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DSST General Anthropology
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1. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Modernization
Savagery
Relative time
Superposition
2. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Intervention Anthropology
sharp edges
War
Status
3. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Mutagen
Ritual
Electromagnetic prospecting
Dating methods
4. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
radiometric dating
Mendel's second principle of genetics
prehistoric archaeology
Absolute time
5. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Production
polished stone
Hebrews
State
6. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Nitrogenous Bases
Intervention Anthropology
Pacific indians
Neolithic Technology
7. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Shaman
Religion
exogamy
Elsie Parsons
8. Traces back to ONE person
Geerts
Lineage
Theory of organic evolution
Potlatch
9. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Survival
Hammurabi
Java Man
Structural-functional
10. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
State
Egyptian diffusion
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Mendelian population
11. 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)
Clan
3 types of excavation
Malinowski
husbandry
12. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Specialities
James George Frazer
Kroeber
Cultural Anthropology
13. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Agriculture
Cultural Ecology
Rite of passage
Ralph Lynton
14. 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
Cargo Cult
Semantics
Genotypic Variations
European farming
15. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Genpuku
Nitrogenous Bases
Ralph Lynton
Middle Paleo Period
16. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Ziggurat
Legitimacy
Divorce
Egyptology
17. Ways to date artifacts
Peking Man
Non-warlike people
Dating methods
Family of orientation
18. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Stratigraphy
Policy Research
Etic perspective
Mauss
19. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
prosimians
Tribe
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Divorce
20. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Genotypic Variations
Australopithecus
KhoiKhoi
Taboo
21. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Religion
Chiefdom
polyandry
22. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Adaptation
Functionalism
23. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Neanderthals
Affinal kin
Neolithic Technology
24. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Industrialization
endogamy
Barbarism
25. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
Middle east farming
Migration of Erectus
Dokimasi
Dead Sea scrolls
26. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Referencial Symbol
Functionalism
Syntax
Homo Habilis
27. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
North American Indians
primates
Mendel's third principle of genetics
carbon-14 dating
28. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
3 types of excavation
Cargo Cult
Mythology
Phonology
29. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Rite of passage
Central American indians
Geophysical prospecting
Ritual
30. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Totem
Nitrogenous Bases
Sumerians
Industrialization
31. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Industrialization
Anthropometry
Mauss
Universalities
32. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
polyandry
Egyptian diffusion
Status
Religion
33. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
Hammurabi
Semantics
Catal Huyak
34. 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
Functionalism
Kroeber
Noosphere
35. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
gene flow
babylonians
Ideal culture
Revitalization
36. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Gene pool
babylonians
Market Exchange
Pragmatics
37. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Franz Boas
Petrie
sharp edges
Conspicuous Consumption
38. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Gens
Polygamy
husbandry
Homo Habilis
39. 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
Adaptation
Peking Man
Formal Economics
Egyptology
40. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Hunter/Gatherers
Religion
Diffusion
Mauss
41. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Neolithic Technology
Monarchy
Emile Durkheim
42. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Migration of Erectus
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Agriculture
Modernization
43. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Cognatic Descent
Status
Hammurabi
pastoralism
44. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Biosphere
Feudal System
Emile Durkheim
mana
45. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Ethnography
Poy Tang Lon
Generalized Reciprocity
Writing
46. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Mutation
Crossing over
Quantitative Research
47. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
3 types of excavation
Excavation
Linguistics
Kindred
48. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Non-warlike people
Migration of Erectus
Cargo Cult
Totem
49. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Phonology
Australopithecus
Excavation
Homonids
50. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Pacific indians
Margaret Mead
Unilineal Descent
Stimulus Diffusion