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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Cultivation
Shaman
Ralph Lynton
Mendel's third principle of genetics
2. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Cargo Cult
Clan
babylonians
Anthropoids
3. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
carbon-14 dating
Rite of passage
Emile Durkheim
KhoiKhoi
4. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Social Darwinism
carbon-14 dating
Policy Research
Religion
5. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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6. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Anthropology
sharp edges
Pragmatics
EB Tylor
7. (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
Religion
Magnetic prospecting
Hunter/Gatherers
Relative time
8. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Ethnology
Mesolithic Period
Caste
Birth of Anthropology
9. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Phratry
McLennan
Market Exchange
Cultural Anthropology
10. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Social Darwinism
Stratigraphy
James George Frazer
International Development
11. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
North American Indians
Mayan indians
old world monkeys
12. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Hebrews
Homo Erectus
Archaeology
Absolute time
13. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Malinowski
Cognatic Descent
phenotype
Unit of Kinship
14. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Mesolithic Period
Rite of passage
Neolithic Technology
polished stone
15. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Band
Natural selection
Homonids
16. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Barbarism
Dokimasi
Balanced Reciprocity
Universalities
17. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Hebrews
Social impact assessment
pastoralism
primates
18. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Social impact assessment
Upper Paleo period
Cultural relativism
Cultural Resource Assessment
19. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Aztec indians
Industrialization
Geosphere
Cultural Evolution
20. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Hammurabi
Redistribution
Ethnocentrism
Emic perspective
21. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Poy Tang Lon
Unilineal Descent
Cultural Resource Assessment
Horticulture
22. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Divorce
Petrie
Genpuku
Austrailia indians
23. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Mary Douglas Leakey
Levy-Bruhl
mana
Chiefdom
24. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Genetic drift
Rite of passage
Negative Reciprocity
25. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Kluckhohn
prehistoric archaeology
KhoiKhoi
Cross-cousins
26. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Kluckhohn
Pacific indians
Relative time
Austrailia indians
27. Holistic study of humanity.
Cargo Cult
James George Frazer
Anthropology
Mesolithic Period
28. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Homo Habilis
pastoralism
Excavation
Nistri periscope
29. 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)
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Phratry
Excavation
Kluckhohn
30. Thinkers: linguistics
Upper Paleo period
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Pacific indians
New World monkeys
31. Spread of something from one group to another
Cognatic Descent
Diffusion
EB Tylor
pastoralism
32. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Ideal culture
Genpuku
Technology development research
Religion
33. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Phratry
Moieties
Margaret Mead
Balanced Reciprocity
34. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
husbandry
Industrialization
McLennan
Totem
35. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Phratry
Hunter/Gatherers
Bronze Age
Geophysical prospecting
36. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Real Culture
Gens
Ideal culture
Anthropology
37. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Crossing over
Totem
Chiefdom
Condensed Symbol
38. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Franz Boas
Biosphere
Levi-Strauss
Poy Tang Lon
39. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Gens
Genetic Recombination
Relative time
Absolute time
40. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
International Development
Ethnography
Nistri periscope
Totem
41. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Elsie Parsons
Birth of Anthropology
Yanomamo Feasting
Crossing over
42. 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
Biosphere
Peking Man
Modernization
Cognatic Descent
43. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Tributary Production
Social Class Manifestation
Egyptian diffusion
Asian farming
44. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Survival
Superposition
Bronze Age
Cultural Anthropology
45. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Phases of rituals
Unilineal Descent
Stratigraphy
prehistoric archaeology
46. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Petrie
Gene
KhoiKhoi
State
47. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Poy Tang Lon
sharp edges
Agriculture
Qualitative Research
48. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Asian farming
Anthropoids
Feudal System
Mutagen
49. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Condensed Symbol
polyandry
Migration of Erectus
Non-warlike people
50. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Emic perspective
Ziggurat
Hebrews
Phonetics