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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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)
Phases of rituals
New World monkeys
Directed Cultural Change
Divorce
2. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Animal domestication
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Allele frequency
Specialities
3. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Sapir-Whorf
Formal Economics
platyrrhini
Crossing over
4. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Neolithic Technology
Shaman
Crossing over
Etic perspective
5. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Neolithic Technology
Kroeber
Status
Olduvai Gorge
6. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Cultural Resource Assessment
Mesolithic Period
Schliemann
Mendelian population
7. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Emic perspective
Diffusion
War
chimpanzee
8. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Phratry
Cultural Anthropology
Specialities
Ralph Lynton
9. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Substantive Economics
Cargo Cult
Civilization
Survival
10. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
KhoiKhoi
Negative Reciprocity
Olduvai Gorge
Culture
11. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Non-warlike people
Bands & Tribes
Individual Peculiarities
KhoiKhoi
12. Things all people do the same way (language)
Qualitative Research
Morphology
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Universalities
13. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Nitrogenous Bases
Ethnocentrism
Yanomamo
Status
14. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Matrilineal Descent
Superposition
Noosphere
Electromagnetic prospecting
15. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Social Darwinism
Aztec indians
Directed Cultural Change
Ethnography
16. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Allele frequency
Horticulture
Stratigraphy
Structuralism
17. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Rite of passage
Geerts
Social practices
18. Relatives through marriage
Poy Tang Lon
Phonetics
Affinal kin
South American indians
19. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Ethnography
Generalized Reciprocity
Formal Economics
Cognatic Descent
20. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Geophysical prospecting
Homo Erectus
James George Frazer
Austrailia indians
21. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Cultivation
American farming
Aztec indians
Social impact assessment
22. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Animism
Industrialization
Ethnocentrism
Mauss
23. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Anthropoids
Clan
Social practices
Sapir-Whorf
24. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Divorce
Survival
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Ritual
25. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Applied Anthropology
Referencial Symbol
Crossing over
Mesopotamia
26. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Mary Douglas Leakey
South American indians
Clan
Intervention Anthropology
27. 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)
Pacific indians
Survival
Phratry
Applied Anthropology
28. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Yanomamo Feasting
Syntax
3 types of excavation
carbon-14 dating
29. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'
Homo Habilis
Animal domestication
Qualitative Research
Emile Durkheim
30. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Religion
Franz Boas
Structuralism
North American Indians
31. 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)
Syntax
Malinowski
Band
Clan
32. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
prosimians
Survival
Mary Douglas Leakey
polished stone
33. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Sondages
Barbarism
Excavation
Radcliffe-Brown
34. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
Ralph Lynton
Anthropology
Caste
35. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Nitrogenous Bases
prehistoric archaeology
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Geosphere
36. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
Phonetics
Chiefdom
Structuralism
37. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Phratry
Tributary Production
Levirate
Homo Erectus
38. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Bronze Age
Divorce
International Development
39. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Mutagen
James George Frazer
Kluckhohn
Balanced Reciprocity
40. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Petrie
Cognatic Descent
phenotype
Genotype
41. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Negative Reciprocity
Mayan indians
Geerts
Nitrogenous Bases
42. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Absolute time
pastoralism
prosimians
Sanction
43. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
Ethnocentrism
North American Indians
Theory of organic evolution
44. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Egypt
American farming
Balanced Reciprocity
Matrilineal Descent
45. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
gene flow
KhoiKhoi
Leakey family
Middle east farming
46. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Applied Anthropology
Franz Boas
Mauss
Phonology
47. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Feudal System
Migration of Erectus
Production
Neolithic Technology
48. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
prehistoric archaeology
Writing
Etic perspective
Real Culture
49. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Rite of passage
Middle east farming
Central American indians
50. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animal domestication
3 types of excavation
Mauss
Structural-functional