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DSST General Anthropology
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1. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
mana
Market Exchange
Moieties
Ethnology
2. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Myth
Hebrews
Aztec indians
Birth of Anthropology
3. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Redistribution
Olduvai Gorge
Pacific indians
4. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Writing
Warlike people
Unit of Kinship
Rite of passage
5. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Real Culture
Mesolithic Period
Tribe
6. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Java Man
Genotype
Cultural relativism
Clan
7. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Bronze Age
mana
Birth of Anthropology
Adaptation
8. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Neolithic Period
Hittites
New World monkeys
EB Tylor
9. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Referencial Symbol
Non-warlike people
Tribe
Pragmatics
10. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Mesopotamia
Pacific indians
Sapir-Whorf
Morphology
11. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
radiometric dating
Ethnography
Phonetics
Excavation
12. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Assyrians
polyandry
Animal domestication
pastoralism
13. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
James George Frazer
Rite of passage
Mesolithic Period
Cultural Anthropology
14. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Unilineal Descent
Applied Anthropology
Band
Levirate
15. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Rite of passage
Yanomamo
Nitrogenous Bases
Revitalization
16. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Cultural Resource Assessment
Diffusion
DNA
Java Man
17. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Egyptology
Genetic drift
Mutagen
Homo Erectus
18. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Upper Paleo period
Class
Anthropoids
19. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Functionalism
Warlike people
Franz Boas
Mary Douglas Leakey
20. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Crossing over
Referencial Symbol
prehistoric archaeology
Geerts
21. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Levirate
Chromosome
James George Frazer
old world monkeys
22. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Radcliffe-Brown
Semantics
Legitimacy
Olduvai Gorge
23. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
gene flow
Tributary Production
Franz Boas
Poy Tang Lon
24. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Mutation
Cultural Ecology
Animism
25. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
Homonids
Mesolithic Period
Animal domestication
26. 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'
Affinal kin
Barbarism
Homo Habilis
Hunter/Gatherers
27. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Clan
Cargo Cult
Mary Douglas Leakey
Applied Anthropology
28. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Civilization
Bronze Age
Kinship
Phonetics
29. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Civilization
Structural-functional
Policy Research
platyrrhini
30. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Allele frequency
Gene
Symbol
Taboo
31. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Ralph Lynton
Technology development research
Monogamy
carbon-14 dating
32. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
culture
Mary Douglas Leakey
Survival
Pacific indians
33. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Mesolithic Period
Magnetic prospecting
Monogamy
Qualitative Research
34. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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35. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Family of orientation
Geophysical prospecting
Egypt
Quantitative Research
36. (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
Dokimasi
Animism
Directed Cultural Change
WG Rivers
37. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Balanced Reciprocity
Gene
Nuclear Family
Semantics
38. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Social impact assessment
Kluckhohn
Neolithic Technology
Anthropometry
39. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
3 types of excavation
Mendelian population
Formal Economics
Asian farming
40. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Mesopotamia
Absolute time
Negative Reciprocity
Technology development research
41. 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
Unit of Kinship
Etic perspective
Status
Substantive Economics
42. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Ethnography
phenotype
Unilineal Descent
Allele
43. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Civilization
endogamy
Upper Paleo period
Culture
44. 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
phenotype
Family of procreation
DNA
Neanderthals
45. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Quantitative Research
Kluckhohn
Nistri periscope
Central American indians
46. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Market Exchange
Elsie Parsons
Yanomamo
European farming
47. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Ralph Lynton
Survival
Assyrians
Intervention Anthropology
48. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Genetic Recombination
Armchair Anthropologists
Anthropometry
Absolute time
49. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Cultural Ecology
3 types of excavation
Tribe
McLennan
50. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Anthropometry
Feudal System
Chiefdom
Dating methods