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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Archaeology
Migration of Erectus
Religion
Gens
2. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
Gene
Religion
Lineage
3. 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]
Franz Boas
Olduvai Gorge
Mythology
Chiefdom
4. 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)
Divorce
McLennan
Industrialization
carbon-14 dating
5. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Mendelian population
husbandry
Dokimasi
Catal Huyak
6. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Kroeber
Tributary Production
Directed Cultural Change
Levi-Strauss
7. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Class
Anthropometry
homonoids
8. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Dokimasi
Franz Boas
Etic perspective
perforated edges
9. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Symbol
Ritual
Anthropoids
Chiefdom
10. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Cargo Cult
Structural-functional
Alternatives
Cultural Ecology
11. 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
Cultivation
Bronze Age
Mendel's first principle of genetics
12. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Social Class Manifestation
WG Rivers
perforated edges
Moieties
13. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Structuralism
Cross-cousins
Neolithic Period
Sumerians
14. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Culture
Chiefdom
Olduvai Gorge
Symbol
15. 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).
Gene pool
Superposition
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Unit of Kinship
16. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
classical archaeology
Status
Conspicuous Consumption
Stratigraphy
17. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Genetic drift
Non-warlike people
platyrrhini
radiometric dating
18. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Phratry
Yanomamo Feasting
Absolute time
Hammurabi
19. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Religion
Gene migration
Ritual
Asian farming
20. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
platyrrhini
Band
Phases of rituals
21. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cultivation
Civilization
Ralph Lynton
Kluckhohn
22. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Anthropometry
Mesolithic Period
prosimians
Social Darwinism
23. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Cultural Resource Assessment
Paleolithic period
Polygamy
Ideal culture
24. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Phonetics
Leakey family
Totem
Status
25. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Birth of Anthropology
Cognatic Descent
Mendel's third principle of genetics
26. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
Genetic Recombination
James George Frazer
Non-warlike people
27. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Reciprocity
Social Class Manifestation
Cognatic Descent
Polygamy
28. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Barbarism
primates
Revitalization
Cultural Ecology
29. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Rite of passage
Mendelian population
State
Relative time
30. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
exogamy
Relative time
Cognatic Descent
Intervention Anthropology
31. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Genetic Recombination
Social impact assessment
Warlike people
Neolithic Technology
32. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Pacific indians
Animal domestication
Geophysical prospecting
babylonians
33. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Noosphere
Cargo Cult
Geosphere
Australopithecus
34. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
Divorce
Cognatic Descent
Natural selection
Semantics
35. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Neolithic Period
Genetic Recombination
McLennan
polyandry
36. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Condensed Symbol
Pacific indians
homonoids
37. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Formal Economics
Affinal kin
Middle Paleo Period
Substantive Economics
38. Traces back to ONE person
Aztec indians
Lineage
Sanction
mana
39. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
polished stone
Franz Boas
Nitrogenous Bases
Status
40. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
State
Kluckhohn
phenotype
Symbol
41. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Social Class Manifestation
Elsie Parsons
Individual Peculiarities
Neolithic Technology
42. 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.
Cargo Cult
perforated edges
European farming
Cultural Evolution
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
Theory of organic evolution
Linguistics
Homonids
Peking Man
44. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
Market Exchange
Catal Huyak
Neanderthals
Middle east farming
45. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Quantitative Research
3 types of excavation
Technology development research
Evaluation research
46. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Kroeber
Ethnocentrism
State
classical archaeology
47. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Fieldwork
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Yanomamo Feasting
Barbarism
48. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Social Darwinism
Revitalization
Sondages
Civilization
49. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Magnetic prospecting
Olduvai Gorge
polyandry
50. 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.
Levi-Strauss
Anthropoids
homonoids
Austrailia indians