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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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.
Structuralism
Genetic Recombination
Phonetics
sharp edges
2. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Phratry
Chromosome
Kluckhohn
McLennan
3. Invented smelting of iron
Anthropoids
Referencial Symbol
Qualitative Research
Hittites
4. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Mutagen
Margaret Mead
Cultural Resource Assessment
5. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Etic perspective
Syntax
Agriculture
Kluckhohn
6. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Mauss
Totem
polished stone
Geerts
7. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Armchair Anthropologists
Quantitative Research
Cognatic Descent
Monogamy
8. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Hunter/Gatherers
Social impact assessment
Gene
Referencial Symbol
9. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Ideal culture
prosimians
Gene migration
Mutagen
10. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Natural selection
Magnetic prospecting
Ralph Lynton
Petrie
11. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Linguistics
Superposition
Paleolithic period
Sanction
12. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Negative Reciprocity
Crossing over
Class
3 types of excavation
13. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Writing
polished stone
Leakey family
Assyrians
14. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
primates
James George Frazer
homonoids
Middle Paleo Period
15. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Structural-functional
Cross-cousins
classical archaeology
Homo Erectus
16. 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)
mana
homonoids
Shaman
Assyrians
17. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Austrailia indians
Catal Huyak
Rite of passage
Technology development research
18. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Social practices
phenotype
New World monkeys
Kroeber
19. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Stratigraphy
Egypt
Phonetics
Agriculture
20. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Cargo Cult
Applied Anthropology
Totem
Reciprocity
21. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Savagery
Unilineal Descent
Ethnography
Cargo Cult
22. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Unit of Kinship
Sumerians
Fieldwork
Monogamy
23. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Conspicuous Consumption
EB Tylor
Levirate
Symbol
24. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Horticulture
Australopithecus
New World monkeys
Individual Peculiarities
25. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Electromagnetic prospecting
Chiefdom
Morphology
26. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Java Man
Peking Man
Intervention Anthropology
Neanderthals
27. Things all people do the same way (language)
Genetic drift
Universalities
Cognatic Descent
Cultivation
28. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Migration of Erectus
Shaman
Aztec indians
29. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Negative Reciprocity
Applied Anthropology
Technology development research
Phases of rituals
30. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Divorce
Pacific indians
Non-warlike people
polyandry
31. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Savagery
Affinal kin
Barbarism
Biosphere
32. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Mesolithic Period
Myth
Physical Anthropology
Social impact assessment
33. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Archaeology
Structural-functional
Mauss
Peking Man
34. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Tribe
Biosphere
Monarchy
35. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
Condensed Symbol
Hittites
Egypt
36. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
phenotype
Etic perspective
Non-warlike people
homonoids
37. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
radiometric dating
Mutation
perforated edges
Gene pool
38. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Hittites
Phratry
Symbol
Condensed Symbol
39. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
Substantive Economics
Sondages
State
Etic perspective
40. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Religion
Survival
Levirate
International Development
41. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
American farming
Relative time
Biosphere
Natural selection
42. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
South American indians
Anthropoids
Kinship
Assyrians
43. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Egypt
Cultural Anthropology
Crossing over
Relative time
44. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Central American indians
Geophysical prospecting
Negative Reciprocity
Non-warlike people
45. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
platyrrhini
Geosphere
Pragmatics
Armchair Anthropologists
46. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Sapir-Whorf
Substantive Economics
Cargo Cult
Policy Research
47. Traces back to ONE person
Margaret Mead
Religion
Lineage
Mary Douglas Leakey
48. 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
Biosphere
Status
Phonetics
Potlatch
49. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
North American Indians
Cultural Resource Assessment
Armchair Anthropologists
Cargo Cult
50. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
DNA
Applied Anthropology
Peking Man
Mendel's third principle of genetics