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DSST General Anthropology
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1. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Australopithecus
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Culture
Writing
2. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Reciprocity
Asian farming
Genetic drift
Ritual
3. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
4. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Homonids
Tribe
Rite of passage
Levy-Bruhl
5. Shorthand - Morse Code
pastoralism
Stimulus Diffusion
Condensed Symbol
Functionalism
6. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Band
Central American indians
Armchair Anthropologists
Phonetics
7. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Reciprocity
Polygamy
Cro-Magnon
Weber
8. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Structural-functional
International Development
Allele frequency
Cultural Anthropology
9. 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
Revitalization
Catal Huyak
Peking Man
Weber
10. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Dating methods
Asian farming
Warlike people
Natural selection
11. Traces back to ONE person
Lineage
Ideal culture
Cargo Cult
Dating methods
12. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Mythology
Mayan indians
Africa
Real Culture
13. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
Social impact assessment
Phonetics
Geophysical prospecting
14. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Phonology
International Development
Monogamy
Affinal kin
15. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Individual Peculiarities
Physical Anthropology
Status
Genetic drift
16. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Dating methods
Anthropoids
Cultural Resource Assessment
Band
17. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Phonetics
Quinceanera
Conspicuous Consumption
Negative Reciprocity
18. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
platyrrhini
Leakey family
American farming
Kinship
19. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Diffusion
Individual Peculiarities
Asian farming
chimpanzee
20. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Java Man
Social impact assessment
Ralph Lynton
Referencial Symbol
21. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Anthropoids
Structural-functional
Olduvai Gorge
22. 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
Margaret Mead
European farming
Geerts
Sumerians
23. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
International Development
Functionalism
Writing
24. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Production
Central American indians
gene flow
Structuralism
25. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Applied Anthropology
endogamy
Generalized Reciprocity
Individual Peculiarities
26. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Culture
Emile Durkheim
Adaptation
Gens
27. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Monarchy
Greeks
Egyptian diffusion
28. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
perforated edges
Geosphere
Anthropology
Superposition
29. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Ideal culture
Ethnocentrism
Caste
Real Culture
30. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Ethnology
endogamy
Ziggurat
31. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Cultural Ecology
Negative Reciprocity
Agriculture
Lineage
32. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Cargo Cult
Myth
Reciprocity
Horticulture
33. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
perforated edges
prosimians
Adaptation
polished stone
34. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Middle Paleo Period
Armchair Anthropologists
perforated edges
primates
35. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cultivation
homonoids
Neanderthals
Nitrogenous Bases
36. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Geosphere
Mutation
Gens
Animism
37. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Cultural relativism
Biosphere
Functionalism
platyrrhini
38. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Upper Paleo period
Industrialization
Pragmatics
Balanced Reciprocity
39. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Cultural relativism
Alternatives
Qualitative Research
Monarchy
40. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Technology development research
Clan
Writing
41. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Genetic Recombination
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kinship
classical archaeology
42. Family that raised you
Anthropology
Middle east farming
chimpanzee
Family of orientation
43. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Weber
Stratigraphy
Middle Paleo Period
old world monkeys
44. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Benedict
Ethnography
Formal Economics
Geophysical prospecting
45. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Cro-Magnon
Migration of Erectus
polished stone
Fieldwork
46. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Relative time
Qualitative Research
Chromosome
Ritual
47. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Migration of Erectus
Genotypic Variations
Bronze Age
Crossing over
48. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
Universalities
Homonids
European farming
Neanderthals
49. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
State
Social Class Manifestation
Allele frequency
Superposition
50. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Dead Sea scrolls
Moieties
Civilization
Applied Anthropology