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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Magnetic prospecting
phenotype
3 types of excavation
Phratry
2. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Geerts
Mutagen
Austrailia indians
Social impact assessment
3. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
EB Tylor
sharp edges
Greeks
American farming
4. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Armchair Anthropologists
Emile Durkheim
Lineage
Sapir-Whorf
5. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Mary Douglas Leakey
Margaret Mead
Levy-Bruhl
Migration of Erectus
6. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
New World monkeys
Cultural Resource Assessment
Band
Biosphere
7. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Cultural relativism
Emic perspective
Mayan indians
International Development
8. 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
Geosphere
Middle east farming
Status
Fieldwork
9. 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
Mesopotamia
Dead Sea scrolls
Allele frequency
10. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Kluckhohn
Phonetics
Modernization
Social Class Manifestation
11. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
DNA
Pragmatics
Armchair Anthropologists
Real Culture
12. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Nistri periscope
Social practices
Homonids
Phratry
13. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Warlike people
Levirate
War
Nuclear Family
14. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Homonids
Religion
Austrailia indians
European farming
15. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
babylonians
Sumerians
North American Indians
WG Rivers
16. 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
Status
Mayan indians
Peking Man
Gene
17. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Structuralism
Cultural Resource Assessment
Divorce
18. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Etic perspective
Radcliffe-Brown
Adaptation
19. 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.
Yanomamo Feasting
Structuralism
Paleolithic period
prehistoric archaeology
20. Spread of something from one group to another
classical archaeology
Diffusion
radiometric dating
Middle Paleo Period
21. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Cargo Cult
Magnetic prospecting
Genotype
Greeks
22. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Non-warlike people
Generalized Reciprocity
phenotype
Barbarism
23. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Gens
Genotypic Variations
Linguistics
Central American indians
24. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Cargo Cult
culture
Taboo
Individual Peculiarities
25. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Pacific indians
Chiefdom
Horticulture
Middle Paleo Period
26. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animal domestication
Divorce
Migration of Erectus
Cargo Cult
27. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Class
Culture
Religion
Totem
28. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Gene
Genetic drift
Mesolithic Period
Specialities
29. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Applied Anthropology
Stratigraphy
Alternatives
James George Frazer
30. 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..
Etic perspective
Symbol
Dead Sea scrolls
Matrilineal Descent
31. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Austrailia indians
Radcliffe-Brown
Franz Boas
Morphology
32. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Electromagnetic prospecting
Middle east farming
Elsie Parsons
33. 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)
International Development
European farming
Social Darwinism
Margaret Mead
34. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
State
Matrilineal Descent
prehistoric archaeology
35. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Condensed Symbol
Radcliffe-Brown
Writing
Homo Habilis
36. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Monogamy
Gene
Anthropoids
Yanomamo Feasting
37. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Writing
Kroeber
Potlatch
classical archaeology
38. 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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39. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Religion
Barbarism
Africa
Genetic Recombination
40. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Moieties
Physical Anthropology
Anthropology
Egyptology
41. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Yanomamo
Levi-Strauss
pastoralism
Taboo
42. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Paleolithic period
Mauss
Superposition
Feudal System
43. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Relative time
Culture
Tributary Production
Potlatch
44. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Tributary Production
African Economic Organization
old world monkeys
McLennan
45. 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
Upper Paleo period
African Economic Organization
Substantive Economics
Allele
46. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
North American Indians
Cro-Magnon
Hunter/Gatherers
Australopithecus
47. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Totem
Benedict
homonoids
Family of procreation
48. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Taboo
Java Man
Phonetics
Intervention Anthropology
49. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Absolute time
Conspicuous Consumption
Etic perspective
Franz Boas
50. 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.
Divorce
Aztec indians
Physical Anthropology
Theory of organic evolution