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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Tributary Production
Sanction
Moieties
Writing
2. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Status
Adaptation
Physical Anthropology
Assyrians
3. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Diffusion
Benedict
Ritual
endogamy
4. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Social Darwinism
Industrialization
Nitrogenous Bases
Ethnocentrism
5. Spread of something from one group to another
Mendelian population
3 types of excavation
gene flow
Diffusion
6. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Sumerians
Technology development research
Clan
Cognatic Descent
7. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Cultural Resource Assessment
Unit of Kinship
Fieldwork
Symbol
8. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Class
Family of orientation
Agriculture
Chromosome
9. 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
European farming
Bands & Tribes
Diffusion
Redistribution
10. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Sondages
Assyrians
Cargo Cult
Tribe
11. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Dating methods
polyandry
Franz Boas
Yanomamo
12. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Culture
Applied Anthropology
Homonids
Writing
13. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Horticulture
Animal domestication
Petrie
Redistribution
14. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
classical archaeology
Cargo Cult
Negative Reciprocity
15. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
carbon-14 dating
Yanomamo Feasting
Levi-Strauss
16. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
old world monkeys
Paleolithic period
Tributary Production
Religion
17. Invented smelting of iron
Redistribution
Affinal kin
Genpuku
Hittites
18. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Allele frequency
Mutation
Intervention Anthropology
19. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Applied Anthropology
mana
prehistoric archaeology
Reciprocity
20. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Kindred
Mayan indians
Affinal kin
21. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Structural-functional
Bands & Tribes
Ralph Lynton
Animism
22. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Archaeology
African Economic Organization
Neolithic Period
Central American indians
23. Traces back to ONE person
Lineage
Technology development research
Caste
Asian farming
24. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Chiefdom
Birth of Anthropology
Ethnology
Australopithecus
25. 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
Quantitative Research
Mesolithic Period
Hittites
Genotypic Variations
26. 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
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Paleolithic period
Linguistics
Peking Man
27. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Feudal System
Homo Erectus
Middle Paleo Period
Real Culture
28. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
perforated edges
radiometric dating
James George Frazer
Electromagnetic prospecting
29. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Religion
Sanction
Middle east farming
Market Exchange
30. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Catal Huyak
polished stone
Hunter/Gatherers
Animal domestication
31. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Morphology
War
Affinal kin
mana
32. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Genetic drift
Unilineal Descent
Paleolithic period
Alternatives
33. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Caste
Sapir-Whorf
Divorce
Geosphere
34. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Cargo Cult
Rite of passage
Phratry
Homonids
35. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Genpuku
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Caste
Kluckhohn
36. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Stratigraphy
Religion
Tributary Production
37. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Australopithecus
Etic perspective
Mauss
Religion
38. 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)
chimpanzee
Social Darwinism
Sondages
Anthropology
39. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
exogamy
Cultural Anthropology
Geosphere
Quantitative Research
40. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Margaret Mead
Lower Paleo Period
Rite of passage
Austrailia indians
41. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Superposition
Generalized Reciprocity
Geosphere
42. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Nistri periscope
Hammurabi
Policy Research
Assyrians
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.
Leakey family
Olduvai Gorge
Physical Anthropology
Tribe
44. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Generalized Reciprocity
Dokimasi
Family of procreation
45. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
KhoiKhoi
Homo Erectus
Animal domestication
Revitalization
46. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
platyrrhini
Egyptian diffusion
Mary Douglas Leakey
Java Man
47. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Market Exchange
Emic perspective
Catal Huyak
Ritual
48. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Kroeber
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Gene pool
African Economic Organization
49. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Cognatic Descent
Tributary Production
Negative Reciprocity
Balanced Reciprocity
50. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Substantive Economics
Dokimasi
Religion
Syntax