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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
War
Mendelian population
Individual Peculiarities
Excavation
2. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Civilization
Gens
Hunter/Gatherers
Policy Research
3. Determining the success of a project
Austrailia indians
primates
Evaluation research
homonoids
4. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
polyandry
Formal Economics
Dating methods
Geosphere
5. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
State
Functionalism
Archaeology
Semantics
6. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Emile Durkheim
Bands & Tribes
Ethnography
Poy Tang Lon
7. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Geerts
Tribe
Tributary Production
chimpanzee
8. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Genetic Recombination
Neolithic Period
Clan
Band
9. Thinkers: linguistics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
African Economic Organization
Cargo Cult
Survival
10. 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
Bands & Tribes
Applied Anthropology
Kroeber
Conspicuous Consumption
11. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Gene pool
Yanomamo
Cultural Ecology
Genetic drift
12. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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13. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Gene migration
Magnetic prospecting
Elsie Parsons
Phases of rituals
14. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Etic perspective
Poy Tang Lon
Middle Paleo Period
Cross-cousins
15. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Myth
Greeks
carbon-14 dating
16. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Genotype
Central American indians
Dating methods
17. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
pastoralism
Homonids
gene flow
Biosphere
18. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
endogamy
Family of orientation
Etic perspective
Divorce
19. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
South American indians
Anthropology
Unit of Kinship
Cognatic Descent
20. Thinker: social stratification
DNA
Weber
Dating methods
Central American indians
21. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Dating methods
homonoids
Religion
Etic perspective
22. Holistic study of humanity.
Chiefdom
Genotype
Social impact assessment
Anthropology
23. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
EB Tylor
exogamy
Reciprocity
Java Man
24. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Margaret Mead
New World monkeys
Agriculture
Biosphere
25. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Social Class Manifestation
Stratigraphy
Hittites
Cultural Ecology
26. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Specialities
Market Exchange
Savagery
Radcliffe-Brown
27. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Migration of Erectus
James George Frazer
Syntax
Religion
28. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Phonology
Ethnology
Alternatives
KhoiKhoi
29. 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)
Mesopotamia
Lower Paleo Period
Phratry
Revitalization
30. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Mutation
Culture
Theory of organic evolution
Symbol
31. 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
Adaptation
Evaluation research
Nuclear Family
Substantive Economics
32. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Non-warlike people
Hittites
Mayan indians
Ideal culture
33. Things all people do the same way (language)
Universalities
platyrrhini
Divorce
Hunter/Gatherers
34. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Referencial Symbol
Class
Specialities
Divorce
35. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Elsie Parsons
Crossing over
Greeks
Quantitative Research
36. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Egyptology
North American Indians
polyandry
Gens
37. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Mendel's first principle of genetics
babylonians
American farming
Anthropoids
38. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Homonids
Referencial Symbol
Geerts
Conspicuous Consumption
39. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Polygamy
Radcliffe-Brown
radiometric dating
Savagery
40. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Balanced Reciprocity
Animal domestication
Phases of rituals
Peking Man
41. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Rite of passage
Genotype
Africa
Semantics
42. 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
American farming
Divorce
European farming
Status
43. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Radcliffe-Brown
Ideal culture
Fieldwork
Chiefdom
44. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Mary Douglas Leakey
State
Biosphere
WG Rivers
45. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Neolithic Period
Allele frequency
Referencial Symbol
Pragmatics
46. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
South American indians
Potlatch
exogamy
47. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Market Exchange
Central American indians
Formal Economics
Upper Paleo period
48. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
sharp edges
Dating methods
Gene migration
Policy Research
49. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Modernization
Animal domestication
Java Man
Egyptology
50. 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)
Social Darwinism
Horticulture
Matrilineal Descent
Evaluation research
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