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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Egypt
Cargo Cult
culture
Semantics
2. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Mayan indians
Redistribution
South American indians
Ritual
3. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Mutagen
Ideal culture
Industrialization
Ethnology
4. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Middle Paleo Period
Polygamy
Taboo
Cultural Anthropology
5. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Cro-Magnon
Formal Economics
Levi-Strauss
Cargo Cult
6. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Writing
Individual Peculiarities
Leakey family
Anthropology
7. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Middle east farming
Margaret Mead
Phonology
Myth
8. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Levirate
old world monkeys
Chiefdom
Geophysical prospecting
9. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Status
Tributary Production
Linguistics
Monarchy
10. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Status
Morphology
Rite of passage
Balanced Reciprocity
11. Things all people do the same way (language)
Diffusion
Ideal culture
prosimians
Universalities
12. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Tribe
Syntax
Levy-Bruhl
Religion
13. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Mythology
Cargo Cult
Cultural relativism
Egyptology
14. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Referencial Symbol
exogamy
platyrrhini
Taboo
15. Invented smelting of iron
Hittites
Levi-Strauss
European farming
Family of orientation
16. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Divorce
Noosphere
primates
radiometric dating
17. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Formal Economics
Java Man
Leakey family
Linguistics
18. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
Policy Research
Genetic Recombination
Africa
19. 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)
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Syntax
Divorce
Sumerians
20. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Cultural Anthropology
Hunter/Gatherers
Balanced Reciprocity
phenotype
21. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Homonids
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Mayan indians
Kluckhohn
22. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Ziggurat
Hunter/Gatherers
Barbarism
Olduvai Gorge
23. 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.
Peking Man
Individual Peculiarities
Potlatch
Cultural Evolution
24. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Egyptian diffusion
Shaman
Allele
Qualitative Research
25. Man marries widow of his dead brother
babylonians
Dokimasi
Levirate
Agriculture
26. Thinkers: linguistics
Hunter/Gatherers
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Genpuku
Caste
27. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Africa
Margaret Mead
Mauss
Moieties
28. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
chimpanzee
Caste
carbon-14 dating
Modernization
29. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Homo Erectus
Central American indians
Gens
Unilineal Descent
30. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
KhoiKhoi
Specialities
Real Culture
Diffusion
31. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Intervention Anthropology
sharp edges
Universalities
polyandry
32. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
New World monkeys
old world monkeys
Negative Reciprocity
33. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Barbarism
Noosphere
sharp edges
Peking Man
34. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
classical archaeology
Paleolithic period
Fieldwork
Chromosome
35. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
North American Indians
Gene pool
Policy Research
Paleolithic period
36. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Unit of Kinship
Mesopotamia
Policy Research
Mutagen
37. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Writing
classical archaeology
Stimulus Diffusion
Individual Peculiarities
38. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Hebrews
Sapir-Whorf
Emic perspective
Ethnology
39. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Kluckhohn
Chromosome
Genotype
Religion
40. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Stratigraphy
carbon-14 dating
Religion
Substantive Economics
41. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Olduvai Gorge
Cultivation
Genpuku
Chromosome
42. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Formal Economics
Geophysical prospecting
International Development
Ziggurat
43. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
mana
Divorce
Biosphere
44. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'
Market Exchange
Fieldwork
Homo Habilis
Affinal kin
45. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Cultivation
Physical Anthropology
Cognatic Descent
Policy Research
46. Ways to date artifacts
Theory of organic evolution
Directed Cultural Change
Linguistics
Dating methods
47. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Sanction
American farming
Gene
Social practices
48. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Tribe
Middle Paleo Period
Migration of Erectus
Structuralism
49. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Polygamy
Sanction
Lineage
Cultural relativism
50. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Horticulture
Crossing over
DNA
Lineage