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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Magnetic prospecting
Austrailia indians
Bands & Tribes
Elsie Parsons
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
State
Generalized Reciprocity
Hunter/Gatherers
Diffusion
3. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Modernization
Rite of passage
Migration of Erectus
Referencial Symbol
4. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Emic perspective
James George Frazer
Stimulus Diffusion
Benedict
5. Invented smelting of iron
Savagery
Cognatic Descent
Hittites
Kluckhohn
6. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Levi-Strauss
Geerts
husbandry
Hammurabi
7. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Crossing over
Reciprocity
perforated edges
Homo Erectus
8. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Allele frequency
Geophysical prospecting
Egypt
Moieties
9. 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
Australopithecus
Potlatch
Taboo
Neanderthals
10. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Pacific indians
Theory of organic evolution
Ritual
Ethnology
11. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Fieldwork
Status
Paleolithic period
Biosphere
12. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Poy Tang Lon
Social practices
Schliemann
Dokimasi
13. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
chimpanzee
sharp edges
Schliemann
Sondages
14. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Nuclear Family
Geerts
Chromosome
Mesolithic Period
15. 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
Armchair Anthropologists
culture
old world monkeys
16. 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
European farming
McLennan
Bronze Age
Austrailia indians
17. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Dokimasi
old world monkeys
Phonetics
Shaman
18. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Mendelian population
Weber
Myth
Status
19. 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.
phenotype
Moieties
homonoids
Ethnocentrism
20. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
Nistri periscope
Evaluation research
Status
21. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Cultural Evolution
Referencial Symbol
Dating methods
22. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Stimulus Diffusion
Homo Habilis
McLennan
Warlike people
23. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Cargo Cult
Generalized Reciprocity
Policy Research
Phonetics
24. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Franz Boas
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Phonetics
Archaeology
25. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Lineage
Animal domestication
classical archaeology
Sanction
26. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Cultural relativism
Crossing over
Migration of Erectus
Applied Anthropology
27. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
phenotype
Kluckhohn
Stimulus Diffusion
Archaeology
28. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Survival
Functionalism
Monarchy
Industrialization
29. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Africa
Levy-Bruhl
Cultural relativism
Myth
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
Redistribution
Social Darwinism
McLennan
Social practices
31. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Class
Stratigraphy
Balanced Reciprocity
32. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Mutation
Stratigraphy
Neolithic Period
platyrrhini
33. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Agriculture
Cargo Cult
Homonids
Evaluation research
34. <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
Anthropoids
Upper Paleo period
Electromagnetic prospecting
Polygamy
35. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
Geosphere
Mayan indians
Individual Peculiarities
36. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
phenotype
Cro-Magnon
Condensed Symbol
37. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Survival
Ziggurat
Hunter/Gatherers
Yanomamo Feasting
38. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Survival
Qualitative Research
carbon-14 dating
Cargo Cult
39. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Noosphere
Referencial Symbol
Phonetics
Dead Sea scrolls
40. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
International Development
Mutagen
Java Man
Mauss
41. 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.
Negative Reciprocity
Egyptian diffusion
Sanction
culture
42. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Margaret Mead
McLennan
Levirate
Dating methods
43. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Ethnography
Margaret Mead
Anthropometry
Taboo
44. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Dead Sea scrolls
pastoralism
Morphology
Potlatch
45. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Hammurabi
North American Indians
Java Man
Catal Huyak
46. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Diffusion
Religion
Affinal kin
Cargo Cult
47. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Directed Cultural Change
James George Frazer
babylonians
WG Rivers
48. 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]
Band
Fieldwork
Condensed Symbol
Franz Boas
49. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Social impact assessment
Feudal System
chimpanzee
Cargo Cult
50. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Taboo
prosimians
Mauss