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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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)
Real Culture
Morphology
Revitalization
Social impact assessment
2. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Birth of Anthropology
Diffusion
Qualitative Research
Yanomamo Feasting
3. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Clan
platyrrhini
culture
Egyptology
4. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Agriculture
Biosphere
Universalities
International Development
5. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Phonology
Archaeology
Weber
Monogamy
6. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
exogamy
Unilineal Descent
Status
Cargo Cult
7. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Nuclear Family
Mesolithic Period
Gene pool
8. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
3 types of excavation
Gene
Weber
Revitalization
9. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Hunter/Gatherers
Structural-functional
Feudal System
Market Exchange
10. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Sondages
Mutation
Animal domestication
Cargo Cult
11. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Adaptation
Middle Paleo Period
Aztec indians
Absolute time
12. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Hebrews
Cognatic Descent
Quinceanera
Family of procreation
13. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Egyptian diffusion
Social impact assessment
Semantics
prosimians
14. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Negative Reciprocity
Balanced Reciprocity
Geophysical prospecting
Archaeology
15. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Myth
WG Rivers
Reciprocity
Chiefdom
16. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Legitimacy
Cro-Magnon
War
Ralph Lynton
17. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
African Economic Organization
Yanomamo
chimpanzee
Olduvai Gorge
18. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Mutagen
Levy-Bruhl
International Development
Affinal kin
19. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
primates
Egyptian diffusion
endogamy
Tribe
20. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Mythology
Reciprocity
Structural-functional
Quantitative Research
21. Determining the success of a project
Relative time
Applied Anthropology
Religion
Evaluation research
22. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Mutagen
Cultural relativism
Social Class Manifestation
chimpanzee
23. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Ritual
Stratigraphy
Modernization
Social practices
24. 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
Lineage
Formal Economics
International Development
Quinceanera
25. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Morphology
Ideal culture
Referencial Symbol
Leakey family
26. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Policy Research
Reciprocity
State
27. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
New World monkeys
Levi-Strauss
Mesopotamia
Structuralism
28. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Technology development research
Migration of Erectus
Ideal culture
29. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
North American Indians
Sanction
Pacific indians
Civilization
30. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
North American Indians
Etic perspective
Theory of organic evolution
Sondages
31. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Barbarism
Allele
Leakey family
phenotype
32. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Status
Cultural relativism
mana
Olduvai Gorge
33. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Real Culture
Totem
Noosphere
Petrie
34. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Real Culture
Adaptation
Armchair Anthropologists
Birth of Anthropology
35. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Structuralism
Ethnology
Myth
Hunter/Gatherers
36. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
classical archaeology
Nitrogenous Bases
Mauss
Mendel's second principle of genetics
37. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Cargo Cult
Migration of Erectus
Emic perspective
Ritual
38. <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
Mayan indians
Upper Paleo period
Diffusion
North American Indians
39. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
perforated edges
Taboo
Structural-functional
sharp edges
40. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Revitalization
Morphology
phenotype
Redistribution
41. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Horticulture
Cargo Cult
Balanced Reciprocity
Aztec indians
42. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Sapir-Whorf
EB Tylor
Qualitative Research
43. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Egyptology
Genotypic Variations
Legitimacy
Animal domestication
44. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Individual Peculiarities
endogamy
Cargo Cult
polyandry
45. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
prehistoric archaeology
Cultural Ecology
Homo Erectus
Kroeber
46. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
classical archaeology
Hebrews
Mendelian population
Individual Peculiarities
47. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Geosphere
Physical Anthropology
radiometric dating
polyandry
48. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Quantitative Research
Anthropometry
Conspicuous Consumption
49. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Semantics
Egypt
Etic perspective
Symbol
50. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
African Economic Organization
Policy Research
Status