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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
African Economic Organization
Unit of Kinship
Totem
2. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Cultural Anthropology
Geerts
Unit of Kinship
radiometric dating
3. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
International Development
Margaret Mead
Mary Douglas Leakey
Syntax
4. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Potlatch
Catal Huyak
Emic perspective
Lineage
5. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Mary Douglas Leakey
Linguistics
Monarchy
Theory of organic evolution
6. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
radiometric dating
Physical Anthropology
Diffusion
Non-warlike people
7. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Savagery
Superposition
Bands & Tribes
State
8. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Structuralism
Australopithecus
Phonology
Mary Douglas Leakey
9. 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
Nistri periscope
Phonetics
Formal Economics
Myth
10. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Monogamy
Franz Boas
Dating methods
11. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Homonids
Sanction
Yanomamo
Egyptology
12. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
European farming
Petrie
Cross-cousins
Monarchy
13. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Diffusion
Excavation
Gens
Levirate
14. 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)
Cargo Cult
Revitalization
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Structural-functional
15. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Matrilineal Descent
Mendelian population
Etic perspective
Moieties
16. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Ideal culture
Shaman
Sumerians
Nitrogenous Bases
17. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Lineage
Diffusion
polished stone
Biosphere
18. 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.
Armchair Anthropologists
Tributary Production
Religion
Homonids
19. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Anthropometry
Feudal System
Mayan indians
Quinceanera
20. Traces back to ONE person
Kroeber
Mythology
Mauss
Lineage
21. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Theory of organic evolution
Sondages
Nistri periscope
Schliemann
22. 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.
Savagery
prehistoric archaeology
Chiefdom
Quinceanera
23. <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
Upper Paleo period
Negative Reciprocity
Substantive Economics
phenotype
24. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Margaret Mead
Individual Peculiarities
Australopithecus
Kindred
25. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
prehistoric archaeology
platyrrhini
Divorce
Cargo Cult
26. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Structural-functional
Individual Peculiarities
Substantive Economics
Sumerians
27. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Gene migration
KhoiKhoi
Middle east farming
Greeks
28. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Cargo Cult
perforated edges
Radcliffe-Brown
Middle east farming
29. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
3 types of excavation
Market Exchange
Agriculture
Dokimasi
30. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
Pacific indians
Condensed Symbol
Chiefdom
31. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Ethnology
culture
Conspicuous Consumption
32. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Middle Paleo Period
Sumerians
Bronze Age
Mendel's first principle of genetics
33. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Ideal culture
Phratry
Kindred
Relative time
34. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Barbarism
husbandry
Quinceanera
Franz Boas
35. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Allele
Legitimacy
Mauss
Lineage
36. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Sanction
Savagery
Myth
Quantitative Research
37. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Phonology
New World monkeys
Benedict
Hebrews
38. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Cargo Cult
State
Divorce
Industrialization
39. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Poy Tang Lon
Java Man
WG Rivers
Central American indians
40. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Social Darwinism
Ethnology
Negative Reciprocity
chimpanzee
41. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Superposition
Mary Douglas Leakey
Radcliffe-Brown
Unit of Kinship
42. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Animism
Cross-cousins
Levy-Bruhl
Paleolithic period
43. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Mesopotamia
Bands & Tribes
Morphology
Radcliffe-Brown
44. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Revitalization
platyrrhini
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Egyptian diffusion
45. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Feudal System
Cultural Anthropology
Social impact assessment
Homo Habilis
46. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Yanomamo
Divorce
Lineage
Family of procreation
47. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Production
Market Exchange
New World monkeys
Gene pool
48. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Neanderthals
Referencial Symbol
Phonetics
Religion
49. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Survival
Ethnography
pastoralism
Sumerians
50. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Poy Tang Lon
gene flow
Natural selection
sharp edges