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DSST General Anthropology
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1. <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
Etic perspective
pastoralism
Upper Paleo period
Olduvai Gorge
2. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
3 types of excavation
Chiefdom
Sanction
Religion
3. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
platyrrhini
Intervention Anthropology
carbon-14 dating
Potlatch
4. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Bronze Age
Neolithic Technology
classical archaeology
Social Darwinism
5. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
3 types of excavation
exogamy
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Religion
6. Traces back to ONE person
Relative time
Pragmatics
Lineage
Band
7. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Matrilineal Descent
Genetic drift
Hebrews
Egyptian diffusion
8. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Barbarism
Bronze Age
Emile Durkheim
Asian farming
9. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
Social Darwinism
Greeks
Magnetic prospecting
10. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Chromosome
husbandry
Functionalism
International Development
11. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Monarchy
Gene migration
Unit of Kinship
WG Rivers
12. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
endogamy
Benedict
Kluckhohn
Alternatives
13. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Mary Douglas Leakey
culture
prehistoric archaeology
14. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Production
Theory of organic evolution
Mesopotamia
Conspicuous Consumption
15. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Gene pool
Totem
Noosphere
Chiefdom
16. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Quinceanera
Structuralism
Diffusion
Band
17. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Directed Cultural Change
Anthropometry
New World monkeys
18. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Sumerians
Qualitative Research
phenotype
Mesolithic Period
19. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Homo Erectus
gene flow
Chiefdom
Egyptian diffusion
20. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Structuralism
Lineage
African Economic Organization
Levi-Strauss
21. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Pacific indians
Myth
Birth of Anthropology
Africa
22. 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.
Structural-functional
Civilization
chimpanzee
Homo Habilis
23. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Status
Genotype
Magnetic prospecting
24. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Family of procreation
War
Social Darwinism
endogamy
25. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
prosimians
Alternatives
Conspicuous Consumption
Agriculture
26. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Noosphere
sharp edges
Austrailia indians
27. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Cro-Magnon
Excavation
McLennan
Gens
28. 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.
Tributary Production
Asian farming
Natural selection
Kroeber
29. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Cognatic Descent
Cro-Magnon
Yanomamo Feasting
Chromosome
30. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Schliemann
Birth of Anthropology
Unit of Kinship
Mutagen
31. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
platyrrhini
Industrialization
Schliemann
32. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Non-warlike people
Leakey family
polyandry
33. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Gens
Cognatic Descent
polyandry
34. 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
Applied Anthropology
Pacific indians
endogamy
James George Frazer
35. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
State
Shaman
Social impact assessment
Directed Cultural Change
36. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Market Exchange
Family of orientation
Egyptology
Genotypic Variations
37. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Australopithecus
Fieldwork
Sanction
Taboo
38. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
pastoralism
endogamy
Animal domestication
Geophysical prospecting
39. 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]
Reciprocity
Genetic Recombination
Dating methods
Franz Boas
40. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Totem
International Development
Rite of passage
41. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Kluckhohn
Conspicuous Consumption
Technology development research
Animal domestication
42. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
sharp edges
Stratigraphy
Cargo Cult
43. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Individual Peculiarities
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Anthropometry
Survival
44. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Genetic Recombination
Superposition
Anthropoids
Social practices
45. 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)
Malinowski
American farming
Levirate
Allele
46. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
husbandry
Substantive Economics
South American indians
47. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Emile Durkheim
carbon-14 dating
Anthropoids
perforated edges
48. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Dokimasi
DNA
Mesopotamia
American farming
49. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Excavation
North American Indians
War
Modernization
50. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Social Class Manifestation
phenotype
Diffusion
Structural-functional
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