocity
Levy-Bruhl
Nistri periscope
17. 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
Lower Paleo Period
Neanderthals
Structural-functional
Monarchy
18. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
sharp edges
Franz Boas
Civilization
19. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Monarchy
sharp edges
WG Rivers
20. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
perforated edges
Band
prosimians
Egypt
21. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Quinceanera
husbandry
Mesolithic Period
Levirate
22. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
Taboo
Policy Research
Crossing over
23. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Religion
gene flow
Anthropoids
Nuclear Family
24. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
State
Lower Paleo Period
Individual Peculiarities
Totem
25. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
State
Social practices
Peking Man
Ethnography
26. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Conspicuous Consumption
Rite of passage
exogamy
Crossing over
27. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Malinowski
New World monkeys
Levy-Bruhl
Linguistics
28. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Nistri periscope
Diffusion
State
29. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
endogamy
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Religion
30. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Malinowski
Non-warlike people
African Economic Organization
31. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Dating methods
Anthropoids
Agriculture
Gene
32. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Symbol
polished stone
Functionalism
gene flow
33. 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]
Phratry
Franz Boas
James George Frazer
Excavation
34. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Ethnology
Individual Peculiarities
husbandry
Yanomamo Feasting
35. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Levirate
Aztec indians
Quantitative Research
Monarchy
36. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
Phonology
Dead Sea scrolls
Rite of passage
3 types of excavation
37. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Genotypic Variations
Ritual
Aztec indians
Emic perspective
38. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Ethnography
Schliemann
Non-warlike people
Fieldwork
39. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
sharp edges
Ritual
Austrailia indians
Armchair Anthropologists
40. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
chimpanzee
mana
Social practices
Barbarism
41. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Structuralism
3 types of excavation
Linguistics
EB Tylor
42. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Polygamy
Sanction
gene flow
Savagery
43. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Cultural Evolution
husbandry
Syntax
Ethnocentrism
44. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Gene
Phratry
Java Man
Cross-cousins
45. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
pastoralism
WG Rivers
Peking Man
46. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
KhoiKhoi
Caste
Balanced Reciprocity
Kluckhohn
47. 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
radiometric dating
Modernization
Gene pool
Redistribution
48. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
polished stone
Cultural Evolution
Genetic Recombination
49. 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
Structuralism
Natural selection
Formal Economics
prehistoric archaeology
50. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Syntax
Cognatic Descent
Balanced Reciprocity
culture