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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Potlatch
pastoralism
Aztec indians
Individual Peculiarities
2. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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3. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Rite of passage
Diffusion
Caste
Mendelian population
4. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Rite of passage
Monarchy
Cargo Cult
Austrailia indians
5. Invented smelting of iron
Diffusion
Survival
Cultivation
Hittites
6. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Substantive Economics
Nitrogenous Bases
Upper Paleo period
Cultural Ecology
7. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Individual Peculiarities
Benedict
Substantive Economics
8. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Poy Tang Lon
Sapir-Whorf
Pacific indians
phenotype
9. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Mutation
Archaeology
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Alternatives
10. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Benedict
Cargo Cult
Phonology
War
11. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Lineage
Excavation
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Survival
12. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Crossing over
James George Frazer
Gene
primates
13. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Polygamy
Matrilineal Descent
Sapir-Whorf
14. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Unit of Kinship
Cultural Anthropology
Allele frequency
Anthropoids
15. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Pacific indians
Family of procreation
Cargo Cult
exogamy
16. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Cultural Evolution
North American Indians
Sondages
Hebrews
17. 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
Cultural Anthropology
Neanderthals
Ethnology
Neolithic Technology
18. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Homo Habilis
Lower Paleo Period
Cargo Cult
Universalities
19. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Australopithecus
Ralph Lynton
Theory of organic evolution
Armchair Anthropologists
20. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Reciprocity
Homo Erectus
Crossing over
Genetic drift
21. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Intervention Anthropology
KhoiKhoi
babylonians
Phases of rituals
22. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Archaeology
Structural-functional
Sapir-Whorf
Production
23. 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)
Taboo
Structural-functional
Social Darwinism
primates
24. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Linguistics
Anthropology
North American Indians
Tributary Production
25. 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)
Class
Allele
Phratry
Kroeber
26. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Franz Boas
New World monkeys
Homo Habilis
Fieldwork
27. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Franz Boas
Status
Nitrogenous Bases
Poy Tang Lon
28. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Civilization
Taboo
Writing
Phratry
29. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Australopithecus
Kluckhohn
Malinowski
Cognatic Descent
30. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mauss
State
Superposition
Universalities
31. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
prehistoric archaeology
Magnetic prospecting
Geerts
Schliemann
32. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Java Man
Cross-cousins
Ralph Lynton
Bands & Tribes
33. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Hammurabi
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Mythology
Benedict
34. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Tribe
Africa
Phonetics
Gene migration
35. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Yanomamo
EB Tylor
Hunter/Gatherers
36. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
polyandry
Catal Huyak
carbon-14 dating
Dead Sea scrolls
37. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Migration of Erectus
Kinship
Adaptation
Structuralism
38. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Pragmatics
Sumerians
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Petrie
39. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Real Culture
Universalities
Culture
Tributary Production
40. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.
prehistoric archaeology
New World monkeys
Genpuku
Phonetics
41. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Production
Mendelian population
Ideal culture
Unit of Kinship
42. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Cargo Cult
Divorce
husbandry
Kroeber
43. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Geophysical prospecting
Polygamy
Neolithic Technology
Genetic Recombination
44. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Cro-Magnon
Clan
Elsie Parsons
Geophysical prospecting
45. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Ideal culture
Cultural Resource Assessment
Morphology
Elsie Parsons
46. 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)
Dokimasi
Divorce
Polygamy
Mauss
47. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Affinal kin
Taboo
Radcliffe-Brown
polyandry
48. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
radiometric dating
polyandry
chimpanzee
Feudal System
49. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Sanction
Totem
Peking Man
Leakey family
50. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Gene migration
Archaeology
Social practices
mana