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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Structuralism
Pragmatics
Chiefdom
Qualitative Research
2. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Tributary Production
Homonids
Shaman
Cultivation
3. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Petrie
Cro-Magnon
Levy-Bruhl
Caste
4. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Genotypic Variations
Cognatic Descent
Peking Man
5. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
American farming
Pragmatics
Cultural Anthropology
Central American indians
6. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
African Economic Organization
Dead Sea scrolls
Petrie
Benedict
7. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
babylonians
State
Cargo Cult
Cultural Evolution
8. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Stimulus Diffusion
gene flow
Egyptology
prosimians
9. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Homonids
Mutagen
Moieties
Genetic drift
10. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Levi-Strauss
Polygamy
Cargo Cult
Tribe
11. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Cultural Ecology
Warlike people
Industrialization
Ethnocentrism
12. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Individual Peculiarities
Horticulture
Diffusion
Semantics
13. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Functionalism
Genotypic Variations
Polygamy
Potlatch
14. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Gene pool
Balanced Reciprocity
Class
Catal Huyak
15. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Affinal kin
Substantive Economics
WG Rivers
Cultural Resource Assessment
16. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
classical archaeology
Tributary Production
Taboo
Family of orientation
17. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Malinowski
Egyptology
Pragmatics
Conspicuous Consumption
18. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Leakey family
Generalized Reciprocity
Monogamy
North American Indians
19. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Greeks
Quinceanera
Social impact assessment
husbandry
20. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Allele frequency
Symbol
War
Geophysical prospecting
21. 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)
Divorce
Crossing over
Non-warlike people
Technology development research
22. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
perforated edges
Genotypic Variations
Ethnology
Superposition
23. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Cargo Cult
Mesopotamia
Ritual
Excavation
24. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Affinal kin
Hebrews
Homo Habilis
25. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Moieties
New World monkeys
Myth
Anthropometry
26. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Real Culture
Cultivation
Poy Tang Lon
Levy-Bruhl
27. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Horticulture
Central American indians
Nuclear Family
Ziggurat
28. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Structuralism
Kluckhohn
KhoiKhoi
Status
29. Thinker: social stratification
Barbarism
Weber
Franz Boas
Biosphere
30. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Gene
New World monkeys
Gene migration
Caste
31. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
gene flow
Applied Anthropology
Chiefdom
Ziggurat
32. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Monarchy
Caste
Migration of Erectus
culture
33. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Religion
Middle east farming
Generalized Reciprocity
Savagery
34. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Sondages
Stratigraphy
South American indians
Totem
35. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
babylonians
Horticulture
Anthropology
Gens
36. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
KhoiKhoi
Clan
Cultural relativism
Gene
37. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Cultural Anthropology
Culture
Alternatives
EB Tylor
38. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
KhoiKhoi
Benedict
Horticulture
Ethnocentrism
39. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Weber
pastoralism
Shaman
Sanction
40. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Generalized Reciprocity
Modernization
endogamy
Neolithic Period
41. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
International Development
Anthropology
Barbarism
Java Man
42. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Stratigraphy
Gene
Writing
Fieldwork
43. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Conspicuous Consumption
Nitrogenous Bases
Production
Mesopotamia
44. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
carbon-14 dating
Geerts
Feudal System
Australopithecus
45. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Modernization
Birth of Anthropology
Kroeber
Technology development research
46. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
old world monkeys
Egyptian diffusion
Individual Peculiarities
Evaluation research
47. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
McLennan
Cultural Resource Assessment
Dokimasi
Cultural Ecology
48. 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
Cognatic Descent
Production
Cargo Cult
Genotypic Variations
49. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Benedict
International Development
Nistri periscope
Relative time
50. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Cargo Cult
polished stone
Middle Paleo Period
Non-warlike people