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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Dating methods
State
husbandry
Cognatic Descent
2. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
African Economic Organization
DNA
Radcliffe-Brown
Mayan indians
3. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Linguistics
WG Rivers
Potlatch
Homonids
4. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Geerts
South American indians
Cultivation
phenotype
5. 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
Shaman
Mayan indians
Applied Anthropology
Crossing over
6. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Assyrians
gene flow
Conspicuous Consumption
Olduvai Gorge
7. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
classical archaeology
Greeks
Kroeber
Crossing over
8. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Real Culture
Geophysical prospecting
Reciprocity
Structuralism
9. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Cultural relativism
Franz Boas
Unilineal Descent
Catal Huyak
10. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Franz Boas
Elsie Parsons
Egypt
Feudal System
11. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Pragmatics
Ritual
Market Exchange
Savagery
12. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
classical archaeology
Geophysical prospecting
Franz Boas
Barbarism
13. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Archaeology
Phonology
Geophysical prospecting
WG Rivers
14. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Nuclear Family
carbon-14 dating
platyrrhini
Agriculture
15. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Anthropology
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Noosphere
Individual Peculiarities
16. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Emile Durkheim
gene flow
DNA
17. 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.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Cultural Anthropology
Physical Anthropology
Cultural Evolution
18. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Formal Economics
Industrialization
Unilineal Descent
Mayan indians
19. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Franz Boas
Excavation
Directed Cultural Change
Gene pool
20. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
Franz Boas
Relative time
platyrrhini
21. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Directed Cultural Change
Middle Paleo Period
Social Darwinism
Divorce
22. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotypic Variations
Genotype
Austrailia indians
Aztec indians
23. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Barbarism
Syntax
Unilineal Descent
Applied Anthropology
24. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Anthropoids
Cross-cousins
Diffusion
Band
25. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Functionalism
Genpuku
Biosphere
Culture
26. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Elsie Parsons
polished stone
babylonians
27. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Etic perspective
Africa
Armchair Anthropologists
Emile Durkheim
28. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
culture
Referencial Symbol
Geophysical prospecting
Mendelian population
29. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
mana
Chiefdom
Agriculture
Totem
30. (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
Animism
Africa
Cultural Evolution
Status
31. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Migration of Erectus
Industrialization
Class
polyandry
32. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Armchair Anthropologists
Hammurabi
Gens
pastoralism
33. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Gens
Functionalism
Nitrogenous Bases
Mythology
34. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Peking Man
Generalized Reciprocity
Kinship
Yanomamo
35. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
Radcliffe-Brown
Tribe
Shaman
36. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
Ethnocentrism
Unit of Kinship
Petrie
37. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Ralph Lynton
Phases of rituals
Directed Cultural Change
Yanomamo
38. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Non-warlike people
prehistoric archaeology
War
Gene pool
39. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
Hittites
Weber
Religion
40. Thinker: social stratification
Weber
Nistri periscope
Barbarism
Social Darwinism
41. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Kinship
Sanction
culture
Cargo Cult
42. <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
Chiefdom
Potlatch
Upper Paleo period
Intervention Anthropology
43. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Potlatch
Mauss
Social practices
Balanced Reciprocity
44. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Olduvai Gorge
Substantive Economics
Levirate
Sondages
45. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Kindred
Social Class Manifestation
Theory of organic evolution
Archaeology
46. 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.
Referencial Symbol
Kroeber
primates
Armchair Anthropologists
47. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Cargo Cult
Mesopotamia
Kindred
Cultivation
48. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Cultural Anthropology
Bronze Age
Affinal kin
Sondages
49. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Noosphere
Ziggurat
Social Class Manifestation
50. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Electromagnetic prospecting
polyandry
Cultivation
Applied Anthropology