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DSST General Anthropology
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1. (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
Tribe
Animism
Survival
Java Man
2. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Hittites
Ethnography
Negative Reciprocity
Sondages
3. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Geosphere
Phratry
Feudal System
Cultural Resource Assessment
4. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Phratry
Fieldwork
Kluckhohn
Stimulus Diffusion
5. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
American farming
Social practices
WG Rivers
Peking Man
6. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Family of procreation
primates
Mutation
Linguistics
7. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
African Economic Organization
Agriculture
Mayan indians
Yanomamo Feasting
8. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Nitrogenous Bases
Anthropoids
Etic perspective
Phases of rituals
9. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Relative time
Symbol
Quantitative Research
Neolithic Technology
10. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
Radcliffe-Brown
Generalized Reciprocity
Rite of passage
11. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Directed Cultural Change
chimpanzee
Aztec indians
Modernization
12. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Petrie
Genetic drift
International Development
Catal Huyak
13. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Survival
Evaluation research
Warlike people
Sanction
14. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotype
Barbarism
Diffusion
Industrialization
15. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Biosphere
chimpanzee
Caste
Peking Man
16. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Levirate
Non-warlike people
Social impact assessment
Benedict
17. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
3 types of excavation
Polygamy
Gens
18. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
European farming
Production
Dating methods
19. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Olduvai Gorge
Mary Douglas Leakey
Myth
Phonology
20. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Chiefdom
Cultivation
Alternatives
Class
21. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Gene migration
Survival
Neolithic Technology
Civilization
22. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Modernization
Java Man
old world monkeys
Anthropometry
23. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Genpuku
Lower Paleo Period
Barbarism
Magnetic prospecting
24. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Electromagnetic prospecting
pastoralism
Diffusion
Benedict
25. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
Mendelian population
homonoids
War
Malinowski
26. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
North American Indians
Austrailia indians
Rite of passage
Franz Boas
27. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Warlike people
Benedict
Genpuku
prosimians
28. Spread of something from one group to another
Diffusion
Feudal System
State
Generalized Reciprocity
29. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Cross-cousins
Animism
Unilineal Descent
Hammurabi
30. 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
primates
Middle east farming
classical archaeology
Ideal culture
31. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Mauss
Culture
Nuclear Family
Family of procreation
32. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Quantitative Research
Class
Upper Paleo period
Birth of Anthropology
33. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Bands & Tribes
polished stone
War
James George Frazer
34. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Malinowski
Unit of Kinship
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Homo Erectus
35. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Chiefdom
phenotype
culture
36. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Moieties
Stratigraphy
Mythology
Clan
37. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Emile Durkheim
Specialities
Balanced Reciprocity
Assyrians
38. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Mary Douglas Leakey
Legitimacy
Mutagen
Chromosome
39. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Homo Erectus
prosimians
Dead Sea scrolls
40. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Genetic drift
pastoralism
Franz Boas
Ideal culture
41. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Biosphere
Geerts
Franz Boas
Mesopotamia
42. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Gens
Polygamy
Real Culture
Ethnocentrism
43. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Emic perspective
Paleolithic period
Australopithecus
44. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Agriculture
DNA
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Kindred
45. Family that raised you
Phases of rituals
Family of orientation
Non-warlike people
Hittites
46. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Dokimasi
Mutagen
State
International Development
47. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Allele
Java Man
Phratry
polyandry
48. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Structural-functional
Migration of Erectus
Diffusion
African Economic Organization
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
Diffusion
Substantive Economics
Franz Boas
Egyptology
50. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Non-warlike people
Middle Paleo Period
Ritual
Levi-Strauss