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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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
Cultural Anthropology
Morphology
Gene
2. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Cargo Cult
Totem
Chromosome
Cultural Resource Assessment
3. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Myth
Greeks
Industrialization
Mary Douglas Leakey
4. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Referencial Symbol
Legitimacy
Writing
polished stone
5. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Balanced Reciprocity
Sanction
Mesopotamia
Excavation
6. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Etic perspective
Java Man
Homo Habilis
Class
7. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Lower Paleo Period
Tributary Production
Levi-Strauss
Moieties
8. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.
Syntax
Social practices
prehistoric archaeology
Market Exchange
9. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Genotype
Warlike people
Paleolithic period
Specialities
10. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Tributary Production
Malinowski
Cargo Cult
old world monkeys
11. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Policy Research
Clan
Electromagnetic prospecting
Peking Man
12. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Natural selection
Nuclear Family
Diffusion
Market Exchange
13. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Directed Cultural Change
Agriculture
Culture
primates
14. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Intervention Anthropology
Petrie
Revitalization
Agriculture
15. 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.
Levy-Bruhl
Physical Anthropology
Relative time
babylonians
16. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Chromosome
babylonians
Status
Nistri periscope
17. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Referencial Symbol
prosimians
Negative Reciprocity
Electromagnetic prospecting
18. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Neanderthals
Pragmatics
Genotype
Technology development research
19. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Formal Economics
Etic perspective
Ethnocentrism
Egyptian diffusion
20. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Pragmatics
Cargo Cult
Central American indians
Monogamy
21. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Sumerians
Fieldwork
Cross-cousins
22. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Chiefdom
Crossing over
Pacific indians
Genotypic Variations
23. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Cargo Cult
Mutagen
Caste
Social practices
24. 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.
babylonians
EB Tylor
Reciprocity
Civilization
25. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Social impact assessment
European farming
Cargo Cult
Unit of Kinship
26. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Band
African Economic Organization
Ziggurat
Phratry
27. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Asian farming
Levirate
Dead Sea scrolls
Mutation
28. 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
Social Class Manifestation
Stimulus Diffusion
European farming
Etic perspective
29. (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)
Weber
Referencial Symbol
Ralph Lynton
Neolithic Period
30. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Writing
Mendelian population
Leakey family
culture
31. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Peking Man
Birth of Anthropology
Sondages
32. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Stimulus Diffusion
Ideal culture
Animism
Balanced Reciprocity
33. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Symbol
Catal Huyak
polyandry
Allele frequency
34. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Substantive Economics
Bronze Age
Cultural Evolution
Cargo Cult
35. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Anthropology
Ethnography
Kindred
Poy Tang Lon
36. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Australopithecus
Weber
Social impact assessment
Geerts
37. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
Social impact assessment
Animism
Margaret Mead
DNA
38. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Genpuku
Polygamy
Intervention Anthropology
Assyrians
39. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Myth
State
Levy-Bruhl
Applied Anthropology
40. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Status
Cargo Cult
Genotype
41. 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)
Egyptian diffusion
Clan
South American indians
Revitalization
42. Thinkers: linguistics
Tributary Production
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Sanction
Semantics
43. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Policy Research
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Unilineal Descent
Evaluation research
44. 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
endogamy
Ethnocentrism
Culture
Peking Man
45. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Fieldwork
Universalities
Evaluation research
Mythology
46. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Specialities
perforated edges
Etic perspective
Technology development research
47. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Technology development research
Aztec indians
Structural-functional
husbandry
48. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Social Class Manifestation
Paleolithic period
Migration of Erectus
chimpanzee
49. 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
Weber
Dating methods
Cargo Cult
Genotypic Variations
50. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
carbon-14 dating
Tribe
Cargo Cult