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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Semantics
babylonians
Sondages
Allele
2. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Kroeber
Java Man
Asian farming
Petrie
3. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Hammurabi
Evaluation research
Nistri periscope
Yanomamo
4. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
polyandry
Central American indians
State
Greeks
5. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
New World monkeys
Phases of rituals
Dokimasi
Gene
6. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Genpuku
State
Elsie Parsons
Mendelian population
7. 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.
gene flow
Mesopotamia
homonoids
Anthropometry
8. 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
European farming
Industrialization
Birth of Anthropology
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
9. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Absolute time
Gene pool
Ziggurat
Cultural Anthropology
10. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Cargo Cult
Cargo Cult
Substantive Economics
Ideal culture
11. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Noosphere
Ideal culture
Catal Huyak
Conspicuous Consumption
12. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Noosphere
Redistribution
Morphology
Geosphere
13. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Bands & Tribes
Ethnography
Levirate
James George Frazer
14. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Social Class Manifestation
Mayan indians
Myth
Elsie Parsons
15. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Semantics
Quantitative Research
Intervention Anthropology
Mendel's third principle of genetics
16. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Divorce
polished stone
Mayan indians
17. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Production
Greeks
Hammurabi
Gene pool
18. Thinkers: linguistics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Chiefdom
Alternatives
Mesopotamia
19. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Levi-Strauss
husbandry
Barbarism
Mesolithic Period
20. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
platyrrhini
gene flow
Directed Cultural Change
Conspicuous Consumption
21. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Mayan indians
Nuclear Family
Policy Research
22. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Poy Tang Lon
Family of procreation
Savagery
Taboo
23. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Cargo Cult
Homonids
Non-warlike people
sharp edges
24. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Technology development research
Benedict
Malinowski
Non-warlike people
25. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Morphology
Gene pool
Genotypic Variations
26. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Franz Boas
Mauss
Savagery
Individual Peculiarities
27. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
WG Rivers
Mesolithic Period
Dating methods
Technology development research
28. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Referencial Symbol
Structuralism
Caste
Paleolithic period
29. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Olduvai Gorge
Mythology
Electromagnetic prospecting
Unit of Kinship
30. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Qualitative Research
Moieties
Survival
Yanomamo
31. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Potlatch
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Radcliffe-Brown
babylonians
32. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
European farming
Nistri periscope
Egyptian diffusion
Negative Reciprocity
33. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
African Economic Organization
International Development
Ethnography
Savagery
34. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
polyandry
Lower Paleo Period
Linguistics
Legitimacy
35. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Mesolithic Period
Emile Durkheim
International Development
Aztec indians
36. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Alternatives
Balanced Reciprocity
Assyrians
Relative time
37. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Physical Anthropology
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Yanomamo
Genetic Recombination
38. Holistic study of humanity.
Cargo Cult
Anthropology
State
Sondages
39. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Monarchy
Dokimasi
Religion
Egyptian diffusion
40. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Ideal culture
Taboo
Absolute time
Cultural Evolution
41. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Natural selection
Emile Durkheim
Crossing over
Potlatch
42. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Hunter/Gatherers
phenotype
endogamy
EB Tylor
43. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Franz Boas
Crossing over
Natural selection
Kluckhohn
44. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Technology development research
Matrilineal Descent
Ideal culture
Mesolithic Period
45. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
Barbarism
Neanderthals
Technology development research
46. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Adaptation
South American indians
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Kroeber
47. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Emic perspective
Mauss
Social practices
chimpanzee
48. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
Quantitative Research
South American indians
EB Tylor
49. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Catal Huyak
Balanced Reciprocity
Homonids
Barbarism
50. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Status
Hammurabi
Leakey family
Sapir-Whorf
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