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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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.
Cultural Resource Assessment
Noosphere
Clan
Ethnography
2. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Neanderthals
Survival
Cultural Ecology
primates
3. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Survival
Monogamy
phenotype
Legitimacy
4. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Yanomamo
Structuralism
Social impact assessment
Elsie Parsons
5. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Fieldwork
Warlike people
Formal Economics
6. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Phratry
Egyptology
Egyptian diffusion
Matrilineal Descent
7. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Allele
Hebrews
Cargo Cult
Animism
8. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Cultural relativism
Chiefdom
Myth
Assyrians
9. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Nistri periscope
old world monkeys
Referencial Symbol
10. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Social Darwinism
Lineage
Class
Allele
11. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Civilization
Middle Paleo Period
Cultural relativism
Archaeology
12. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Quantitative Research
Family of procreation
mana
Schliemann
13. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Formal Economics
Cro-Magnon
phenotype
Syntax
14. 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)
endogamy
Anthropoids
Crossing over
Assyrians
15. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Allele
Africa
Intervention Anthropology
Mendel's second principle of genetics
16. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Franz Boas
Linguistics
James George Frazer
Structural-functional
17. 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
Genotypic Variations
Chiefdom
Hunter/Gatherers
Ethnography
18. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Middle east farming
Redistribution
Emic perspective
Shaman
19. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Linguistics
Egyptian diffusion
Migration of Erectus
Sondages
20. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
American farming
Olduvai Gorge
Nitrogenous Bases
21. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Tribe
Nuclear Family
Generalized Reciprocity
Lineage
22. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Levi-Strauss
Caste
Yanomamo Feasting
Status
23. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Lower Paleo Period
Symbol
Franz Boas
Nuclear Family
24. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Phratry
endogamy
Redistribution
Social practices
25. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Franz Boas
WG Rivers
Gene pool
Structuralism
26. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Referencial Symbol
Semantics
Quantitative Research
Emile Durkheim
27. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Universalities
Neolithic Technology
Neanderthals
Greeks
28. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Crossing over
perforated edges
Cultural Ecology
Functionalism
29. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Religion
Rite of passage
Family of orientation
Nuclear Family
30. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Ralph Lynton
Ritual
Generalized Reciprocity
Evaluation research
31. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Symbol
Ziggurat
Nistri periscope
Writing
32. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Malinowski
Egypt
perforated edges
Upper Paleo period
33. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Morphology
Religion
Margaret Mead
Specialities
34. Determining the success of a project
Cro-Magnon
Evaluation research
Greeks
Polygamy
35. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Allele
Excavation
Chiefdom
Upper Paleo period
36. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Diffusion
Cargo Cult
Mutation
Cargo Cult
37. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Generalized Reciprocity
Clan
Kluckhohn
Diffusion
38. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Substantive Economics
culture
Directed Cultural Change
Sondages
39. (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)
Shaman
Neolithic Period
Poy Tang Lon
Emic perspective
40. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Negative Reciprocity
classical archaeology
Social Class Manifestation
41. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Fieldwork
polyandry
Upper Paleo period
Cargo Cult
42. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
James George Frazer
Gene pool
Magnetic prospecting
Unilineal Descent
43. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Paleolithic period
Adaptation
Revitalization
Modernization
44. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Tribe
exogamy
Religion
Agriculture
45. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Gens
Yanomamo Feasting
Electromagnetic prospecting
Warlike people
46. 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.
Morphology
Qualitative Research
Universalities
prehistoric archaeology
47. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Dating methods
Middle Paleo Period
Kinship
mana
48. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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49. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
War
platyrrhini
Affinal kin
old world monkeys
50. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
babylonians
Ethnography
Neolithic Period
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