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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Specialities
Savagery
Phases of rituals
Affinal kin
2. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
War
Africa
Diffusion
Homo Erectus
3. <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
Linguistics
Upper Paleo period
Noosphere
Bronze Age
4. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Kroeber
Asian farming
mana
Cultural Anthropology
5. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Genpuku
Functionalism
Formal Economics
Survival
6. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Sumerians
Polygamy
Mesolithic Period
DNA
7. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Totem
Geerts
Civilization
Family of orientation
8. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Unit of Kinship
James George Frazer
Non-warlike people
Cro-Magnon
9. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Malinowski
Levi-Strauss
Production
Cultural Ecology
10. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Elsie Parsons
Mythology
Modernization
Genpuku
11. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Technology development research
Referencial Symbol
Cross-cousins
12. Determining the success of a project
Levirate
Evaluation research
African Economic Organization
Quantitative Research
13. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Animal domestication
Monogamy
Production
Social Darwinism
14. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Nitrogenous Bases
carbon-14 dating
Directed Cultural Change
prehistoric archaeology
15. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Stimulus Diffusion
Radcliffe-Brown
State
Cargo Cult
16. (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)
Theory of organic evolution
Levirate
Genetic drift
Neolithic Period
17. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Syntax
Mutation
Alternatives
18. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Homonids
Social Darwinism
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Horticulture
19. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Austrailia indians
chimpanzee
Non-warlike people
Real Culture
20. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
War
Matrilineal Descent
International Development
Migration of Erectus
21. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Middle Paleo Period
Catal Huyak
Paleolithic period
DNA
22. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
polyandry
Genpuku
pastoralism
Kluckhohn
23. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
EB Tylor
perforated edges
Agriculture
culture
24. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
McLennan
Sapir-Whorf
Dokimasi
25. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Qualitative Research
Negative Reciprocity
Gens
Semantics
26. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Gene pool
Generalized Reciprocity
Agriculture
Adaptation
27. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
Emic perspective
Birth of Anthropology
Anthropoids
28. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
McLennan
Ideal culture
Magnetic prospecting
Nitrogenous Bases
29. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Anthropometry
sharp edges
Genotype
Horticulture
30. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Tributary Production
Animism
Shaman
Radcliffe-Brown
31. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Band
Asian farming
Sapir-Whorf
primates
32. (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
Feudal System
exogamy
Modernization
Hunter/Gatherers
33. 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.
Armchair Anthropologists
Margaret Mead
Ritual
Radcliffe-Brown
34. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Cultivation
Writing
Kroeber
Divorce
35. 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.
Yanomamo
Gens
Sanction
homonoids
36. Shorthand - Morse Code
Genetic drift
Animism
Technology development research
Condensed Symbol
37. 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
Industrialization
Levy-Bruhl
Olduvai Gorge
38. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Egypt
Barbarism
Ritual
Industrialization
39. Holistic study of humanity.
Gene migration
Middle Paleo Period
Cultural relativism
Anthropology
40. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Moieties
Specialities
Mary Douglas Leakey
Egyptian diffusion
41. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Non-warlike people
Agriculture
Sanction
Levi-Strauss
42. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Mauss
Cultivation
radiometric dating
Shaman
43. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
State
Balanced Reciprocity
Formal Economics
Diffusion
44. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
European farming
Mythology
Olduvai Gorge
African Economic Organization
45. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
chimpanzee
Myth
Alternatives
Bands & Tribes
46. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Technology development research
Hunter/Gatherers
Peking Man
Lineage
47. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Dokimasi
primates
pastoralism
Mary Douglas Leakey
48. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Cargo Cult
Kinship
Genotype
Birth of Anthropology
49. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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50. 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
EB Tylor
polished stone
Middle east farming
Mary Douglas Leakey