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DSST General Anthropology
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1. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
polyandry
Noosphere
War
Diffusion
2. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Kindred
Cultivation
Social impact assessment
Neolithic Period
3. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Elsie Parsons
Emile Durkheim
Shaman
Cross-cousins
4. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Individual Peculiarities
International Development
Condensed Symbol
5. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Monarchy
Genotype
Referencial Symbol
Fieldwork
6. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
babylonians
polyandry
Dead Sea scrolls
Cognatic Descent
7. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Egypt
Genpuku
Family of procreation
Monogamy
8. Things all people do the same way (language)
culture
homonoids
Universalities
Mendel's third principle of genetics
9. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
old world monkeys
Central American indians
Hittites
Elsie Parsons
10. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Semantics
Fieldwork
gene flow
Ethnocentrism
11. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Catal Huyak
Geerts
Ideal culture
perforated edges
12. 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
Substantive Economics
culture
American farming
Specialities
13. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Genotypic Variations
Chromosome
Condensed Symbol
Genetic Recombination
14. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Applied Anthropology
Taboo
Syntax
Biosphere
15. Traces back to ONE person
Revitalization
culture
Lineage
Dating methods
16. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Yanomamo Feasting
Elsie Parsons
Gene pool
Ideal culture
17. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
husbandry
Dead Sea scrolls
Phonology
Shaman
18. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Affinal kin
Neanderthals
Production
Archaeology
19. Spread of something from one group to another
Pacific indians
Animal domestication
Cargo Cult
Diffusion
20. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Nuclear Family
Pragmatics
Tribe
State
21. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Conspicuous Consumption
Levi-Strauss
Mythology
3 types of excavation
22. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
South American indians
Ralph Lynton
Polygamy
Qualitative Research
23. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Market Exchange
Ethnology
State
24. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Ziggurat
Anthropoids
Aztec indians
Morphology
25. 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
Dating methods
Cargo Cult
Potlatch
old world monkeys
26. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Linguistics
Central American indians
Quinceanera
KhoiKhoi
27. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Biosphere
Cro-Magnon
Policy Research
Mendelian population
28. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
State
Natural selection
Chiefdom
29. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
European farming
prosimians
gene flow
Totem
30. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Ethnocentrism
European farming
Savagery
Animal domestication
31. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Structural-functional
Armchair Anthropologists
Feudal System
Egyptian diffusion
32. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Bands & Tribes
phenotype
Magnetic prospecting
Neolithic Period
33. 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
Band
Absolute time
Java Man
34. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Neolithic Period
Bands & Tribes
State
Cognatic Descent
35. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Tributary Production
Conspicuous Consumption
Sondages
Barbarism
36. 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
Neolithic Period
Egyptology
sharp edges
Modernization
37. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
homonoids
Genotypic Variations
Assyrians
Phratry
38. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Alternatives
Horticulture
Qualitative Research
Ethnology
39. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
McLennan
Taboo
Sanction
Stratigraphy
40. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Mayan indians
Cultivation
Greeks
Status
41. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Cultural Evolution
Animal domestication
Substantive Economics
42. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Natural selection
Paleolithic period
Hebrews
Social Class Manifestation
43. Civilization to invent 'zero'
babylonians
Emic perspective
Shaman
Homo Erectus
44. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Redistribution
Poy Tang Lon
Generalized Reciprocity
45. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
culture
Geerts
Fieldwork
Chiefdom
46. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Agriculture
Affinal kin
Substantive Economics
47. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Formal Economics
Writing
exogamy
Stimulus Diffusion
48. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Modernization
Olduvai Gorge
Unit of Kinship
Substantive Economics
49. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Hammurabi
Franz Boas
Production
Mendelian population
50. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Cultural relativism
Migration of Erectus
Cargo Cult
Hunter/Gatherers