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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)






2. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance






3. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






4. 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.






5. 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)






6. Collecting community data for use by development planners






7. 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)






8. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






9. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






10. 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






11. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew






12. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






13. (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






14. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






15. Things all people do the same way (language)






16. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






17. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






18. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






19. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






20. 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.






21. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






22. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.






23. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






24. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]






25. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






26. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






27. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






28. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups






29. 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.






30. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






31. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.






32. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






33. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






34. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






35. Spread of something from one group to another






36. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






37. 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.






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.






39. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement






40. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.






41. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






42. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






43. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






44. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.






45. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






46. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'






47. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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48. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






49. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






50. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation