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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Totem
Modernization
Chiefdom
Social impact assessment
2. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Religion
Social Darwinism
Policy Research
3. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Anthropoids
Alternatives
Monarchy
Mutation
4. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Bronze Age
Peking Man
Cargo Cult
Morphology
5. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
Specialities
WG Rivers
Ritual
6. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Mayan indians
Structuralism
Austrailia indians
Religion
7. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Technology development research
Clan
European farming
Homonids
8. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
polyandry
perforated edges
American farming
9. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
Dead Sea scrolls
Phases of rituals
Cargo Cult
culture
10. 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
Asian farming
Crossing over
Sanction
Middle east farming
11. (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
Adaptation
Mendelian population
Animism
Status
12. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
State
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cultural Evolution
Rite of passage
13. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Non-warlike people
Syntax
Allele frequency
Structural-functional
14. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
husbandry
Elsie Parsons
prehistoric archaeology
Central American indians
15. 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
Taboo
Status
Class
Homonids
16. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Superposition
Catal Huyak
Ziggurat
Cultural Anthropology
17. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Africa
Clan
gene flow
Redistribution
18. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Taboo
Cultural Ecology
Middle east farming
Mesopotamia
19. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Technology development research
Social impact assessment
gene flow
Biosphere
20. 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.
Stratigraphy
Noosphere
platyrrhini
Crossing over
21. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
3 types of excavation
McLennan
Egyptian diffusion
Nitrogenous Bases
22. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Radcliffe-Brown
International Development
New World monkeys
primates
23. Thinkers: linguistics
Clan
Ideal culture
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cultural Ecology
24. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Generalized Reciprocity
Stimulus Diffusion
James George Frazer
Gene pool
25. Invented smelting of iron
Stimulus Diffusion
Hittites
Social Darwinism
Potlatch
26. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Cultural Resource Assessment
Non-warlike people
Ethnocentrism
Cro-Magnon
27. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Clan
Industrialization
Unilineal Descent
North American Indians
28. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cognatic Descent
European farming
Kroeber
Cultivation
29. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Olduvai Gorge
prehistoric archaeology
Bronze Age
Lower Paleo Period
30. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Levi-Strauss
Family of procreation
Lineage
Anthropoids
31. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Feudal System
Conspicuous Consumption
Geophysical prospecting
Leakey family
32. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Yanomamo Feasting
babylonians
Revitalization
Gene pool
33. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
EB Tylor
Survival
Polygamy
Austrailia indians
34. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
Java Man
African Economic Organization
International Development
35. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Lower Paleo Period
Levi-Strauss
Fieldwork
Emile Durkheim
36. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Etic perspective
Biosphere
Yanomamo Feasting
Warlike people
37. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Assyrians
Moieties
Neolithic Period
Clan
38. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Family of orientation
Directed Cultural Change
Genotype
Linguistics
39. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Kinship
Religion
Mendel's third principle of genetics
African Economic Organization
40. 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
Levirate
Status
Peking Man
Monarchy
41. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
American farming
Cultivation
Stimulus Diffusion
Applied Anthropology
42. 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.
Allele
prehistoric archaeology
culture
Structural-functional
43. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Sumerians
Neolithic Period
Real Culture
Neolithic Technology
44. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Homo Habilis
Kindred
Hammurabi
45. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Poy Tang Lon
Allele
Negative Reciprocity
Polygamy
46. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Etic perspective
Gens
Mutagen
Functionalism
47. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Cargo Cult
Nuclear Family
Yanomamo Feasting
Mutation
48. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Mutagen
Sondages
Hebrews
Survival
49. 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)
Revitalization
Barbarism
Band
Egyptology
50. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Savagery
Legitimacy
North American Indians
Kluckhohn