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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Negative Reciprocity
Morphology
Greeks
Neolithic Technology
2. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Schliemann
phenotype
prehistoric archaeology
polished stone
3. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Kluckhohn
Greeks
Unit of Kinship
old world monkeys
4. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Natural selection
Family of procreation
Cro-Magnon
culture
5. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Electromagnetic prospecting
culture
Egyptian diffusion
Horticulture
6. 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.
Weber
State
Status
African Economic Organization
7. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Warlike people
Gens
Dead Sea scrolls
European farming
8. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Crossing over
Social practices
Directed Cultural Change
Ideal culture
9. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Petrie
Mutation
Savagery
Armchair Anthropologists
10. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
mana
Agriculture
Tribe
Morphology
11. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Cargo Cult
Sondages
Mutagen
12. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Diffusion
Cultural Evolution
chimpanzee
Status
13. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
homonoids
Lower Paleo Period
Chiefdom
Homonids
14. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Shaman
Hammurabi
Geophysical prospecting
Upper Paleo period
15. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
Armchair Anthropologists
Olduvai Gorge
Caste
European farming
16. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Shaman
Linguistics
Real Culture
17. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cultivation
classical archaeology
Sondages
Condensed Symbol
18. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Kinship
Catal Huyak
Leakey family
Assyrians
19. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
WG Rivers
mana
Genetic Recombination
polished stone
20. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Yanomamo Feasting
Paleolithic period
Electromagnetic prospecting
Homo Erectus
21. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
State
Ethnology
Geosphere
Cargo Cult
22. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Animal domestication
New World monkeys
Shaman
Bands & Tribes
23. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
Armchair Anthropologists
Mesopotamia
Stimulus Diffusion
mana
24. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Pacific indians
Monarchy
Geosphere
Bronze Age
25. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
culture
Kindred
babylonians
Radcliffe-Brown
26. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
culture
Geophysical prospecting
Chiefdom
Gene migration
27. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Kinship
Cross-cousins
Bronze Age
Genpuku
28. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Sondages
Genetic drift
Magnetic prospecting
Legitimacy
29. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Radcliffe-Brown
Levy-Bruhl
Kroeber
Superposition
30. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Tributary Production
Taboo
Matrilineal Descent
Culture
31. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Greeks
Ralph Lynton
Quantitative Research
Applied Anthropology
32. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Matrilineal Descent
Religion
Birth of Anthropology
Greeks
33. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
carbon-14 dating
3 types of excavation
Absolute time
State
34. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Real Culture
Structuralism
Cargo Cult
Gene migration
35. 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.
Non-warlike people
prehistoric archaeology
mana
Lower Paleo Period
36. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Status
husbandry
Cross-cousins
Electromagnetic prospecting
37. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Tribe
Mutation
Substantive Economics
Armchair Anthropologists
38. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Religion
Anthropometry
Asian farming
culture
39. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Cultural Evolution
Allele
Yanomamo Feasting
Monarchy
40. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
International Development
Kluckhohn
WG Rivers
Dokimasi
41. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Religion
prosimians
Symbol
Hittites
42. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
Band
Leakey family
Shaman
43. Thinkers: linguistics
Diffusion
Substantive Economics
Sapir-Whorf
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
44. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Gene
Gene migration
Modernization
Religion
45. (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
Cargo Cult
Market Exchange
Chiefdom
Mesolithic Period
46. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animism
Phonology
carbon-14 dating
Animal domestication
47. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Social practices
Specialities
Radcliffe-Brown
pastoralism
48. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Functionalism
Taboo
Migration of Erectus
Mutation
49. 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
Phonology
Ziggurat
Neanderthals
Electromagnetic prospecting
50. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Peking Man
Cognatic Descent
Relative time
Social practices