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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Shaman
Birth of Anthropology
chimpanzee
American farming
2. 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
Balanced Reciprocity
Matrilineal Descent
Redistribution
Social Class Manifestation
3. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Mesolithic Period
Levi-Strauss
husbandry
classical archaeology
4. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Etic perspective
sharp edges
State
Gens
5. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Animism
Phases of rituals
Taboo
Greeks
6. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Paleolithic period
Genotype
Production
Nistri periscope
7. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Conspicuous Consumption
Genetic Recombination
American farming
Absolute time
8. 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
9. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
EB Tylor
Australopithecus
Austrailia indians
Middle Paleo Period
10. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Leakey family
Technology development research
War
Mendelian population
11. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Geosphere
Matrilineal Descent
Hammurabi
Chiefdom
12. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Yanomamo
Mauss
Shaman
babylonians
13. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Assyrians
Technology development research
Moieties
Cultural Ecology
14. 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
Diffusion
Hammurabi
mana
15. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Culture
Noosphere
Evaluation research
homonoids
16. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Hittites
Market Exchange
Archaeology
Production
17. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Cultural Anthropology
Geosphere
Sumerians
Generalized Reciprocity
18. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Generalized Reciprocity
Kindred
Myth
Qualitative Research
19. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Nistri periscope
Allele
Market Exchange
Dokimasi
20. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Sanction
Allele frequency
Potlatch
Gene
21. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Ritual
Franz Boas
homonoids
husbandry
22. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Nitrogenous Bases
Rite of passage
Specialities
Superposition
23. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Gens
carbon-14 dating
Stimulus Diffusion
Applied Anthropology
24. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Emic perspective
Ethnology
Mendelian population
Social practices
25. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Austrailia indians
Assyrians
Electromagnetic prospecting
Writing
26. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Biosphere
Family of procreation
Ziggurat
American farming
27. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Religion
Substantive Economics
Homo Habilis
Sapir-Whorf
28. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Religion
Kindred
Schliemann
Genpuku
29. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Quinceanera
Survival
polyandry
Cultural Evolution
30. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)
Aztec indians
Social Darwinism
Geophysical prospecting
Family of orientation
31. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Potlatch
Sumerians
KhoiKhoi
Status
32. Ways to date artifacts
Hunter/Gatherers
Dating methods
African Economic Organization
Hittites
33. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Margaret Mead
polished stone
Savagery
Archaeology
34. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Cargo Cult
Catal Huyak
Mendelian population
Family of procreation
35. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Potlatch
Middle Paleo Period
Culture
Bronze Age
36. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Clan
African Economic Organization
babylonians
Hammurabi
37. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Cultural relativism
Policy Research
Functionalism
Animism
38. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
Africa
Franz Boas
Ziggurat
39. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Cross-cousins
Moieties
Cultural Evolution
Legitimacy
40. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
Ideal culture
classical archaeology
Mendel's third principle of genetics
41. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Religion
Monarchy
Revitalization
Unit of Kinship
42. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
mana
Levy-Bruhl
Magnetic prospecting
Warlike people
43. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
Theory of organic evolution
Benedict
Genetic Recombination
44. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Chiefdom
Levirate
Kroeber
Mendel's first principle of genetics
45. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
North American Indians
Cargo Cult
Substantive Economics
Gene migration
46. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
Theory of organic evolution
Cargo Cult
Phratry
47. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Divorce
Production
Polygamy
Middle Paleo Period
48. 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)
Divorce
Morphology
Phratry
New World monkeys
49. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Ethnography
carbon-14 dating
Monarchy
Sondages
50. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Electromagnetic prospecting
Policy Research
Assyrians
Ideal culture