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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Invented smelting of iron
Homo Habilis
Hittites
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Phonology
2. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Mayan indians
Geosphere
State
Hammurabi
3. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Status
Kluckhohn
Cro-Magnon
Phonology
4. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Chiefdom
Quinceanera
Diffusion
Barbarism
5. 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.
Adaptation
Relative time
Upper Paleo period
Civilization
6. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
platyrrhini
North American Indians
mana
Clan
7. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Cultural Evolution
Tributary Production
Hammurabi
Mutation
8. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Universalities
Ethnology
Ideal culture
Warlike people
9. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Pragmatics
American farming
Franz Boas
Catal Huyak
10. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Ethnography
Aztec indians
Substantive Economics
Sapir-Whorf
11. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
WG Rivers
Migration of Erectus
Etic perspective
Diffusion
12. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Directed Cultural Change
polyandry
Chiefdom
Real Culture
13. Thinkers: linguistics
Universalities
Absolute time
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Quinceanera
14. 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.
Physical Anthropology
Mauss
Archaeology
Religion
15. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Monogamy
Malinowski
Franz Boas
Linguistics
16. 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
Allele
Semantics
Applied Anthropology
Animism
17. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Mutation
Policy Research
Caste
gene flow
18. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'
Mauss
Homo Habilis
Excavation
Ritual
19. (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)
Mayan indians
Neolithic Period
Asian farming
polyandry
20. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Redistribution
Mary Douglas Leakey
Africa
Market Exchange
21. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Mendelian population
Civilization
Kindred
Hebrews
22. 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
Stimulus Diffusion
Phratry
Anthropology
Substantive Economics
23. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Africa
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
primates
Status
24. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Emile Durkheim
Levi-Strauss
Middle east farming
Pacific indians
25. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
African Economic Organization
Weber
Ethnography
War
26. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Bronze Age
Cargo Cult
New World monkeys
Lower Paleo Period
27. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
pastoralism
Sumerians
Mythology
International Development
28. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Shaman
Ritual
Phratry
Gene pool
29. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Dating methods
Family of procreation
Hittites
30. Thinker: social stratification
pastoralism
Weber
American farming
Potlatch
31. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Cultural Evolution
Formal Economics
Genotype
Social practices
32. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Civilization
Emic perspective
Modernization
South American indians
33. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Monarchy
Sumerians
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Symbol
34. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Quantitative Research
Social impact assessment
Homo Erectus
Individual Peculiarities
35. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Monarchy
husbandry
Sanction
Chiefdom
36. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Ralph Lynton
sharp edges
Cargo Cult
exogamy
37. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Negative Reciprocity
Ideal culture
Cultural relativism
Survival
38. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Structuralism
Linguistics
Diffusion
Kluckhohn
39. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Allele
Sondages
Olduvai Gorge
Genotypic Variations
40. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Levy-Bruhl
Intervention Anthropology
State
Adaptation
41. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Geosphere
Cultural Ecology
Cultural relativism
Crossing over
42. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Kroeber
Monogamy
Natural selection
Cargo Cult
43. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
Religion
Bronze Age
Market Exchange
44. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Java Man
gene flow
Gene migration
Paleolithic period
45. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animal domestication
pastoralism
Balanced Reciprocity
Gene pool
46. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Religion
Non-warlike people
Taboo
Asian farming
47. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
carbon-14 dating
gene flow
Central American indians
North American Indians
48. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Chiefdom
Tribe
Peking Man
Cultural Anthropology
49. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Status
Non-warlike people
Kluckhohn
Writing
50. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Cro-Magnon
Pacific indians
Quantitative Research
Totem