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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Traces back to ONE person
Divorce
Lineage
Agriculture
Yanomamo
2. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
DNA
Dating methods
Bands & Tribes
Gene
3. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Savagery
Stimulus Diffusion
Theory of organic evolution
Warlike people
4. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Culture
Intervention Anthropology
Australopithecus
Poy Tang Lon
5. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Migration of Erectus
endogamy
Legitimacy
Unilineal Descent
6. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Gene migration
culture
Sumerians
Myth
7. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
WG Rivers
3 types of excavation
Cross-cousins
Physical Anthropology
8. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Hammurabi
Qualitative Research
Mendelian population
Homo Habilis
9. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Etic perspective
Ideal culture
Africa
Sumerians
10. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Structural-functional
carbon-14 dating
EB Tylor
Cultural Resource Assessment
11. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Syntax
classical archaeology
Cro-Magnon
babylonians
12. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Weber
Cultural relativism
Geosphere
Social Darwinism
13. 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.
prehistoric archaeology
prosimians
Animal domestication
Alternatives
14. Spread of something from one group to another
classical archaeology
Diffusion
Cultural Resource Assessment
Phases of rituals
15. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Aztec indians
Bands & Tribes
Mary Douglas Leakey
International Development
16. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Allele frequency
Ethnology
WG Rivers
Emic perspective
17. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Tribe
Weber
Structuralism
Totem
18. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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19. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Geophysical prospecting
Hunter/Gatherers
Shaman
Religion
20. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Family of orientation
Mayan indians
Civilization
Cultural Evolution
21. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
Real Culture
Paleolithic period
Birth of Anthropology
22. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Chromosome
Mary Douglas Leakey
Cargo Cult
Pragmatics
23. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Emic perspective
Physical Anthropology
Kinship
Ideal culture
24. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Anthropoids
North American Indians
Franz Boas
Stimulus Diffusion
25. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cognatic Descent
Bronze Age
Clan
husbandry
26. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
Upper Paleo period
Gens
Balanced Reciprocity
27. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Relative time
3 types of excavation
Taboo
Culture
28. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Elsie Parsons
Yanomamo
South American indians
Qualitative Research
29. Things all people do the same way (language)
Ethnology
Clan
Universalities
perforated edges
30. 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.
Cultural Evolution
Ritual
Catal Huyak
Greeks
31. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
polyandry
Alternatives
old world monkeys
Policy Research
32. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Structuralism
Condensed Symbol
Migration of Erectus
Noosphere
33. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Generalized Reciprocity
Kroeber
Bands & Tribes
34. (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
Ralph Lynton
Tribe
gene flow
Mesolithic Period
35. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Reciprocity
Kluckhohn
Middle east farming
Bronze Age
36. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Semantics
Mesopotamia
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnocentrism
37. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Excavation
Ralph Lynton
Phases of rituals
Superposition
38. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Neolithic Technology
Quantitative Research
Market Exchange
Referencial Symbol
39. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Ideal culture
Symbol
Allele frequency
Fieldwork
40. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Linguistics
Absolute time
Geerts
old world monkeys
41. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Alternatives
Social Darwinism
Levy-Bruhl
Divorce
42. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Survival
African Economic Organization
Shaman
Ethnology
43. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Mutation
Archaeology
Individual Peculiarities
Kinship
44. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
American farming
Geosphere
Semantics
Anthropoids
45. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Syntax
Horticulture
Ziggurat
Matrilineal Descent
46. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Universalities
James George Frazer
Quantitative Research
47. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Directed Cultural Change
James George Frazer
Margaret Mead
Applied Anthropology
48. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Stratigraphy
chimpanzee
Negative Reciprocity
49. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Crossing over
chimpanzee
Mesolithic Period
Cargo Cult
50. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Archaeology
Superposition
Ethnology
Genetic Recombination
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