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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Cultural relativism
Cargo Cult
Morphology
Natural selection
2. 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.
Cultural Evolution
Ethnography
phenotype
Adaptation
3. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Biosphere
chimpanzee
Nistri periscope
Magnetic prospecting
4. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Writing
Ethnology
Aztec indians
Neolithic Technology
5. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
polished stone
Greeks
perforated edges
Pragmatics
6. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Individual Peculiarities
Homonids
Sumerians
Substantive Economics
7. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Hittites
Anthropometry
mana
Cross-cousins
8. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Kinship
WG Rivers
Pragmatics
Non-warlike people
9. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Functionalism
Cultural Ecology
polished stone
Symbol
10. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Generalized Reciprocity
Family of orientation
Family of procreation
New World monkeys
11. 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)
Religion
Sondages
Social Darwinism
Mesopotamia
12. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Cultural Ecology
EB Tylor
Biosphere
13. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Hittites
Radcliffe-Brown
Hunter/Gatherers
mana
14. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Sumerians
Cultural relativism
Matrilineal Descent
Egyptology
15. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Alternatives
Lineage
Absolute time
Relative time
16. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Neolithic Technology
Genetic drift
Geosphere
17. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
mana
Biosphere
Quinceanera
Barbarism
18. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Legitimacy
Dating methods
Electromagnetic prospecting
Middle east farming
19. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Shaman
Lower Paleo Period
Poy Tang Lon
Hebrews
20. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Specialities
Referencial Symbol
Genetic drift
Relative time
21. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Nuclear Family
Cross-cousins
Linguistics
Condensed Symbol
22. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Natural selection
South American indians
Middle Paleo Period
Conspicuous Consumption
23. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Warlike people
Egypt
Sanction
Gene pool
24. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Cargo Cult
carbon-14 dating
Stimulus Diffusion
Phratry
25. 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
Applied Anthropology
Genetic drift
International Development
Upper Paleo period
26. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Totem
Agriculture
Negative Reciprocity
Mayan indians
27. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Sondages
Diffusion
Nuclear Family
Theory of organic evolution
28. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Specialities
carbon-14 dating
Gene migration
Nuclear Family
29. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Adaptation
Malinowski
Status
Horticulture
30. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Applied Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf
Geosphere
radiometric dating
31. 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)
Mauss
Legitimacy
Sondages
Revitalization
32. Things all people do the same way (language)
Stimulus Diffusion
Universalities
Intervention Anthropology
perforated edges
33. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Superposition
Greeks
radiometric dating
34. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Chiefdom
Allele frequency
Africa
Geerts
35. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
State
Asian farming
Family of procreation
Hebrews
36. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Kinship
Africa
Homo Erectus
Noosphere
37. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Bronze Age
South American indians
Greeks
Totem
38. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Polygamy
gene flow
Substantive Economics
phenotype
39. 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
Migration of Erectus
Cultural Anthropology
Allele frequency
40. 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
Nuclear Family
Physical Anthropology
Egyptology
41. Spread of something from one group to another
Class
Diffusion
Nistri periscope
Mendel's first principle of genetics
42. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Noosphere
Yanomamo Feasting
KhoiKhoi
Substantive Economics
43. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Olduvai Gorge
Superposition
Egyptian diffusion
Alternatives
44. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Phratry
Cargo Cult
Barbarism
Kroeber
45. Invented smelting of iron
Policy Research
Genpuku
Hittites
Ideal culture
46. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Lineage
James George Frazer
Mary Douglas Leakey
Neolithic Period
47. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Culture
Yanomamo
Mythology
Moieties
48. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Referencial Symbol
sharp edges
Savagery
Margaret Mead
49. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Production
Market Exchange
Genotypic Variations
Genetic Recombination
50. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Cargo Cult
Dead Sea scrolls
Writing
Africa