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DSST General Anthropology
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1. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Alternatives
Culture
Conspicuous Consumption
Industrialization
2. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Lower Paleo Period
Cultural Ecology
Gene pool
Ritual
3. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Animal domestication
Paleolithic period
North American Indians
Gene
4. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Generalized Reciprocity
pastoralism
Social Class Manifestation
5. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
McLennan
mana
Modernization
6. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
War
Cultural relativism
Religion
Modernization
7. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Morphology
Crossing over
Paleolithic period
Balanced Reciprocity
8. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Anthropology
Religion
Levi-Strauss
Morphology
9. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
prehistoric archaeology
primates
KhoiKhoi
10. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
exogamy
Gene
Levi-Strauss
Mesolithic Period
11. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Archaeology
Central American indians
Fieldwork
Mary Douglas Leakey
12. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Egypt
Mythology
Diffusion
Chiefdom
13. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Myth
Magnetic prospecting
Clan
Divorce
14. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
polished stone
Mendel's first principle of genetics
State
prehistoric archaeology
15. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Genetic drift
exogamy
Benedict
sharp edges
16. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Monogamy
Structural-functional
Egypt
radiometric dating
17. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Individual Peculiarities
Yanomamo
Kindred
Mendel's third principle of genetics
18. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Middle Paleo Period
pastoralism
Kinship
chimpanzee
19. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Quantitative Research
Dead Sea scrolls
Rite of passage
Phratry
20. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Emic perspective
Allele
James George Frazer
State
21. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Symbol
Physical Anthropology
Status
22. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Sanction
Redistribution
Homo Habilis
Etic perspective
23. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Symbol
Social practices
McLennan
Genetic drift
24. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Schliemann
Absolute time
Market Exchange
Class
25. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Homo Erectus
Civilization
radiometric dating
Excavation
26. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Cultural Resource Assessment
European farming
Dokimasi
Social Class Manifestation
27. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Allele frequency
Poy Tang Lon
Chromosome
Shaman
28. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Theory of organic evolution
Relative time
Australopithecus
Bronze Age
29. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Noosphere
Survival
Real Culture
Mutation
30. 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
Formal Economics
Weber
Quantitative Research
Chiefdom
31. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
African Economic Organization
Class
perforated edges
Stratigraphy
32. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Cultural Anthropology
Petrie
Ethnocentrism
Warlike people
33. (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
Animism
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Sumerians
Individual Peculiarities
34. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Redistribution
Condensed Symbol
Technology development research
Australopithecus
35. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Modernization
polished stone
Asian farming
Geosphere
36. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Rite of passage
Social impact assessment
Anthropometry
Emic perspective
37. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Status
Ralph Lynton
Ethnocentrism
Hammurabi
38. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Negative Reciprocity
Directed Cultural Change
Monarchy
Gene
39. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Mutation
old world monkeys
Lineage
40. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Sumerians
Crossing over
Mythology
Neolithic Technology
41. 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
Homonids
Technology development research
Neanderthals
Yanomamo Feasting
42. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Potlatch
Kroeber
Absolute time
pastoralism
43. Thinker: social stratification
Sondages
Mythology
Weber
Etic perspective
44. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Anthropometry
Middle east farming
Linguistics
sharp edges
45. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Polygamy
Etic perspective
Quinceanera
Cargo Cult
46. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Quinceanera
Geophysical prospecting
Caste
Animal domestication
47. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
culture
Bands & Tribes
Sumerians
Morphology
48. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Condensed Symbol
Nuclear Family
Nistri periscope
New World monkeys
49. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Ideal culture
Geerts
Bands & Tribes
Cro-Magnon
50. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Noosphere
Chiefdom
Family of procreation
Peking Man
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