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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
mana
Cargo Cult
Levi-Strauss
Real Culture
2. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
KhoiKhoi
Cargo Cult
Cultural Ecology
Superposition
3. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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4. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Aztec indians
Central American indians
Genetic drift
Radcliffe-Brown
5. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Band
Production
Neolithic Technology
Policy Research
6. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Unilineal Descent
Anthropometry
prosimians
7. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
exogamy
Social Class Manifestation
Gene migration
Anthropology
8. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Cognatic Descent
Mayan indians
Bands & Tribes
Class
9. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Migration of Erectus
carbon-14 dating
Allele
Sumerians
10. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Technology development research
Pacific indians
Cargo Cult
Diffusion
11. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
Cargo Cult
European farming
Nistri periscope
Band
12. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Neanderthals
Referencial Symbol
sharp edges
Stratigraphy
13. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
European farming
Theory of organic evolution
Excavation
Stratigraphy
14. 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
Divorce
Moieties
Substantive Economics
Syntax
15. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Genotype
Family of orientation
Cultural Anthropology
Sondages
16. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Assyrians
Ethnology
Matrilineal Descent
phenotype
17. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Savagery
Egyptology
Archaeology
Universalities
18. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Policy Research
EB Tylor
Homo Erectus
Universalities
19. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Bands & Tribes
International Development
Natural selection
Cultivation
20. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Religion
Adaptation
culture
Status
21. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Dead Sea scrolls
Band
Leakey family
Functionalism
22. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Australopithecus
Aztec indians
Genetic Recombination
Nitrogenous Bases
23. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
mana
Elsie Parsons
Mendelian population
Applied Anthropology
24. <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
Religion
Upper Paleo period
Survival
Hittites
25. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Phonology
Cultural Resource Assessment
Emile Durkheim
Natural selection
26. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Chiefdom
Applied Anthropology
Sondages
Cultural Evolution
27. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Affinal kin
Market Exchange
Hammurabi
Allele frequency
28. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Morphology
Geerts
Gene migration
Adaptation
29. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Savagery
Individual Peculiarities
Phonetics
Fieldwork
30. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Genetic drift
Chiefdom
Animal domestication
chimpanzee
31. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
Real Culture
Noosphere
Non-warlike people
32. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Diffusion
Hunter/Gatherers
Nistri periscope
Mauss
33. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
Savagery
Gene
Animism
Semantics
34. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Anthropoids
Petrie
Absolute time
Emic perspective
35. Determining the success of a project
War
Anthropology
Evaluation research
Cro-Magnon
36. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Civilization
Java Man
DNA
Ethnocentrism
37. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
KhoiKhoi
endogamy
phenotype
James George Frazer
38. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Religion
Greeks
Shaman
Assyrians
39. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Cross-cousins
Conspicuous Consumption
Homonids
Barbarism
40. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Redistribution
Geosphere
Levirate
Homonids
41. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Individual Peculiarities
Migration of Erectus
Ethnology
Substantive Economics
42. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Qualitative Research
New World monkeys
Mary Douglas Leakey
Homonids
43. 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
Formal Economics
Legitimacy
Mendelian population
Emile Durkheim
44. Things all people do the same way (language)
Band
Mendelian population
Neanderthals
Universalities
45. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Phonology
Alternatives
Natural selection
Middle east farming
46. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Myth
Franz Boas
Fieldwork
American farming
47. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Middle Paleo Period
Stratigraphy
Social Darwinism
exogamy
48. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Hebrews
Morphology
Neolithic Technology
Chiefdom
49. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Mutagen
Redistribution
Technology development research
Unilineal Descent
50. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
International Development
Phonetics
Levy-Bruhl
Olduvai Gorge
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