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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
radiometric dating
Armchair Anthropologists
pastoralism
exogamy
2. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Culture
prosimians
Savagery
chimpanzee
3. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Gene
chimpanzee
Asian farming
Armchair Anthropologists
4. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
exogamy
Relative time
Class
5. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Ethnocentrism
James George Frazer
Stratigraphy
Sondages
6. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
Phases of rituals
Excavation
Generalized Reciprocity
homonoids
7. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Social practices
Natural selection
State
Cultivation
8. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
radiometric dating
Social Darwinism
perforated edges
Ralph Lynton
9. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
3 types of excavation
Social impact assessment
Animism
Animal domestication
10. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Intervention Anthropology
Potlatch
Yanomamo
11. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
phenotype
Anthropometry
Neolithic Technology
Horticulture
12. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Status
Aztec indians
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Mesolithic Period
13. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Mayan indians
Phases of rituals
Leakey family
Shaman
14. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
15. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Clan
Tributary Production
Archaeology
Modernization
16. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
James George Frazer
polyandry
Crossing over
Lower Paleo Period
17. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
phenotype
Weber
Mauss
Middle Paleo Period
18. Ways to date artifacts
Family of orientation
Hittites
Dating methods
phenotype
19. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Band
Anthropoids
Caste
Cultural relativism
20. 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
Moieties
Ritual
Ethnography
21. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Petrie
Referencial Symbol
Legitimacy
Cognatic Descent
22. 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
Africa
Upper Paleo period
Potlatch
Agriculture
23. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Paleolithic period
Directed Cultural Change
Cultural Anthropology
Cargo Cult
24. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
sharp edges
Moieties
Levy-Bruhl
Homo Erectus
25. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Linguistics
Market Exchange
Egyptology
Mutagen
26. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Gene pool
Condensed Symbol
Yanomamo Feasting
Adaptation
27. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
DNA
Hammurabi
Agriculture
Egypt
28. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Weber
Cultural Resource Assessment
Biosphere
Radcliffe-Brown
29. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Cro-Magnon
Hammurabi
Bronze Age
polished stone
30. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Social Class Manifestation
Warlike people
Mayan indians
Paleolithic period
31. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Alternatives
Rite of passage
Religion
Africa
32. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Taboo
Geophysical prospecting
Modernization
33. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Petrie
Social Class Manifestation
Real Culture
Leakey family
34. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Family of orientation
Gene migration
Directed Cultural Change
mana
35. 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
Yanomamo
Crossing over
Family of procreation
36. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Upper Paleo period
Specialities
Cultural Evolution
Taboo
37. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Gene migration
Unit of Kinship
Kluckhohn
Barbarism
38. Thinker: social stratification
Phratry
Weber
Kindred
Nistri periscope
39. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Status
Stimulus Diffusion
James George Frazer
Mesopotamia
40. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Mesopotamia
Armchair Anthropologists
Nuclear Family
Geerts
41. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Warlike people
Middle east farming
Morphology
Ziggurat
42. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Mesolithic Period
Stimulus Diffusion
Kroeber
classical archaeology
43. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Cultivation
Electromagnetic prospecting
Intervention Anthropology
pastoralism
44. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Poy Tang Lon
Sanction
Quantitative Research
Phonology
45. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Policy Research
Qualitative Research
Geophysical prospecting
Social practices
46. 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
Modernization
Semantics
endogamy
Formal Economics
47. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Biosphere
phenotype
Matrilineal Descent
classical archaeology
48. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
classical archaeology
Egyptology
radiometric dating
Rite of passage
49. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Status
Cultivation
Pacific indians
Monogamy
50. Spread of something from one group to another
State
Armchair Anthropologists
Diffusion
Natural selection