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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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).
Animism
Unit of Kinship
Morphology
Nistri periscope
2. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Writing
polished stone
Gene pool
International Development
3. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Myth
Egyptology
Fieldwork
Balanced Reciprocity
4. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
radiometric dating
Electromagnetic prospecting
McLennan
Status
5. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Applied Anthropology
Sanction
carbon-14 dating
Legitimacy
6. (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
Anthropoids
Mesolithic Period
Stratigraphy
James George Frazer
7. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
DNA
Pacific indians
Social Class Manifestation
Leakey family
8. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Totem
Gene
Allele frequency
Quinceanera
9. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Revitalization
Geerts
Malinowski
Dead Sea scrolls
10. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Policy Research
Superposition
Chiefdom
Mauss
11. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Biosphere
Paleolithic period
sharp edges
Chiefdom
12. Invented smelting of iron
War
Hittites
Quinceanera
DNA
13. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
Affinal kin
Potlatch
Benedict
14. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Structuralism
babylonians
Physical Anthropology
15. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Cargo Cult
Levy-Bruhl
Noosphere
Genetic Recombination
16. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Anthropoids
Real Culture
polished stone
primates
17. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Social impact assessment
primates
Clan
Allele frequency
18. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
classical archaeology
Status
Kinship
polyandry
19. 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
Status
Intervention Anthropology
Neanderthals
prosimians
20. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
husbandry
Linguistics
Ethnology
Quantitative Research
21. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Social Darwinism
primates
Cargo Cult
Status
22. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Stimulus Diffusion
New World monkeys
Reciprocity
Allele frequency
23. Shorthand - Morse Code
KhoiKhoi
Condensed Symbol
Structural-functional
culture
24. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Kinship
Conspicuous Consumption
Genetic Recombination
carbon-14 dating
25. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
culture
Status
Genpuku
Dokimasi
26. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Natural selection
Polygamy
carbon-14 dating
Agriculture
27. (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
Yanomamo
Animism
Policy Research
Anthropoids
28. 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
Affinal kin
Hebrews
Substantive Economics
culture
29. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Sanction
Absolute time
Sapir-Whorf
Migration of Erectus
30. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Reciprocity
Social Class Manifestation
Real Culture
perforated edges
31. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Malinowski
Qualitative Research
Benedict
Nistri periscope
32. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Anthropoids
Chiefdom
Myth
Leakey family
33. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
State
Genetic drift
primates
Absolute time
34. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Levirate
Egypt
mana
Religion
35. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
sharp edges
Weber
Paleolithic period
Electromagnetic prospecting
36. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Legitimacy
Production
Civilization
exogamy
37. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Rite of passage
Greeks
Etic perspective
Cultural Evolution
38. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Mythology
Greeks
Catal Huyak
Crossing over
39. Thinker: social stratification
Weber
Dokimasi
Stratigraphy
Caste
40. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Diffusion
Egypt
Animism
41. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Allele frequency
James George Frazer
Taboo
Kindred
42. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Matrilineal Descent
African Economic Organization
Referencial Symbol
sharp edges
43. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
44. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Anthropology
Mayan indians
Band
Sumerians
45. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Ziggurat
Class
Mesopotamia
Africa
46. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Savagery
Homonids
Neanderthals
Nuclear Family
47. 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
Peking Man
Middle east farming
Ethnology
Caste
48. Collecting community data for use by development planners
New World monkeys
Tribe
Social impact assessment
primates
49. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Stimulus Diffusion
Kroeber
gene flow
50. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Band
Non-warlike people
Cultural Anthropology
Geosphere