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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
State
Archaeology
American farming
Weber
2. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Unit of Kinship
Anthropology
European farming
sharp edges
3. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Levi-Strauss
Ideal culture
Religion
Anthropology
4. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Rite of passage
Levirate
Writing
Phonology
5. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Franz Boas
Radcliffe-Brown
Olduvai Gorge
Margaret Mead
6. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
mana
Taboo
gene flow
Cargo Cult
7. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Moieties
Neanderthals
Africa
perforated edges
8. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Policy Research
Cargo Cult
James George Frazer
9. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
Gene
Industrialization
Animism
perforated edges
10. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cognatic Descent
Shaman
James George Frazer
classical archaeology
11. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Cultural Ecology
Middle Paleo Period
Egyptology
12. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Status
Universalities
Yanomamo Feasting
13. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Kroeber
Cargo Cult
Allele frequency
Homonids
14. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Kindred
Hunter/Gatherers
Chiefdom
Genotypic Variations
15. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Geerts
Directed Cultural Change
Chromosome
Mutagen
16. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Anthropoids
Social practices
Ralph Lynton
Kluckhohn
17. Things all people do the same way (language)
Universalities
Geerts
Industrialization
Mendelian population
18. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Market Exchange
Birth of Anthropology
Clan
Mauss
19. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Sondages
Emile Durkheim
Unit of Kinship
Kluckhohn
20. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Survival
Etic perspective
Tribe
Alternatives
21. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Gene migration
Geophysical prospecting
State
Horticulture
22. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Cultural Evolution
perforated edges
Bands & Tribes
Biosphere
23. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Caste
Legitimacy
Cro-Magnon
prehistoric archaeology
24. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Cargo Cult
Leakey family
Homonids
Diffusion
25. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Excavation
Ideal culture
platyrrhini
26. 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
Modernization
Olduvai Gorge
Quantitative Research
Tributary Production
27. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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28. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Mauss
Civilization
Anthropometry
Cro-Magnon
29. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Nistri periscope
Franz Boas
American farming
30. 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)
Reciprocity
Malinowski
sharp edges
Geerts
31. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Chiefdom
Austrailia indians
Emile Durkheim
Middle east farming
32. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Neolithic Technology
Schliemann
Margaret Mead
Absolute time
33. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Cultural Ecology
Quantitative Research
babylonians
Greeks
34. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Migration of Erectus
Physical Anthropology
Genotypic Variations
Condensed Symbol
35. Ways to date artifacts
Catal Huyak
WG Rivers
Hunter/Gatherers
Dating methods
36. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
James George Frazer
State
Individual Peculiarities
Shaman
37. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Chiefdom
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Allele
Phonology
38. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Diffusion
Gens
Technology development research
Radcliffe-Brown
39. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Social Darwinism
Shaman
radiometric dating
Etic perspective
40. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Chromosome
Lower Paleo Period
Cargo Cult
41. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Alternatives
Cargo Cult
Band
Physical Anthropology
42. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Taboo
Superposition
Phonetics
43. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Technology development research
Family of orientation
Semantics
Phonetics
44. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Neolithic Period
Stimulus Diffusion
Cro-Magnon
Ethnography
45. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Anthropoids
Class
Industrialization
Dokimasi
46. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Migration of Erectus
Franz Boas
State
Pacific indians
47. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Birth of Anthropology
Dating methods
Warlike people
Kroeber
48. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
culture
Family of orientation
Structural-functional
Social Class Manifestation
49. 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.
Genotype
Upper Paleo period
International Development
Natural selection
50. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Market Exchange
Crossing over
Status
Structural-functional