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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Geophysical prospecting
Allele frequency
2. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Cargo Cult
Stratigraphy
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Gene
3. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Agriculture
Schliemann
exogamy
Monogamy
4. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Phases of rituals
Catal Huyak
Armchair Anthropologists
5. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Mutagen
Genetic Recombination
Applied Anthropology
Geophysical prospecting
6. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Anthropometry
Functionalism
Mayan indians
Mesopotamia
7. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
gene flow
Revitalization
polyandry
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
8. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
African Economic Organization
Anthropology
Writing
Negative Reciprocity
9. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
New World monkeys
Animism
Caste
Genotypic Variations
10. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Petrie
Franz Boas
Conspicuous Consumption
Morphology
11. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Paleolithic period
Homo Erectus
Chromosome
Stratigraphy
12. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Nitrogenous Bases
Gene pool
Structural-functional
Functionalism
13. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Allele frequency
Ralph Lynton
Gene
Egypt
14. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Caste
culture
perforated edges
Cross-cousins
15. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Allele
Divorce
Polygamy
Kluckhohn
16. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Aztec indians
Elsie Parsons
Crossing over
Neolithic Technology
17. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Hittites
Sondages
mana
Referencial Symbol
18. New family you form when you marry and have children.
pastoralism
Mauss
Family of procreation
platyrrhini
19. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
DNA
Neolithic Technology
Religion
Sanction
20. (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
State
Java Man
Cultural relativism
Animism
21. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
New World monkeys
mana
Yanomamo Feasting
22. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Ethnocentrism
chimpanzee
Hebrews
Mendel's first principle of genetics
23. 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
South American indians
Tributary Production
Potlatch
chimpanzee
24. Relatives through marriage
Ideal culture
Gene pool
Affinal kin
Ralph Lynton
25. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Kroeber
Middle Paleo Period
phenotype
Nuclear Family
26. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Savagery
African Economic Organization
Social practices
Tribe
27. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Condensed Symbol
primates
South American indians
Chiefdom
28. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Malinowski
Cultural Resource Assessment
Egypt
Petrie
29. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Directed Cultural Change
Sumerians
Greeks
30. Thinker: social stratification
Sapir-Whorf
Weber
Ethnography
Hammurabi
31. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
carbon-14 dating
Geerts
Cultural Evolution
primates
32. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
mana
Formal Economics
Real Culture
Radcliffe-Brown
33. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Chiefdom
Phases of rituals
Affinal kin
Cognatic Descent
34. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Australopithecus
Diffusion
Emic perspective
Affinal kin
35. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Genetic drift
Gene
Pragmatics
Genotypic Variations
36. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Status
Syntax
Animal domestication
Franz Boas
37. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Warlike people
Relative time
Emic perspective
International Development
38. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
old world monkeys
Individual Peculiarities
Natural selection
Fieldwork
39. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Franz Boas
polished stone
Allele
New World monkeys
40. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
New World monkeys
Agriculture
Egyptology
Taboo
41. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Benedict
Malinowski
Ralph Lynton
Ethnology
42. 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.
Religion
Mutation
Aztec indians
Civilization
43. Thinkers: linguistics
Mary Douglas Leakey
Functionalism
Catal Huyak
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
44. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Unilineal Descent
Homo Erectus
Pacific indians
Cultural Ecology
45. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Australopithecus
Sanction
Egypt
Sapir-Whorf
46. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Mythology
Savagery
Mesolithic Period
Balanced Reciprocity
47. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Hunter/Gatherers
Cultivation
Fieldwork
Mendel's second principle of genetics
48. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Band
Biosphere
Noosphere
Substantive Economics
49. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Generalized Reciprocity
Cognatic Descent
War
Social impact assessment
50. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Savagery
Hunter/Gatherers
perforated edges
Legitimacy
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