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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Petrie
Mayan indians
Semantics
Nitrogenous Bases
2. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Genotypic Variations
Phases of rituals
Diffusion
Status
3. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
Adaptation
Industrialization
Sanction
4. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
Dead Sea scrolls
Excavation
Survival
Central American indians
5. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Pragmatics
Olduvai Gorge
Peking Man
Animism
6. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Applied Anthropology
Phonetics
Cargo Cult
Theory of organic evolution
7. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Franz Boas
phenotype
Kindred
Structural-functional
8. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Gene migration
Franz Boas
Rite of passage
Clan
9. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Production
James George Frazer
Crossing over
Sanction
10. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Barbarism
Physical Anthropology
Family of orientation
Absolute time
11. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Substantive Economics
Egypt
Mauss
endogamy
12. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Africa
Emic perspective
Gene
Writing
13. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Kluckhohn
Kindred
Mayan indians
Class
14. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
chimpanzee
Bands & Tribes
Status
Directed Cultural Change
15. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Non-warlike people
Cultural relativism
Cargo Cult
Asian farming
16. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Sondages
Radcliffe-Brown
Fieldwork
Mendelian population
17. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
babylonians
prehistoric archaeology
Geophysical prospecting
Neolithic Period
18. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Hebrews
Morphology
Technology development research
19. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Geosphere
Diffusion
Monarchy
Chiefdom
20. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Sondages
Hebrews
Ethnology
sharp edges
21. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Social practices
Divorce
South American indians
Alternatives
22. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
endogamy
Emile Durkheim
DNA
Peking Man
23. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Homonids
Technology development research
Etic perspective
Mauss
24. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Allele frequency
Condensed Symbol
Crossing over
Quinceanera
25. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Chiefdom
Phases of rituals
Social practices
Market Exchange
26. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Formal Economics
Diffusion
Totem
DNA
27. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Legitimacy
Caste
classical archaeology
Homo Erectus
28. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Kluckhohn
Referencial Symbol
Cross-cousins
Structuralism
29. 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)
Emile Durkheim
Religion
Evaluation research
Revitalization
30. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Malinowski
primates
Cargo Cult
Divorce
31. 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.
Noosphere
Gene pool
Religion
Ralph Lynton
32. <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
Africa
Upper Paleo period
Production
Migration of Erectus
33. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Phonetics
Austrailia indians
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Tributary Production
34. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
35. 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)
Mary Douglas Leakey
Crossing over
Social Darwinism
Poy Tang Lon
36. 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.
Natural selection
3 types of excavation
prehistoric archaeology
Conspicuous Consumption
37. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Industrialization
Asian farming
Non-warlike people
38. 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
Redistribution
Weber
Polygamy
Elsie Parsons
39. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Religion
Kluckhohn
Ethnocentrism
Absolute time
40. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
State
Modernization
Potlatch
Egypt
41. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Java Man
Aztec indians
polyandry
Ethnocentrism
42. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
EB Tylor
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Petrie
Ziggurat
43. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Austrailia indians
Syntax
Negative Reciprocity
Symbol
44. Traces back to ONE person
Gene
Benedict
Lineage
Feudal System
45. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Sumerians
Mayan indians
Evaluation research
Noosphere
46. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Substantive Economics
polished stone
Asian farming
Africa
47. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Sapir-Whorf
Chromosome
Civilization
Cultural Evolution
48. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Quantitative Research
Family of orientation
Stratigraphy
Diffusion
49. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Homonids
Monarchy
Revitalization
Mutagen
50. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Geophysical prospecting
Bands & Tribes
Matrilineal Descent
classical archaeology