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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Hebrews
Individual Peculiarities
Birth of Anthropology
Dead Sea scrolls
2. Relatives through marriage
Affinal kin
Neolithic Technology
endogamy
Mesopotamia
3. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Mayan indians
Assyrians
Kinship
Nistri periscope
4. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Egypt
Gene pool
Specialities
Neanderthals
5. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Referencial Symbol
Weber
Symbol
Genpuku
6. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Yanomamo Feasting
Structuralism
Hammurabi
Alternatives
7. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Semantics
Neolithic Technology
Monarchy
8. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Syntax
Warlike people
Pragmatics
9. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Chiefdom
Catal Huyak
Schliemann
Phases of rituals
10. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Generalized Reciprocity
Band
Radcliffe-Brown
Social practices
11. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Genpuku
Yanomamo
Social Darwinism
Mesopotamia
12. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Genetic drift
Taboo
EB Tylor
Nuclear Family
13. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Generalized Reciprocity
Social practices
Ethnography
14. Traces back to ONE person
Religion
Lineage
Genetic drift
Negative Reciprocity
15. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Taboo
Neolithic Period
Ethnography
Mendel's third principle of genetics
16. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Hammurabi
Matrilineal Descent
radiometric dating
Individual Peculiarities
17. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Affinal kin
Hebrews
Ralph Lynton
exogamy
18. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Band
Magnetic prospecting
Geophysical prospecting
North American Indians
19. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Neolithic Technology
Franz Boas
Assyrians
Savagery
20. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Formal Economics
Applied Anthropology
Structural-functional
Central American indians
21. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Gene
Religion
Dokimasi
Cross-cousins
22. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
Sapir-Whorf
Substantive Economics
Elsie Parsons
23. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Family of procreation
Chiefdom
Clan
Ideal culture
24. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Ziggurat
Tributary Production
Symbol
State
25. 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.
Africa
Levy-Bruhl
Mythology
State
26. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Phonetics
Mary Douglas Leakey
platyrrhini
Barbarism
27. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Sanction
prosimians
radiometric dating
Sumerians
28. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
South American indians
Social Class Manifestation
Referencial Symbol
Yanomamo Feasting
29. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Balanced Reciprocity
polished stone
Myth
Linguistics
30. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
Legitimacy
Syntax
Rite of passage
31. Thinkers: linguistics
Asian farming
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Bands & Tribes
Assyrians
32. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Kroeber
Dating methods
Intervention Anthropology
Lineage
33. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Hittites
Franz Boas
Anthropometry
Horticulture
34. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Qualitative Research
Reciprocity
Evaluation research
Mayan indians
35. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Fieldwork
Applied Anthropology
Sondages
Warlike people
36. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
primates
Ziggurat
Elsie Parsons
37. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Kluckhohn
Technology development research
Adaptation
Cultural Evolution
38. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Allele frequency
Social Class Manifestation
Radcliffe-Brown
Agriculture
39. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Lower Paleo Period
Affinal kin
Radcliffe-Brown
Universalities
40. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
International Development
Java Man
Anthropometry
Hammurabi
41. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
culture
Policy Research
Directed Cultural Change
Geosphere
42. (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
Elsie Parsons
Individual Peculiarities
South American indians
Hunter/Gatherers
43. 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)
Malinowski
Phratry
Family of procreation
Lineage
44. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Civilization
Bands & Tribes
gene flow
Ritual
45. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Cultural Anthropology
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Family of orientation
Religion
46. 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
primates
Peking Man
American farming
Tributary Production
47. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Ethnography
Dead Sea scrolls
Legitimacy
McLennan
48. (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
Hunter/Gatherers
Animism
chimpanzee
Technology development research
49. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Feudal System
Chiefdom
Stratigraphy
Absolute time
50. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Migration of Erectus
Writing
Anthropometry
Phonology
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