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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Specialities
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Magnetic prospecting
Structural-functional
2. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
McLennan
endogamy
Homo Erectus
Mendelian population
3. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Genotype
Malinowski
Caste
Electromagnetic prospecting
4. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotype
Mythology
Middle Paleo Period
Production
5. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Band
Geerts
Hunter/Gatherers
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.
Hammurabi
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
homonoids
McLennan
7. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Semantics
Neolithic Technology
primates
Generalized Reciprocity
8. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Cultural Anthropology
Magnetic prospecting
Class
Sumerians
9. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Geosphere
Mauss
Status
Chromosome
10. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Syntax
Class
Culture
Malinowski
11. 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
Genotypic Variations
Morphology
Australopithecus
Crossing over
12. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
gene flow
Noosphere
South American indians
Modernization
13. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Egyptology
Mendel's first principle of genetics
DNA
14. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Family of procreation
Non-warlike people
Balanced Reciprocity
Geerts
15. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Margaret Mead
Sanction
Hittites
Religion
16. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Petrie
Neanderthals
Phases of rituals
Neolithic Period
17. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
3 types of excavation
gene flow
Bronze Age
Survival
18. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Symbol
Sondages
Social Class Manifestation
Intervention Anthropology
19. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Mutation
DNA
Magnetic prospecting
20. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Syntax
Mauss
Malinowski
Social Class Manifestation
21. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
prehistoric archaeology
North American Indians
Directed Cultural Change
Cultural relativism
22. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Generalized Reciprocity
Diffusion
gene flow
23. Relatives through marriage
Policy Research
Affinal kin
Mary Douglas Leakey
Dating methods
24. Things all people do the same way (language)
Feudal System
Allele
Production
Universalities
25. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Kluckhohn
Writing
Animal domestication
Revitalization
26. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Archaeology
Civilization
Functionalism
Unilineal Descent
27. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
Religion
Natural selection
Alternatives
28. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Cargo Cult
Religion
Culture
babylonians
29. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Divorce
Superposition
Lower Paleo Period
homonoids
30. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Cross-cousins
Referencial Symbol
Mesolithic Period
Diffusion
31. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
Directed Cultural Change
Applied Anthropology
Social practices
32. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Referencial Symbol
Gene
European farming
prehistoric archaeology
33. 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
Levirate
Kindred
Birth of Anthropology
Applied Anthropology
34. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Gene pool
Totem
Pacific indians
chimpanzee
35. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Intervention Anthropology
Evaluation research
Mary Douglas Leakey
Quantitative Research
36. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Kluckhohn
Allele frequency
Balanced Reciprocity
37. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Paleolithic period
classical archaeology
Cognatic Descent
Civilization
38. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
platyrrhini
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Social practices
Generalized Reciprocity
39. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Geophysical prospecting
homonoids
Relative time
Referencial Symbol
40. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Neolithic Period
Hammurabi
Egyptian diffusion
Nitrogenous Bases
41. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Egyptology
Genetic Recombination
Archaeology
Unit of Kinship
42. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Armchair Anthropologists
Neanderthals
Savagery
Geophysical prospecting
43. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Neolithic Period
Franz Boas
Peking Man
Java Man
44. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Pragmatics
Monogamy
Franz Boas
Taboo
45. 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
Anthropoids
Substantive Economics
classical archaeology
Mesopotamia
46. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Matrilineal Descent
platyrrhini
Crossing over
Cargo Cult
47. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Civilization
Redistribution
Upper Paleo period
Morphology
48. 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.
Geerts
Egyptology
Civilization
Structuralism
49. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Electromagnetic prospecting
Kluckhohn
Affinal kin
International Development
50. 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.
Technology development research
Unilineal Descent
Peking Man
Physical Anthropology