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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
KhoiKhoi
Gene migration
Hunter/Gatherers
2. 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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3. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
perforated edges
Pragmatics
Hittites
babylonians
4. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Semantics
Myth
Yanomamo
Specialities
5. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Natural selection
Ziggurat
Cro-Magnon
Sumerians
6. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Genetic Recombination
3 types of excavation
Allele frequency
Stratigraphy
7. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
old world monkeys
Allele frequency
Cargo Cult
Greeks
8. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Paleolithic period
Levi-Strauss
Neanderthals
Africa
9. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
Evaluation research
Tributary Production
Africa
10. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Sondages
Relative time
Tributary Production
WG Rivers
11. Things all people do the same way (language)
North American Indians
Potlatch
Universalities
Balanced Reciprocity
12. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
homonoids
Nistri periscope
Lower Paleo Period
Malinowski
13. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Allele
Culture
International Development
Caste
14. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Semantics
Levi-Strauss
Genetic Recombination
15. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Levirate
Formal Economics
Qualitative Research
sharp edges
16. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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17. Thinker: social stratification
Affinal kin
Weber
Ethnology
Technology development research
18. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Kindred
Dating methods
Cro-Magnon
Gene
19. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Dating methods
War
Relative time
20. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cargo Cult
Kinship
Ethnography
Absolute time
21. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Cultural Resource Assessment
Specialities
Rite of passage
Geosphere
22. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Shaman
Levy-Bruhl
Genetic Recombination
Egypt
23. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Relative time
Kluckhohn
Feudal System
Kroeber
24. 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
Potlatch
Nitrogenous Bases
Anthropoids
Middle east farming
25. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Diffusion
polished stone
Yanomamo
Savagery
26. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Production
Warlike people
Hebrews
Geerts
27. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Symbol
Pacific indians
Real Culture
Physical Anthropology
28. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Etic perspective
Geosphere
platyrrhini
29. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Mauss
Cultural Ecology
Linguistics
30. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
State
Stratigraphy
Etic perspective
Olduvai Gorge
31. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Social impact assessment
Archaeology
Band
Central American indians
32. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Birth of Anthropology
KhoiKhoi
Gene migration
Status
33. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Functionalism
Middle Paleo Period
Mendel's third principle of genetics
34. Invented smelting of iron
Greeks
Hittites
Phratry
African Economic Organization
35. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Generalized Reciprocity
Quinceanera
Poy Tang Lon
Diffusion
36. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Yanomamo
Aztec indians
Cultivation
International Development
37. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Armchair Anthropologists
Potlatch
Middle Paleo Period
Neolithic Period
38. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Religion
Stratigraphy
Savagery
Australopithecus
39. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Aztec indians
primates
exogamy
Cargo Cult
40. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Upper Paleo period
Hebrews
Negative Reciprocity
Bronze Age
41. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Horticulture
Yanomamo Feasting
Assyrians
Mythology
42. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Clan
Caste
Syntax
Policy Research
43. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
gene flow
Superposition
Production
Lineage
44. 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)
Divorce
Malinowski
Gene
Social impact assessment
45. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Poy Tang Lon
Levy-Bruhl
Writing
Allele
46. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Genetic drift
Monogamy
Homo Erectus
Levy-Bruhl
47. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Schliemann
Moieties
Phratry
Egyptology
48. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Cro-Magnon
Dokimasi
Anthropometry
Mutagen
49. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Levy-Bruhl
Radcliffe-Brown
Catal Huyak
Mendel's second principle of genetics
50. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Archaeology
Survival
Anthropoids
Mendel's third principle of genetics
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