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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Invented smelting of iron
Policy Research
Gene
Hittites
Semantics
2. (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
Shaman
Mesopotamia
Hunter/Gatherers
Real Culture
3. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Balanced Reciprocity
Moieties
Ethnocentrism
Leakey family
4. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
husbandry
sharp edges
Catal Huyak
Gens
5. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Sapir-Whorf
EB Tylor
Africa
babylonians
6. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Taboo
Homo Erectus
North American Indians
James George Frazer
7. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Symbol
Bronze Age
African Economic Organization
Gene pool
8. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Chromosome
3 types of excavation
Anthropology
platyrrhini
9. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Formal Economics
Poy Tang Lon
WG Rivers
Sanction
10. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Emile Durkheim
Caste
James George Frazer
Bands & Tribes
11. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Status
polished stone
Monogamy
Kindred
12. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Cognatic Descent
Greeks
old world monkeys
Syntax
13. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Applied Anthropology
old world monkeys
International Development
classical archaeology
14. 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)
Elsie Parsons
Cro-Magnon
Social Darwinism
Rite of passage
15. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
State
Benedict
Rite of passage
Excavation
16. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Unit of Kinship
Fieldwork
Magnetic prospecting
17. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Egyptian diffusion
State
Genpuku
Leakey family
18. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
South American indians
Tributary Production
Ritual
Pragmatics
19. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Religion
Symbol
Monogamy
Mesopotamia
20. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
Warlike people
Referencial Symbol
Superposition
21. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Civilization
Unilineal Descent
WG Rivers
Mutagen
22. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Franz Boas
WG Rivers
State
23. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Religion
Java Man
Universalities
Cultural Ecology
24. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Warlike people
Gens
Tribe
Egyptian diffusion
25. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Clan
Petrie
American farming
McLennan
26. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Malinowski
culture
Birth of Anthropology
Sumerians
27. 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)
Cultural Resource Assessment
Malinowski
Peking Man
Directed Cultural Change
28. Things all people do the same way (language)
Universalities
Symbol
Agriculture
Horticulture
29. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Chiefdom
Yanomamo
Agriculture
Hammurabi
30. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Superposition
Hammurabi
Sanction
African Economic Organization
31. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
Matrilineal Descent
Allele frequency
Armchair Anthropologists
Neanderthals
32. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Social practices
War
WG Rivers
Kluckhohn
33. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Lower Paleo Period
Catal Huyak
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
McLennan
34. 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'
Unilineal Descent
Dead Sea scrolls
Homo Habilis
Structuralism
35. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Cro-Magnon
Dokimasi
Class
Bronze Age
36. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Family of procreation
Etic perspective
Phonetics
Animal domestication
37. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
polished stone
Ritual
Status
Ethnography
38. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Neolithic Period
Semantics
Social practices
Mutagen
39. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
Balanced Reciprocity
Survival
Warlike people
40. 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
mana
Cargo Cult
Class
Social Class Manifestation
41. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Biosphere
Substantive Economics
Redistribution
culture
42. Thinkers: linguistics
3 types of excavation
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Band
Gene pool
43. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Yanomamo Feasting
Homo Habilis
Genetic Recombination
Chiefdom
44. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Geosphere
Universalities
Noosphere
Phratry
45. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
culture
African Economic Organization
Specialities
Armchair Anthropologists
46. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Bands & Tribes
Non-warlike people
Dead Sea scrolls
polyandry
47. <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
Upper Paleo period
Theory of organic evolution
Family of procreation
Animism
48. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Social practices
phenotype
Austrailia indians
Anthropometry
49. 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)
Divorce
sharp edges
Civilization
KhoiKhoi
50. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Adaptation
Modernization
pastoralism
Fieldwork