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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Physical Anthropology
Social impact assessment
Negative Reciprocity
International Development
2. 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.
perforated edges
Ritual
Armchair Anthropologists
Birth of Anthropology
3. 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)
Superposition
Phratry
Ralph Lynton
Social Class Manifestation
4. 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
Class
Hammurabi
Legitimacy
Culture
5. 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)
Revitalization
Fieldwork
Aztec indians
Birth of Anthropology
6. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Natural selection
Stimulus Diffusion
phenotype
7. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Referencial Symbol
Electromagnetic prospecting
Assyrians
Pacific indians
8. 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.
Pragmatics
Cross-cousins
Structuralism
Elsie Parsons
9. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Australopithecus
Kluckhohn
Horticulture
Hebrews
10. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Clan
primates
Monarchy
Ralph Lynton
11. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
husbandry
Balanced Reciprocity
Civilization
Cro-Magnon
12. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Neolithic Period
Moieties
Animism
Rite of passage
13. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Excavation
Peking Man
Phonetics
14. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
State
Excavation
South American indians
Neolithic Technology
15. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
DNA
Savagery
Potlatch
Austrailia indians
16. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Upper Paleo period
3 types of excavation
Catal Huyak
Nistri periscope
17. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Religion
Phases of rituals
Stimulus Diffusion
Mesopotamia
18. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Genetic drift
polished stone
Cargo Cult
Mesopotamia
19. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Animism
Status
Civilization
Homo Erectus
20. Things all people do the same way (language)
Cultural Resource Assessment
Shaman
Upper Paleo period
Universalities
21. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Shaman
Mauss
Catal Huyak
Warlike people
22. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Bronze Age
Egyptology
KhoiKhoi
Non-warlike people
23. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Quantitative Research
Ziggurat
Chiefdom
Diffusion
24. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Semantics
Technology development research
Gene
Matrilineal Descent
25. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Hittites
Redistribution
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Migration of Erectus
26. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Intervention Anthropology
Anthropoids
husbandry
Real Culture
27. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Poy Tang Lon
Affinal kin
Dating methods
Culture
28. 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.
Mendelian population
Cognatic Descent
prehistoric archaeology
Birth of Anthropology
29. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
pastoralism
Intervention Anthropology
Genetic Recombination
North American Indians
30. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Anthropometry
Etic perspective
Chromosome
Egypt
31. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Radcliffe-Brown
Caste
Phases of rituals
DNA
32. Thinker: social stratification
Social Class Manifestation
pastoralism
Weber
Mythology
33. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Genetic drift
chimpanzee
Real Culture
Unilineal Descent
34. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Modernization
Family of procreation
Assyrians
Structural-functional
35. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Reciprocity
European farming
Hittites
Chiefdom
36. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
3 types of excavation
American farming
Cro-Magnon
Status
37. Relatives through marriage
Condensed Symbol
Anthropometry
Affinal kin
Allele
38. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Australopithecus
Cultural relativism
Middle east farming
Culture
39. 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
Feudal System
Sondages
Neanderthals
Chiefdom
40. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Nitrogenous Bases
Sanction
Mauss
Production
41. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Mayan indians
Crossing over
Dokimasi
Social impact assessment
42. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
Shaman
James George Frazer
Adaptation
43. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Horticulture
Mary Douglas Leakey
Alternatives
Family of orientation
44. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'
Leakey family
Technology development research
Homo Habilis
Mauss
45. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Agriculture
Quinceanera
Religion
Dead Sea scrolls
46. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
phenotype
Kinship
Yanomamo Feasting
Gene
47. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
platyrrhini
Dead Sea scrolls
Genpuku
Intervention Anthropology
48. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Levirate
Migration of Erectus
Divorce
Middle Paleo Period
49. Traces back to ONE person
Mendel's first principle of genetics
sharp edges
Biosphere
Lineage
50. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Technology development research
Pacific indians
Diffusion
Sondages
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