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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Homo Erectus
Egyptology
Stratigraphy
Cultural relativism
2. 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)
Cargo Cult
Revitalization
Birth of Anthropology
Religion
3. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Archaeology
Neanderthals
3 types of excavation
American farming
4. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
State
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Emile Durkheim
Cultural Evolution
5. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Nitrogenous Bases
Rite of passage
Levy-Bruhl
Religion
6. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
American farming
Caste
Revitalization
Bronze Age
7. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)
Social Darwinism
Sanction
Bands & Tribes
Radcliffe-Brown
8. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
Monogamy
Stratigraphy
Social impact assessment
9. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Chiefdom
Nistri periscope
Nuclear Family
Birth of Anthropology
10. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Negative Reciprocity
Social Class Manifestation
Sondages
Schliemann
11. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Geosphere
Social Darwinism
Ralph Lynton
Nitrogenous Bases
12. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Cultural Anthropology
Matrilineal Descent
Barbarism
Revitalization
13. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Phratry
McLennan
Religion
Africa
14. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Syntax
Genotypic Variations
Ethnology
Lineage
15. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Dating methods
Egyptian diffusion
WG Rivers
DNA
16. 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
Civilization
Ideal culture
Kroeber
Modernization
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.
Dating methods
Cultural Evolution
Condensed Symbol
Pragmatics
18. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Hunter/Gatherers
Cross-cousins
Specialities
Band
19. Thinkers: linguistics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Unilineal Descent
Genotypic Variations
Real Culture
20. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Horticulture
Levy-Bruhl
Kluckhohn
James George Frazer
21. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Shaman
Phonology
Asian farming
Benedict
22. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Unit of Kinship
Genotypic Variations
Mythology
Quinceanera
23. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Survival
Symbol
Mutagen
North American Indians
24. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
State
Genotypic Variations
KhoiKhoi
Functionalism
25. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
Cultural Anthropology
Mythology
South American indians
26. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Bronze Age
Ideal culture
Anthropometry
Social Darwinism
27. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
Franz Boas
homonoids
Myth
Physical Anthropology
28. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Olduvai Gorge
South American indians
Cultural relativism
Ziggurat
29. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Poy Tang Lon
Egyptian diffusion
Writing
Polygamy
30. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
primates
Physical Anthropology
Neolithic Period
Cultural Anthropology
31. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Mutagen
Cultural relativism
Levi-Strauss
pastoralism
32. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Referencial Symbol
Savagery
Diffusion
Industrialization
33. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
Ralph Lynton
Writing
platyrrhini
34. 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
Directed Cultural Change
Symbol
Applied Anthropology
Band
35. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Gene pool
Theory of organic evolution
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Revitalization
36. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Egyptology
platyrrhini
Hebrews
37. 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)
Malinowski
Chiefdom
Anthropometry
Formal Economics
38. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
South American indians
New World monkeys
Chiefdom
39. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Levy-Bruhl
Egyptology
Band
Warlike people
40. Holistic study of humanity.
Mutation
Genotype
Middle Paleo Period
Anthropology
41. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Religion
Anthropology
Neanderthals
Absolute time
42. (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
Mesolithic Period
Generalized Reciprocity
Non-warlike people
American farming
43. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Emile Durkheim
Mutation
Social practices
Leakey family
44. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Symbol
Linguistics
Genpuku
Electromagnetic prospecting
45. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Applied Anthropology
Middle Paleo Period
Margaret Mead
Pacific indians
46. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
African Economic Organization
WG Rivers
Religion
Genetic Recombination
47. 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)
Nistri periscope
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Java Man
Divorce
48. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Egypt
Religion
Semantics
Syntax
49. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Dead Sea scrolls
Mesopotamia
Referencial Symbol
50. Ways to date artifacts
Qualitative Research
Conspicuous Consumption
Dating methods
Kinship
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