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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Birth of Anthropology
3 types of excavation
Cultural relativism
Catal Huyak
2. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Geosphere
Anthropometry
Cro-Magnon
Egypt
3. (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
Assyrians
Civilization
Animism
perforated edges
4. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Cro-Magnon
Religion
Cultural Resource Assessment
5. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Totem
Relative time
Universalities
Allele frequency
6. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Emile Durkheim
Divorce
Gene pool
Genotypic Variations
7. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Cargo Cult
Condensed Symbol
Mendelian population
Pacific indians
8. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Pragmatics
perforated edges
Condensed Symbol
Electromagnetic prospecting
9. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
European farming
Central American indians
Ziggurat
Horticulture
10. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Genotype
Radcliffe-Brown
Barbarism
gene flow
11. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Social impact assessment
Relative time
Natural selection
Linguistics
12. Determining the success of a project
radiometric dating
Evaluation research
Rite of passage
Superposition
13. Spread of something from one group to another
Diffusion
Assyrians
Stratigraphy
culture
14. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Universalities
Ideal culture
Horticulture
Egyptian diffusion
15. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
Warlike people
Yanomamo Feasting
radiometric dating
Natural selection
16. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Schliemann
mana
Genotype
Policy Research
17. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Paleolithic period
James George Frazer
Geosphere
Substantive Economics
18. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Structuralism
Hebrews
Middle east farming
Social practices
19. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
babylonians
Franz Boas
Semantics
Intervention Anthropology
20. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Middle Paleo Period
Kindred
Agriculture
Ritual
21. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Ralph Lynton
Warlike people
Structural-functional
Technology development research
22. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Ralph Lynton
Geosphere
Neolithic Technology
23. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Cultural Anthropology
Market Exchange
mana
Formal Economics
24. 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.
Pacific indians
State
Etic perspective
Status
25. 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
Kluckhohn
Chromosome
Applied Anthropology
Greeks
26. 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
Electromagnetic prospecting
Class
Quinceanera
Elsie Parsons
27. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Gene migration
Real Culture
Benedict
Geerts
28. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Adaptation
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Feudal System
Production
29. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Revitalization
Social impact assessment
Schliemann
South American indians
30. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
Levi-Strauss
African Economic Organization
Phonology
31. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Cro-Magnon
Mayan indians
Adaptation
Bronze Age
32. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Barbarism
prosimians
Nuclear Family
Symbol
33. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Middle Paleo Period
sharp edges
exogamy
Animal domestication
34. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Mesolithic Period
Monogamy
Social impact assessment
Applied Anthropology
35. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Assyrians
Directed Cultural Change
Emic perspective
Monarchy
36. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
International Development
Mayan indians
Nitrogenous Bases
Catal Huyak
37. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
DNA
Ideal culture
Animism
Mayan indians
38. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Cognatic Descent
Mythology
polyandry
Phonology
39. Thinkers: linguistics
Agriculture
Olduvai Gorge
Theory of organic evolution
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
40. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Generalized Reciprocity
State
Pragmatics
Hebrews
41. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
prosimians
Ethnocentrism
Catal Huyak
Petrie
42. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Potlatch
classical archaeology
Homonids
Ziggurat
43. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Absolute time
Shaman
Excavation
Modernization
44. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Cargo Cult
Chiefdom
culture
Dating methods
45. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Sanction
polyandry
Mutation
Real Culture
46. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Chromosome
Stimulus Diffusion
perforated edges
Phonetics
47. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
prosimians
McLennan
Paleolithic period
Warlike people
48. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Cultural Ecology
Tribe
Conspicuous Consumption
Unit of Kinship
49. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Archaeology
Ethnology
Specialities
Gens
50. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
polished stone
Animal domestication
Unilineal Descent
Monogamy