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DSST General Anthropology
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1. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Cultural relativism
Ideal culture
Bronze Age
sharp edges
2. 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
Lineage
Phases of rituals
Modernization
carbon-14 dating
3. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Margaret Mead
Nistri periscope
Real Culture
Electromagnetic prospecting
4. 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.
Sumerians
Yanomamo
Middle east farming
Armchair Anthropologists
5. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Matrilineal Descent
Kinship
Phases of rituals
Natural selection
6. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Diffusion
Africa
International Development
7. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Kluckhohn
Social impact assessment
Moieties
Biosphere
8. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Barbarism
Cargo Cult
classical archaeology
Phonology
9. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Cross-cousins
Franz Boas
Hebrews
Animism
10. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
Natural selection
Technology development research
Dead Sea scrolls
Weber
11. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
classical archaeology
homonoids
Cultural relativism
Phratry
12. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Totem
Individual Peculiarities
Status
Electromagnetic prospecting
13. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Allele frequency
Cultural Evolution
Legitimacy
Ethnocentrism
14. 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]
KhoiKhoi
Franz Boas
Balanced Reciprocity
endogamy
15. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Levy-Bruhl
Individual Peculiarities
Caste
Leakey family
16. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Ideal culture
Cognatic Descent
Phases of rituals
Yanomamo
17. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
War
Cargo Cult
Birth of Anthropology
Ethnology
18. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Clan
classical archaeology
Rite of passage
Individual Peculiarities
19. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Quinceanera
Middle east farming
Tributary Production
Band
20. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Morphology
Policy Research
Etic perspective
State
21. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Physical Anthropology
Cultural Resource Assessment
Caste
Sanction
22. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Symbol
European farming
Feudal System
Anthropoids
23. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Structural-functional
primates
culture
Genpuku
24. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Ethnocentrism
Emile Durkheim
Intervention Anthropology
Gene
25. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Qualitative Research
Lower Paleo Period
Mythology
endogamy
26. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Middle Paleo Period
Cognatic Descent
radiometric dating
Warlike people
27. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Negative Reciprocity
Geerts
Agriculture
mana
28. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Nitrogenous Bases
Ethnography
African Economic Organization
Asian farming
29. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Greeks
Central American indians
Policy Research
Cargo Cult
30. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
Formal Economics
gene flow
platyrrhini
31. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Chiefdom
Specialities
Policy Research
32. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Structural-functional
Cultivation
Revitalization
gene flow
33. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
pastoralism
Clan
phenotype
Mesopotamia
34. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Elsie Parsons
Birth of Anthropology
Allele
Cargo Cult
35. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Homo Erectus
Homonids
Stratigraphy
culture
36. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
polyandry
Middle Paleo Period
3 types of excavation
Cargo Cult
37. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Dead Sea scrolls
Specialities
Myth
Genetic drift
38. 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..
Generalized Reciprocity
sharp edges
EB Tylor
Dead Sea scrolls
39. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Lower Paleo Period
Homo Erectus
Revitalization
Mauss
40. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Yanomamo
Biosphere
Polygamy
41. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Mesolithic Period
Kindred
Social Class Manifestation
Middle Paleo Period
42. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
old world monkeys
Feudal System
Phonetics
43. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
Egyptian diffusion
Theory of organic evolution
Genpuku
44. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Unilineal Descent
Central American indians
South American indians
husbandry
45. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
Kluckhohn
Structuralism
Conspicuous Consumption
46. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Legitimacy
primates
Ralph Lynton
Benedict
47. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Chiefdom
Dead Sea scrolls
Cro-Magnon
Real Culture
48. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Warlike people
Mary Douglas Leakey
Absolute time
Shaman
49. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Lineage
Nitrogenous Bases
Syntax
Linguistics
50. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
carbon-14 dating
Mayan indians
Diffusion
Pacific indians