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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Agriculture
mana
Cultivation
McLennan
2. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Clan
husbandry
Status
State
3. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Applied Anthropology
Middle east farming
Geerts
Market Exchange
4. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
radiometric dating
Unilineal Descent
Geophysical prospecting
Chromosome
5. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Cultural Resource Assessment
Religion
Formal Economics
perforated edges
6. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Ethnology
Social Darwinism
Weber
Cultivation
7. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
James George Frazer
Savagery
Non-warlike people
Lineage
8. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Phonology
Genetic Recombination
Real Culture
Schliemann
9. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Elsie Parsons
Survival
Moieties
Symbol
10. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Sapir-Whorf
Culture
Individual Peculiarities
Feudal System
11. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Anthropology
primates
International Development
Cargo Cult
12. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Archaeology
Benedict
Physical Anthropology
13. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Condensed Symbol
Sapir-Whorf
Kluckhohn
Specialities
14. Spread of something from one group to another
Hunter/Gatherers
Revitalization
Radcliffe-Brown
Diffusion
15. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Anthropology
Social impact assessment
Non-warlike people
Relative time
16. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Gene migration
Allele
Phases of rituals
Pragmatics
17. (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
Stimulus Diffusion
State
Animism
prehistoric archaeology
18. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Technology development research
Chromosome
Functionalism
prosimians
19. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Chiefdom
Moieties
Semantics
Social Class Manifestation
20. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
endogamy
babylonians
Catal Huyak
Hittites
21. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Weber
Functionalism
Nitrogenous Bases
Kinship
22. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
Anthropology
Chromosome
Potlatch
23. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Genpuku
Benedict
Levirate
Cultivation
24. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
phenotype
Middle Paleo Period
Dead Sea scrolls
Mesopotamia
25. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
polished stone
Shaman
polyandry
Referencial Symbol
26. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Ralph Lynton
gene flow
Market Exchange
homonoids
27. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Weber
Genetic drift
KhoiKhoi
Radcliffe-Brown
28. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
Allele
Genetic drift
Sapir-Whorf
29. 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.
homonoids
Geerts
culture
Noosphere
30. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Australopithecus
Mesolithic Period
Physical Anthropology
Anthropometry
31. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Agriculture
Biosphere
Gene
32. 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.
Theory of organic evolution
Referencial Symbol
prehistoric archaeology
Migration of Erectus
33. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Intervention Anthropology
polyandry
Unilineal Descent
Animism
34. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Writing
Status
Phonetics
Potlatch
35. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Cro-Magnon
Affinal kin
Tributary Production
Chiefdom
36. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Cultural Ecology
Mutagen
Individual Peculiarities
Phonology
37. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Social practices
Ethnology
Hammurabi
Elsie Parsons
38. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Social Class Manifestation
Phonology
Rite of passage
Moieties
39. Thinker: social stratification
Pacific indians
carbon-14 dating
Weber
Social Class Manifestation
40. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Policy Research
Structuralism
Generalized Reciprocity
Benedict
41. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
DNA
old world monkeys
Unit of Kinship
Mendelian population
42. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
homonoids
Mendel's first principle of genetics
EB Tylor
Technology development research
43. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Greeks
Central American indians
Olduvai Gorge
homonoids
44. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Structural-functional
Excavation
Ralph Lynton
Mendel's second principle of genetics
45. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Anthropometry
Mary Douglas Leakey
Polygamy
46. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Unit of Kinship
James George Frazer
Relative time
husbandry
47. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Formal Economics
Migration of Erectus
Homo Erectus
Java Man
48. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Nitrogenous Bases
Formal Economics
Animal domestication
Tributary Production
49. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Stratigraphy
Levy-Bruhl
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Yanomamo
50. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Africa
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnology