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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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)
Social Darwinism
Dokimasi
Franz Boas
sharp edges
2. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Lower Paleo Period
Sondages
Geosphere
endogamy
3. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Geerts
Structural-functional
Australopithecus
primates
4. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Social Class Manifestation
Diffusion
Caste
Ethnocentrism
5. 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.
Modernization
Emic perspective
Tributary Production
Armchair Anthropologists
6. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Mauss
Unit of Kinship
Legitimacy
Non-warlike people
7. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
State
Class
Middle Paleo Period
Functionalism
8. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Hittites
Condensed Symbol
Genpuku
prosimians
9. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Condensed Symbol
African Economic Organization
Taboo
Referencial Symbol
10. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Individual Peculiarities
Anthropoids
platyrrhini
Migration of Erectus
11. 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
Cross-cousins
Linguistics
James George Frazer
12. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Generalized Reciprocity
Sapir-Whorf
Egyptology
pastoralism
13. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Mesolithic Period
Warlike people
exogamy
14. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Margaret Mead
Genpuku
Family of orientation
Monogamy
15. Ways to date artifacts
Cultural Resource Assessment
phenotype
Hunter/Gatherers
Dating methods
16. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Cultivation
Relative time
Java Man
American farming
17. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Potlatch
Warlike people
Specialities
Mutation
18. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Phonetics
Theory of organic evolution
Diffusion
Anthropoids
19. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
Mesopotamia
Petrie
Phonetics
20. Traces back to ONE person
DNA
Franz Boas
Mutagen
Lineage
21. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Mauss
Morphology
Central American indians
Levirate
22. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Neanderthals
Non-warlike people
Levirate
Poy Tang Lon
23. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Referencial Symbol
Family of procreation
Phonology
European farming
24. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Diffusion
Technology development research
Dead Sea scrolls
North American Indians
25. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Substantive Economics
Asian farming
Kluckhohn
Negative Reciprocity
26. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Diffusion
Yanomamo
Magnetic prospecting
War
27. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Religion
husbandry
Myth
Ritual
28. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Asian farming
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Nistri periscope
3 types of excavation
29. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Fieldwork
Homonids
Modernization
Stratigraphy
30. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
chimpanzee
Agriculture
Neanderthals
Social practices
31. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Petrie
Ritual
Asian farming
Anthropoids
32. 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..
Dead Sea scrolls
Kroeber
Gene pool
Levy-Bruhl
33. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Excavation
prosimians
Absolute time
War
34. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Emile Durkheim
DNA
Matrilineal Descent
Sondages
35. 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
Totem
Egypt
Cargo Cult
36. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Olduvai Gorge
Yanomamo Feasting
Substantive Economics
James George Frazer
37. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
Syntax
Ralph Lynton
Physical Anthropology
38. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Unilineal Descent
Neanderthals
Band
39. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Australopithecus
Status
Bands & Tribes
Kluckhohn
40. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
3 types of excavation
Franz Boas
Agriculture
Mauss
41. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Semantics
Ethnography
Band
Genotypic Variations
42. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Biosphere
Ideal culture
Anthropology
Emile Durkheim
43. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Non-warlike people
Animism
Noosphere
Technology development research
44. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Middle Paleo Period
Olduvai Gorge
Moieties
Civilization
45. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Benedict
classical archaeology
Relative time
Morphology
46. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Totem
Anthropoids
Rite of passage
Kinship
47. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Leakey family
Peking Man
Animal domestication
48. Spread of something from one group to another
Egyptian diffusion
Diffusion
Kindred
Absolute time
49. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Tribe
mana
Pragmatics
Mendel's second principle of genetics
50. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Culture
Generalized Reciprocity
Schliemann
Ethnology