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DSST General Anthropology
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1. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Absolute time
Excavation
Ideal culture
Individual Peculiarities
2. 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.
Cargo Cult
Ethnology
Benedict
Structuralism
3. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Quinceanera
Survival
Cultural relativism
Chiefdom
4. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Yanomamo Feasting
Revitalization
Gens
Status
5. 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.
Warlike people
WG Rivers
classical archaeology
Natural selection
6. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Radcliffe-Brown
Neanderthals
Homonids
7. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
babylonians
Morphology
Java Man
sharp edges
8. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Cross-cousins
Neolithic Technology
Unilineal Descent
Chromosome
9. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Shaman
Hebrews
Neolithic Period
Mayan indians
10. 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
Gene migration
Cultural Ecology
Religion
Neanderthals
11. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Phases of rituals
Taboo
American farming
Hebrews
12. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
primates
Theory of organic evolution
Phonetics
13. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Sondages
Lower Paleo Period
phenotype
carbon-14 dating
14. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Ethnology
Polygamy
Birth of Anthropology
Specialities
15. 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
Gens
Applied Anthropology
Cargo Cult
Real Culture
16. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Mayan indians
Clan
Production
Dead Sea scrolls
17. 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.
Lower Paleo Period
homonoids
3 types of excavation
Totem
18. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Phases of rituals
Band
Genetic drift
Social Darwinism
19. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Neolithic Period
Genotype
Genetic drift
Homonids
20. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Matrilineal Descent
Adaptation
Leakey family
European farming
21. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Allele frequency
culture
Electromagnetic prospecting
Franz Boas
22. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
McLennan
homonoids
Yanomamo Feasting
WG Rivers
23. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Olduvai Gorge
Caste
Elsie Parsons
Migration of Erectus
24. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
State
culture
Applied Anthropology
Australopithecus
25. 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.
Yanomamo Feasting
phenotype
Elsie Parsons
Cultural Evolution
26. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Warlike people
Africa
McLennan
Quinceanera
27. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Adaptation
Cargo Cult
Genpuku
Production
28. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
Genotypic Variations
DNA
EB Tylor
29. 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).
Gene migration
Unit of Kinship
Absolute time
Ethnocentrism
30. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Polygamy
Catal Huyak
Structural-functional
Animal domestication
31. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Schliemann
Fieldwork
African Economic Organization
State
32. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Monogamy
Sapir-Whorf
babylonians
Gene
33. 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
old world monkeys
Greeks
34. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Stratigraphy
Gene pool
Industrialization
prosimians
35. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Diffusion
Tributary Production
Sumerians
polyandry
36. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Sapir-Whorf
Market Exchange
3 types of excavation
37. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Austrailia indians
Social Darwinism
Formal Economics
Directed Cultural Change
38. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
pastoralism
babylonians
Agriculture
Hammurabi
39. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Nuclear Family
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Pacific indians
Diffusion
40. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Neolithic Technology
DNA
Ethnology
Ziggurat
41. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
sharp edges
Cognatic Descent
Unilineal Descent
Chiefdom
42. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Pragmatics
Technology development research
Central American indians
pastoralism
43. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Genotypic Variations
African Economic Organization
Cargo Cult
Evaluation research
44. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Crossing over
Cross-cousins
Pacific indians
Mythology
45. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Technology development research
Excavation
Redistribution
Sapir-Whorf
46. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
carbon-14 dating
Superposition
Policy Research
Emic perspective
47. Traces back to ONE person
Stratigraphy
EB Tylor
Lineage
Formal Economics
48. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Functionalism
Warlike people
Savagery
Animal domestication
49. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Barbarism
Mutation
Hunter/Gatherers
Ritual
50. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Neolithic Technology
Poy Tang Lon
Affinal kin
Negative Reciprocity