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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Technology development research
Rite of passage
Condensed Symbol
Superposition
2. 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)
Poy Tang Lon
Social impact assessment
Olduvai Gorge
Divorce
3. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Phonology
Weber
culture
Cargo Cult
4. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Dating methods
Java Man
State
5. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Kindred
Austrailia indians
Tributary Production
Phonology
6. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Radcliffe-Brown
Cultural relativism
Geerts
Margaret Mead
7. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Gene pool
Cultural Resource Assessment
Affinal kin
Alternatives
8. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
chimpanzee
Biosphere
Kluckhohn
Yanomamo
9. 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
Peking Man
Sanction
Technology development research
10. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Redistribution
Biosphere
Adaptation
11. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Electromagnetic prospecting
perforated edges
Writing
Poy Tang Lon
12. 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
Negative Reciprocity
Feudal System
Writing
Neanderthals
13. 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
Myth
Totem
Olduvai Gorge
14. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Myth
Levi-Strauss
Chromosome
15. Shorthand - Morse Code
Negative Reciprocity
Condensed Symbol
prehistoric archaeology
McLennan
16. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Civilization
Dokimasi
Homonids
Cultural Resource Assessment
17. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Quinceanera
Monarchy
Relative time
Syntax
18. Thinkers: linguistics
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Gene pool
Yanomamo
19. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Franz Boas
Totem
Mauss
Monogamy
20. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Homonids
Lower Paleo Period
Genetic drift
New World monkeys
21. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Substantive Economics
North American Indians
Genetic Recombination
Allele frequency
22. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Hunter/Gatherers
Real Culture
Yanomamo
International Development
23. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Geerts
Yanomamo Feasting
Diffusion
Mendel's first principle of genetics
24. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Physical Anthropology
Emile Durkheim
Middle east farming
Levi-Strauss
25. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Warlike people
Cross-cousins
South American indians
26. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
North American Indians
Chromosome
Homo Erectus
Stimulus Diffusion
27. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Revitalization
Gene migration
Class
Birth of Anthropology
28. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Barbarism
European farming
Archaeology
Horticulture
29. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Ethnology
Social Class Manifestation
endogamy
Leakey family
30. 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
Africa
Pragmatics
Nitrogenous Bases
Lower Paleo Period
31. Family that raised you
Legitimacy
Family of orientation
Gens
Allele
32. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Individual Peculiarities
Sapir-Whorf
Band
Shaman
33. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Lineage
Formal Economics
Individual Peculiarities
34. Things all people do the same way (language)
Universalities
International Development
Quantitative Research
gene flow
35. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Formal Economics
Generalized Reciprocity
Peking Man
Homo Habilis
36. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Culture
Gene pool
Excavation
polished stone
37. 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)
Malinowski
Crossing over
Sumerians
McLennan
38. Spread of something from one group to another
Ethnology
Diffusion
Civilization
Barbarism
39. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Divorce
Religion
Cultivation
American farming
40. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Ethnocentrism
sharp edges
Geophysical prospecting
41. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Bands & Tribes
Animal domestication
Birth of Anthropology
Superposition
42. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Nitrogenous Bases
pastoralism
Mythology
Mendel's first principle of genetics
43. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
Religion
Status
Qualitative Research
44. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Armchair Anthropologists
Feudal System
Matrilineal Descent
Cultural Evolution
45. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Africa
Relative time
Generalized Reciprocity
46. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.
McLennan
Diffusion
European farming
prehistoric archaeology
47. 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
Ethnology
Tributary Production
Modernization
Horticulture
48. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Mesolithic Period
Levirate
mana
Chiefdom
49. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Cultural Evolution
Divorce
Diffusion
Rite of passage
50. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Unilineal Descent
endogamy
Genotype
Mesolithic Period
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