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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Chiefdom
Cultivation
Linguistics
Lineage
2. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Yanomamo Feasting
Geerts
Mesopotamia
Savagery
3. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Paleolithic period
Reciprocity
phenotype
Pacific indians
4. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Reciprocity
Magnetic prospecting
Animal domestication
Substantive Economics
5. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
platyrrhini
Cross-cousins
Excavation
Warlike people
6. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Australopithecus
Cargo Cult
Family of procreation
Anthropology
7. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Chiefdom
Quantitative Research
KhoiKhoi
McLennan
8. 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)
Levirate
Family of orientation
Anthropoids
Revitalization
9. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Peking Man
Chiefdom
Emic perspective
Genetic Recombination
10. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Chiefdom
3 types of excavation
Homo Erectus
prehistoric archaeology
11. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Cross-cousins
Elsie Parsons
polished stone
Neolithic Period
12. Thinkers: linguistics
Genetic drift
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Relative time
Morphology
13. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Birth of Anthropology
gene flow
Cross-cousins
Cargo Cult
14. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Catal Huyak
Levy-Bruhl
Armchair Anthropologists
Upper Paleo period
15. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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16. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cultivation
Homonids
Survival
Central American indians
17. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Levy-Bruhl
Radcliffe-Brown
Applied Anthropology
18. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
polyandry
Individual Peculiarities
Cargo Cult
Nitrogenous Bases
19. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Mutagen
Gene
chimpanzee
Band
20. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
North American Indians
Ideal culture
Elsie Parsons
Negative Reciprocity
21. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Hebrews
Franz Boas
Cross-cousins
North American Indians
22. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Migration of Erectus
International Development
Adaptation
23. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
Modernization
Agriculture
phenotype
24. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
endogamy
Diffusion
Moieties
Cultural Evolution
25. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Alternatives
Evaluation research
Polygamy
Middle east farming
26. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
babylonians
Mauss
endogamy
Allele frequency
27. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Phratry
Sanction
3 types of excavation
Kindred
28. 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.
Cultural Anthropology
Sondages
Natural selection
Geerts
29. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Egyptology
Radcliffe-Brown
Greeks
Nistri periscope
30. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Margaret Mead
Homo Habilis
Culture
War
31. 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
Legitimacy
Absolute time
Neanderthals
Emile Durkheim
32. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Sondages
Cultural Anthropology
Homonids
Greeks
33. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Symbol
Stimulus Diffusion
War
Market Exchange
34. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Nistri periscope
Stimulus Diffusion
Genotypic Variations
Central American indians
35. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Cross-cousins
Hammurabi
Mesopotamia
gene flow
36. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Bands & Tribes
Gene
Austrailia indians
Morphology
37. 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)
Cargo Cult
Divorce
Armchair Anthropologists
Pragmatics
38. 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.
Armchair Anthropologists
husbandry
Animal domestication
Nistri periscope
39. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Theory of organic evolution
Religion
Applied Anthropology
Australopithecus
40. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Benedict
Weber
Industrialization
Radcliffe-Brown
41. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Shaman
Theory of organic evolution
Franz Boas
Universalities
42. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Cognatic Descent
Sapir-Whorf
Benedict
Evaluation research
43. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Upper Paleo period
Real Culture
Semantics
Non-warlike people
44. 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
Paleolithic period
Applied Anthropology
culture
Birth of Anthropology
45. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
DNA
Family of orientation
Kinship
Margaret Mead
46. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Reciprocity
DNA
Civilization
Paleolithic period
47. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Cargo Cult
Absolute time
Etic perspective
Myth
48. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Mythology
Nistri periscope
American farming
Gene migration
49. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
North American Indians
Market Exchange
Genetic Recombination
Homonids
50. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
Upper Paleo period
Tributary Production
Clan