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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Gene
Cultural Anthropology
Semantics
sharp edges
2. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Directed Cultural Change
Writing
endogamy
New World monkeys
3. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Rite of passage
Sanction
Sapir-Whorf
Genotypic Variations
4. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Relative time
Referencial Symbol
Ethnology
5. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Upper Paleo period
Cultivation
Cultural relativism
Alternatives
6. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Modernization
Qualitative Research
Catal Huyak
polyandry
7. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Polygamy
pastoralism
Lower Paleo Period
Monogamy
8. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Emic perspective
Policy Research
Australopithecus
Africa
9. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Ethnography
Gene pool
Feudal System
Unit of Kinship
10. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Java Man
Totem
Evaluation research
Dokimasi
11. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
WG Rivers
Balanced Reciprocity
Writing
Migration of Erectus
12. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Religion
perforated edges
Redistribution
State
13. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
radiometric dating
classical archaeology
Emic perspective
Assyrians
14. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Cro-Magnon
Modernization
Mary Douglas Leakey
Elsie Parsons
15. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Mendelian population
Geophysical prospecting
Cultural Evolution
Emic perspective
16. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Radcliffe-Brown
Tribe
classical archaeology
Stratigraphy
17. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
DNA
Band
Mesolithic Period
Egyptology
18. 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.
Civilization
Homonids
Anthropoids
Excavation
19. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Franz Boas
3 types of excavation
Java Man
Qualitative Research
20. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
Allele
homonoids
Franz Boas
21. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Schliemann
Geerts
Dokimasi
Revitalization
22. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
mana
Archaeology
Crossing over
Cargo Cult
23. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Culture
Formal Economics
KhoiKhoi
Kindred
24. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
DNA
Ritual
Upper Paleo period
Monogamy
25. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Ethnology
Levy-Bruhl
Allele
Social practices
26. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Ethnocentrism
Ethnography
Homonids
Africa
27. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Egyptology
Ziggurat
Gens
Matrilineal Descent
28. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
phenotype
Symbol
Allele frequency
Egyptology
29. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Monarchy
Middle east farming
Industrialization
Mayan indians
30. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Anthropometry
Survival
Savagery
Cargo Cult
31. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Franz Boas
Radcliffe-Brown
Feudal System
Kluckhohn
32. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Religion
Structuralism
DNA
Mutation
33. 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
Middle east farming
Civilization
Lower Paleo Period
War
34. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Unilineal Descent
husbandry
Allele frequency
35. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Social impact assessment
Tribe
36. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Tribe
Ritual
Dead Sea scrolls
Pragmatics
37. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Peking Man
Crossing over
Stratigraphy
38. 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
Genetic Recombination
Monarchy
Class
Qualitative Research
39. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Market Exchange
Cognatic Descent
Status
Cro-Magnon
40. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Agriculture
Fieldwork
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Physical Anthropology
41. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Schliemann
Redistribution
Writing
Chromosome
42. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Crossing over
Linguistics
Market Exchange
Sapir-Whorf
43. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Totem
Africa
Mayan indians
American farming
44. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cargo Cult
Animism
State
Substantive Economics
45. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Totem
Birth of Anthropology
gene flow
Excavation
46. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Geosphere
Anthropoids
Revitalization
Egyptology
47. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Animal domestication
Olduvai Gorge
Archaeology
Universalities
48. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Phonology
Cognatic Descent
radiometric dating
Mendel's second principle of genetics
49. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Production
radiometric dating
Symbol
Ideal culture
50. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Morphology
Industrialization
Ritual
Condensed Symbol