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DSST General Anthropology
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1. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
EB Tylor
American farming
pastoralism
Biosphere
2. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Dokimasi
Reciprocity
Olduvai Gorge
Alternatives
3. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Chiefdom
Ritual
platyrrhini
Anthropoids
4. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Cargo Cult
Austrailia indians
Survival
Ethnocentrism
5. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
KhoiKhoi
Polygamy
primates
Hebrews
6. 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).
Phonetics
Referencial Symbol
Syntax
Unit of Kinship
7. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Yanomamo Feasting
Civilization
Radcliffe-Brown
Savagery
8. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
Clan
Yanomamo
Cultural Anthropology
9. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Aztec indians
Unilineal Descent
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Sanction
10. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Directed Cultural Change
Social impact assessment
Formal Economics
11. Relatives through marriage
Affinal kin
Africa
Sanction
Radcliffe-Brown
12. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Theory of organic evolution
Matrilineal Descent
Totem
Yanomamo Feasting
13. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)
Social Darwinism
Elsie Parsons
Neanderthals
Horticulture
14. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Homo Habilis
Market Exchange
Petrie
Mythology
15. Determining the success of a project
Civilization
Margaret Mead
Geophysical prospecting
Evaluation research
16. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mauss
Phratry
Real Culture
exogamy
17. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Family of procreation
perforated edges
Middle Paleo Period
Conspicuous Consumption
18. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
polished stone
Assyrians
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Nistri periscope
19. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Cultural relativism
Kroeber
Stratigraphy
North American Indians
20. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Levirate
Nitrogenous Bases
Ethnography
Homo Erectus
21. 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.
Linguistics
Egypt
Cultural Evolution
Hammurabi
22. (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
Kluckhohn
Taboo
Hunter/Gatherers
Dokimasi
23. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Feudal System
Divorce
Migration of Erectus
24. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Ralph Lynton
Anthropoids
Genetic drift
Excavation
25. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
North American Indians
Ideal culture
Phases of rituals
Individual Peculiarities
26. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Armchair Anthropologists
Band
27. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Levi-Strauss
Generalized Reciprocity
Pragmatics
28. Thinkers: linguistics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Quinceanera
Hammurabi
Genpuku
29. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Unilineal Descent
Archaeology
Culture
30. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Taboo
Quantitative Research
Substantive Economics
Asian farming
31. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Balanced Reciprocity
Malinowski
Phonology
Java Man
32. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Excavation
Etic perspective
DNA
Hammurabi
33. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Modernization
War
International Development
Nitrogenous Bases
34. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Generalized Reciprocity
chimpanzee
Revitalization
carbon-14 dating
35. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Middle east farming
Franz Boas
Diffusion
Natural selection
36. 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
Ethnocentrism
Legitimacy
Applied Anthropology
Cultural Evolution
37. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Phases of rituals
Functionalism
phenotype
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
38. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Greeks
Qualitative Research
Cultural Anthropology
Alternatives
39. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Crossing over
Middle east farming
Lower Paleo Period
Noosphere
40. (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)
Rite of passage
Crossing over
Mythology
Neolithic Period
41. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Social Darwinism
Biosphere
Religion
3 types of excavation
42. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Java Man
Ethnology
Reciprocity
43. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Genetic Recombination
Mary Douglas Leakey
homonoids
North American Indians
44. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Kinship
polished stone
DNA
Franz Boas
45. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cultural Anthropology
Biosphere
Substantive Economics
Cargo Cult
46. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Substantive Economics
Production
Homonids
Mesolithic Period
47. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Rite of passage
Civilization
Cargo Cult
Family of orientation
48. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Gene migration
Linguistics
Hunter/Gatherers
Chromosome
49. 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
New World monkeys
Substantive Economics
KhoiKhoi
Social Darwinism
50. 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
Policy Research
Class
3 types of excavation
carbon-14 dating