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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Class
Modernization
Olduvai Gorge
Greeks
2. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Unilineal Descent
Cargo Cult
Noosphere
Mutagen
3. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
European farming
prosimians
Radcliffe-Brown
Middle Paleo Period
4. 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)
Monarchy
Egyptology
Malinowski
Etic perspective
5. 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
classical archaeology
Redistribution
Central American indians
Greeks
6. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Mythology
Physical Anthropology
perforated edges
Excavation
7. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Dating methods
Cultural Ecology
Intervention Anthropology
Genotypic Variations
8. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Chromosome
Cultural Anthropology
gene flow
Sumerians
9. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Africa
Theory of organic evolution
Superposition
Intervention Anthropology
10. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
prehistoric archaeology
Warlike people
Yanomamo Feasting
Technology development research
11. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Neolithic Period
Mauss
Elsie Parsons
Birth of Anthropology
12. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
endogamy
Taboo
Elsie Parsons
Unilineal Descent
13. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Homo Erectus
Social Class Manifestation
Paleolithic period
Condensed Symbol
14. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Anthropometry
Quantitative Research
Elsie Parsons
Bronze Age
15. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
polished stone
Revitalization
Generalized Reciprocity
radiometric dating
16. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Chiefdom
Electromagnetic prospecting
KhoiKhoi
Family of procreation
17. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
gene flow
Sanction
Ethnocentrism
Lineage
18. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Upper Paleo period
chimpanzee
Benedict
Kroeber
19. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Genetic drift
Cargo Cult
exogamy
Geosphere
20. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Mesopotamia
Middle east farming
Family of orientation
Cross-cousins
21. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Totem
Unilineal Descent
Homo Habilis
McLennan
22. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Lower Paleo Period
Phonology
Horticulture
Egyptian diffusion
23. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
babylonians
phenotype
polyandry
Elsie Parsons
24. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
mana
Olduvai Gorge
Evaluation research
American farming
25. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Phonology
exogamy
Modernization
Genetic drift
26. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
3 types of excavation
polished stone
Referencial Symbol
Chiefdom
27. 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)
Austrailia indians
Revitalization
Feudal System
Homonids
28. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Rite of passage
Morphology
Asian farming
Peking Man
29. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Generalized Reciprocity
Central American indians
culture
Kluckhohn
30. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Homonids
Cargo Cult
Pragmatics
Leakey family
31. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Dokimasi
Middle Paleo Period
classical archaeology
Culture
32. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Nistri periscope
Diffusion
Unit of Kinship
primates
33. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Neolithic Technology
Yanomamo Feasting
Anthropoids
Poy Tang Lon
34. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Cultural Resource Assessment
old world monkeys
Genotype
Religion
35. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Anthropology
Middle Paleo Period
Myth
Neolithic Technology
36. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Quantitative Research
exogamy
Cultivation
Crossing over
37. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Hittites
Animal domestication
Assyrians
Stimulus Diffusion
38. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cultivation
Chromosome
Mauss
Franz Boas
39. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Formal Economics
Nitrogenous Bases
Nistri periscope
40. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Sanction
Dokimasi
Mary Douglas Leakey
Peking Man
41. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Social impact assessment
Survival
Cultural Resource Assessment
Gene
42. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
McLennan
Electromagnetic prospecting
Olduvai Gorge
Nitrogenous Bases
43. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Anthropometry
prosimians
Mauss
North American Indians
44. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Sapir-Whorf
Morphology
primates
Monogamy
45. (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
Barbarism
Hunter/Gatherers
Moieties
Gens
46. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Formal Economics
Warlike people
Civilization
Levirate
47. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
DNA
Nistri periscope
Reciprocity
Evaluation research
48. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
KhoiKhoi
Cultural Ecology
Stratigraphy
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
49. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Formal Economics
International Development
Bronze Age
Weber
50. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Revitalization
Specialities
Cultural Evolution
Ideal culture