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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Family of procreation
Symbol
Phratry
Cultural relativism
2. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Linguistics
Asian farming
Gene pool
Lineage
3. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animal domestication
old world monkeys
Genotype
Semantics
4. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Poy Tang Lon
Clan
Writing
polished stone
5. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Mutation
Redistribution
Malinowski
Mutagen
6. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Anthropometry
Cultural Evolution
Armchair Anthropologists
Technology development research
7. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
Savagery
European farming
Individual Peculiarities
Geosphere
8. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Religion
Cultural Resource Assessment
Tribe
Intervention Anthropology
9. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Gene
Feudal System
Kinship
Hebrews
10. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Qualitative Research
Polygamy
Shaman
11. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Kroeber
Egypt
Fieldwork
Industrialization
12. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
Genpuku
Reciprocity
Animism
Superposition
13. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Animal domestication
Cognatic Descent
Nitrogenous Bases
Production
14. 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)
Mutation
endogamy
Phratry
Phonology
15. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Crossing over
Monarchy
Poy Tang Lon
16. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Stratigraphy
Structuralism
Alternatives
Franz Boas
17. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Cargo Cult
Benedict
South American indians
Revitalization
18. 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
gene flow
Benedict
Unilineal Descent
Redistribution
19. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
Etic perspective
Market Exchange
Horticulture
20. Spread of something from one group to another
McLennan
homonoids
Diffusion
Asian farming
21. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
South American indians
Etic perspective
Yanomamo
22. Family that raised you
Evaluation research
Genpuku
Family of orientation
Cultural Anthropology
23. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Revitalization
Noosphere
Quinceanera
Mendel's first principle of genetics
24. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Polygamy
Kluckhohn
Levi-Strauss
Cognatic Descent
25. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Cognatic Descent
Tributary Production
pastoralism
DNA
26. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
War
Hebrews
Moieties
3 types of excavation
27. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Cro-Magnon
homonoids
Ritual
Structural-functional
28. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Tribe
Archaeology
Totem
29. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Civilization
pastoralism
Biosphere
Radcliffe-Brown
30. 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.
State
Ethnography
Gene migration
Real Culture
31. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Barbarism
Substantive Economics
Mutagen
culture
32. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Electromagnetic prospecting
Allele frequency
phenotype
Individual Peculiarities
33. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Mendelian population
Sumerians
Relative time
Ethnology
34. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Cargo Cult
Mesopotamia
Modernization
Genetic drift
35. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Franz Boas
Relative time
North American Indians
State
36. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Excavation
Writing
Survival
Cultural Anthropology
37. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Stratigraphy
Mauss
Generalized Reciprocity
primates
38. Holistic study of humanity.
Referencial Symbol
Social impact assessment
Physical Anthropology
Anthropology
39. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Monarchy
Anthropoids
Radcliffe-Brown
International Development
40. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Cross-cousins
Generalized Reciprocity
Absolute time
Yanomamo
41. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Affinal kin
Margaret Mead
Electromagnetic prospecting
Aztec indians
42. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Bands & Tribes
Chromosome
Mendelian population
Legitimacy
43. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Benedict
Monogamy
Technology development research
Linguistics
44. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Formal Economics
gene flow
Ethnography
Monogamy
45. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Shaman
Noosphere
Levi-Strauss
Phonetics
46. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Mutagen
Class
Radcliffe-Brown
Catal Huyak
47. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Superposition
Benedict
Aztec indians
primates
48. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Genetic Recombination
Taboo
primates
Sumerians
49. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Social Darwinism
Specialities
Structural-functional
James George Frazer
50. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Sanction
endogamy
Cro-Magnon
Noosphere
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