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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Malinowski
Divorce
Status
Genpuku
2. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Levi-Strauss
DNA
Catal Huyak
Social impact assessment
3. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
3 types of excavation
Mayan indians
Margaret Mead
Franz Boas
4. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
James George Frazer
husbandry
Chromosome
Hunter/Gatherers
5. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Ritual
Stimulus Diffusion
DNA
Agriculture
6. 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]
Status
Cargo Cult
Franz Boas
Legitimacy
7. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Kroeber
Homo Habilis
Bronze Age
Chiefdom
8. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Warlike people
Monogamy
Cargo Cult
Phonetics
9. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Cargo Cult
Morphology
Sumerians
3 types of excavation
10. 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
Levi-Strauss
Substantive Economics
Hunter/Gatherers
Alternatives
11. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Qualitative Research
Redistribution
Australopithecus
Social Class Manifestation
12. 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)
Feudal System
Java Man
Social Darwinism
Social impact assessment
13. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Phratry
Individual Peculiarities
Ethnocentrism
Balanced Reciprocity
14. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Chiefdom
State
Hunter/Gatherers
15. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Genetic drift
State
Market Exchange
Margaret Mead
16. 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.
Civilization
Cargo Cult
Margaret Mead
Armchair Anthropologists
17. 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'
Matrilineal Descent
Diffusion
Homo Habilis
prosimians
18. Things all people do the same way (language)
Benedict
3 types of excavation
Universalities
DNA
19. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Specialities
Unilineal Descent
sharp edges
Mayan indians
20. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Gene pool
Genetic Recombination
Unit of Kinship
Band
21. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Greeks
polished stone
Anthropology
Revitalization
22. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
prehistoric archaeology
Quantitative Research
Conspicuous Consumption
23. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Neolithic Technology
Stimulus Diffusion
Sondages
24. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Mesopotamia
Kluckhohn
Schliemann
Neolithic Technology
25. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
Mendel's second principle of genetics
European farming
Superposition
prehistoric archaeology
26. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
prosimians
Cargo Cult
Social impact assessment
Cultural Ecology
27. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
carbon-14 dating
Cargo Cult
Qualitative Research
Social impact assessment
28. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Structuralism
Status
Superposition
Yanomamo
29. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
Leakey family
Mendel's first principle of genetics
International Development
30. 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
Family of orientation
New World monkeys
Redistribution
polyandry
31. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Sondages
Potlatch
Cognatic Descent
Elsie Parsons
32. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
mana
radiometric dating
Australopithecus
chimpanzee
33. 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.
Structuralism
Negative Reciprocity
North American Indians
Family of procreation
34. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Hittites
Morphology
Assyrians
Neolithic Period
35. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Culture
Nistri periscope
Physical Anthropology
Genetic drift
36. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Crossing over
Matrilineal Descent
carbon-14 dating
classical archaeology
37. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Dokimasi
Egyptian diffusion
Natural selection
Hebrews
38. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
State
Levy-Bruhl
Natural selection
Balanced Reciprocity
39. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Specialities
Geerts
Ethnology
Upper Paleo period
40. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Theory of organic evolution
Rite of passage
EB Tylor
Levirate
41. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Condensed Symbol
Class
Etic perspective
Bands & Tribes
42. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Writing
Survival
Functionalism
James George Frazer
43. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Mendelian population
Shaman
Monarchy
Individual Peculiarities
44. (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
Cultural Ecology
Hunter/Gatherers
Fieldwork
International Development
45. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Chiefdom
Shaman
Allele
sharp edges
46. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Hebrews
Poy Tang Lon
KhoiKhoi
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
47. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistics
James George Frazer
Mesolithic Period
48. Invented smelting of iron
Symbol
Hittites
Physical Anthropology
Genotype
49. 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.
prehistoric archaeology
3 types of excavation
Horticulture
Functionalism
50. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Allele frequency
Potlatch
Franz Boas
Band
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