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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Biosphere
Kindred
Chromosome
Emic perspective
2. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Quinceanera
Greeks
Intervention Anthropology
husbandry
3. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Animism
Cultural Ecology
Egypt
Cargo Cult
4. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Real Culture
Middle east farming
Polygamy
Chiefdom
5. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Gene pool
Status
Nuclear Family
Unilineal Descent
6. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
babylonians
Theory of organic evolution
Shaman
Franz Boas
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
Adaptation
Modernization
Gene
European farming
8. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Kroeber
Diffusion
exogamy
African Economic Organization
9. 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)
Mauss
Etic perspective
Family of procreation
Phratry
10. 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)
Genotype
Assyrians
Genpuku
North American Indians
11. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Formal Economics
Unilineal Descent
Neolithic Period
pastoralism
12. 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.
Physical Anthropology
prehistoric archaeology
Kroeber
Weber
13. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Potlatch
McLennan
Electromagnetic prospecting
Quinceanera
14. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Unit of Kinship
Social impact assessment
Tribe
Mutation
15. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Allele
Gene migration
Franz Boas
Specialities
16. 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.
Culture
Genpuku
DNA
Civilization
17. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Directed Cultural Change
Relative time
Sumerians
Genotypic Variations
18. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Qualitative Research
Yanomamo
Cultural relativism
Structural-functional
19. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Biosphere
Intervention Anthropology
prosimians
Levy-Bruhl
20. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Cultural relativism
Radcliffe-Brown
Olduvai Gorge
polyandry
21. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Crossing over
Schliemann
Culture
Austrailia indians
22. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Weber
Middle east farming
International Development
McLennan
23. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Gene migration
Family of orientation
Genotype
Fieldwork
24. Civilization to invent 'zero'
babylonians
Stimulus Diffusion
South American indians
Symbol
25. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Clan
Negative Reciprocity
polished stone
Policy Research
26. 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)
Syntax
Animal domestication
Divorce
EB Tylor
27. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Sanction
Neolithic Period
Family of procreation
DNA
28. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Dokimasi
Nitrogenous Bases
Upper Paleo period
Geosphere
29. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Social Darwinism
Neolithic Technology
Neanderthals
KhoiKhoi
30. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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31. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Franz Boas
Chromosome
Leakey family
Emic perspective
32. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Franz Boas
Etic perspective
Tribe
Alternatives
33. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Morphology
Sumerians
Middle Paleo Period
Mythology
34. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Cargo Cult
Homo Habilis
Semantics
Chromosome
35. Invented smelting of iron
Hittites
Nuclear Family
babylonians
Asian farming
36. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Ethnocentrism
Yanomamo Feasting
Qualitative Research
Austrailia indians
37. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Kindred
Directed Cultural Change
exogamy
38. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Mary Douglas Leakey
Applied Anthropology
Natural selection
39. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Ethnocentrism
Archaeology
State
Middle east farming
40. 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.
Barbarism
Fieldwork
phenotype
Noosphere
41. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Central American indians
Potlatch
platyrrhini
Poy Tang Lon
42. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Cultural relativism
Birth of Anthropology
Lineage
Levy-Bruhl
43. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Ralph Lynton
Phratry
Caste
endogamy
44. Relatives through marriage
McLennan
Affinal kin
Hebrews
International Development
45. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Survival
Family of procreation
State
WG Rivers
46. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
State
Policy Research
Anthropology
Cultivation
47. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Divorce
McLennan
Warlike people
48. Thinker: social stratification
Kindred
Stimulus Diffusion
Weber
phenotype
49. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Redistribution
Ziggurat
Formal Economics
Poy Tang Lon
50. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Middle Paleo Period
Bands & Tribes
Absolute time
Structuralism