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DSST General Anthropology
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1. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
Allele frequency
Geophysical prospecting
International Development
2. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Anthropoids
McLennan
Aztec indians
Band
3. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Anthropometry
Syntax
Paleolithic period
New World monkeys
4. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Cargo Cult
Mythology
Adaptation
Yanomamo
5. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Homo Habilis
Cargo Cult
Ralph Lynton
Mary Douglas Leakey
6. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Poy Tang Lon
Levi-Strauss
KhoiKhoi
Middle east farming
7. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Allele frequency
Social impact assessment
carbon-14 dating
Magnetic prospecting
8. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Policy Research
Dating methods
Referencial Symbol
Asian farming
9. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Ritual
Technology development research
Mythology
Social Darwinism
10. 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
Directed Cultural Change
Genotypic Variations
Mayan indians
sharp edges
11. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cultivation
Cross-cousins
Nitrogenous Bases
Cultural Anthropology
12. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Market Exchange
Levy-Bruhl
American farming
WG Rivers
13. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Tribe
Phonology
perforated edges
Homo Habilis
14. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Austrailia indians
Egypt
Agriculture
3 types of excavation
15. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
New World monkeys
Egypt
Egyptology
Taboo
16. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Status
Homo Erectus
Real Culture
Leakey family
17. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Java Man
International Development
Excavation
Sapir-Whorf
18. 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
Benedict
Biosphere
Conspicuous Consumption
Applied Anthropology
19. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Cargo Cult
primates
gene flow
Lower Paleo Period
20. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Asian farming
Kindred
Status
mana
21. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Kinship
Gene pool
Modernization
Noosphere
22. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Etic perspective
Leakey family
Nistri periscope
Writing
23. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Genetic Recombination
Mutagen
Levy-Bruhl
Civilization
24. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Crossing over
Diffusion
Egypt
American farming
25. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Egyptology
Excavation
Magnetic prospecting
Yanomamo
26. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Writing
Reciprocity
Middle Paleo Period
Monogamy
27. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Generalized Reciprocity
Diffusion
Production
Kinship
28. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
phenotype
Cro-Magnon
Warlike people
Matrilineal Descent
29. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Culture
Excavation
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Social Darwinism
30. 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.
gene flow
Armchair Anthropologists
Levy-Bruhl
Asian farming
31. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
platyrrhini
Policy Research
Theory of organic evolution
Yanomamo
32. 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'
Legitimacy
Homo Habilis
Alternatives
Modernization
33. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Mayan indians
Culture
Asian farming
Hittites
34. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Poy Tang Lon
Dead Sea scrolls
Middle east farming
Upper Paleo period
35. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Reciprocity
pastoralism
Survival
Archaeology
36. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
International Development
Kroeber
Asian farming
Homo Habilis
37. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
State
old world monkeys
Ralph Lynton
Natural selection
38. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Universalities
Ethnocentrism
Geophysical prospecting
Applied Anthropology
39. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Totem
Affinal kin
Cultural Anthropology
Hittites
40. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
pastoralism
Savagery
Formal Economics
Technology development research
41. 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)
Band
Social Darwinism
Quantitative Research
Unit of Kinship
42. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Gens
Ritual
WG Rivers
Balanced Reciprocity
43. 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.
Mesolithic Period
Physical Anthropology
Hittites
carbon-14 dating
44. (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)
Neolithic Period
Genpuku
Allele
Chiefdom
45. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Asian farming
Gene migration
Genpuku
Gene
46. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
African Economic Organization
Mutagen
polished stone
Formal Economics
47. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Olduvai Gorge
Genotypic Variations
Chiefdom
Chromosome
48. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Yanomamo Feasting
Directed Cultural Change
Malinowski
Pragmatics
49. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Tribe
Mauss
homonoids
Africa
50. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Morphology
perforated edges
Dead Sea scrolls
Margaret Mead