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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Phonetics
African Economic Organization
Culture
phenotype
2. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Ritual
Clan
Upper Paleo period
Status
3. Spread of something from one group to another
Levi-Strauss
old world monkeys
Ethnography
Diffusion
4. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Negative Reciprocity
Monogamy
Paleolithic period
Mendelian population
5. 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
Upper Paleo period
Redistribution
Genpuku
Civilization
6. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
endogamy
Homo Erectus
Schliemann
Barbarism
7. Invented smelting of iron
carbon-14 dating
radiometric dating
Qualitative Research
Hittites
8. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
husbandry
DNA
Kroeber
radiometric dating
9. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Kindred
Social impact assessment
Cultural Resource Assessment
Genotype
10. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Gene
Assyrians
Armchair Anthropologists
Linguistics
11. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
phenotype
Yanomamo Feasting
Quantitative Research
Phonetics
12. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Ethnocentrism
James George Frazer
Kluckhohn
Revitalization
13. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Phonology
Civilization
Culture
Electromagnetic prospecting
14. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Real Culture
Market Exchange
Kroeber
Cargo Cult
15. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Specialities
chimpanzee
Hebrews
babylonians
16. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Crossing over
polished stone
Birth of Anthropology
classical archaeology
17. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Family of orientation
Excavation
Myth
Syntax
18. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
carbon-14 dating
Cargo Cult
Mesopotamia
19. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Migration of Erectus
prosimians
Ethnocentrism
20. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Barbarism
Culture
Reciprocity
Greeks
21. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Catal Huyak
Stratigraphy
Yanomamo Feasting
polished stone
22. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Franz Boas
Semantics
Unit of Kinship
Quantitative Research
23. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Upper Paleo period
Egyptology
Modernization
Greeks
24. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Cultural Evolution
Middle Paleo Period
Allele frequency
Hittites
25. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Diffusion
sharp edges
Mutagen
babylonians
26. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Syntax
Biosphere
Balanced Reciprocity
Emic perspective
27. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Civilization
Evaluation research
Genetic Recombination
Gene pool
28. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Superposition
Genotypic Variations
Magnetic prospecting
Biosphere
29. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Bands & Tribes
Ethnocentrism
Emile Durkheim
Cultural Resource Assessment
30. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Franz Boas
Emile Durkheim
Excavation
Cultural Ecology
31. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
pastoralism
Kluckhohn
Cargo Cult
Referencial Symbol
32. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
platyrrhini
Magnetic prospecting
Hunter/Gatherers
Morphology
33. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Theory of organic evolution
Africa
African Economic Organization
Structural-functional
34. Determining the success of a project
Civilization
Monarchy
Evaluation research
International Development
35. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Emile Durkheim
Absolute time
Homonids
Structuralism
36. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
husbandry
Real Culture
phenotype
37. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Chiefdom
Aztec indians
babylonians
Mendel's third principle of genetics
38. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Gene
Egyptology
Genetic Recombination
DNA
39. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Archaeology
Leakey family
Chiefdom
Natural selection
40. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Conspicuous Consumption
Benedict
Kinship
Migration of Erectus
41. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Shaman
Cultural Evolution
husbandry
Dead Sea scrolls
42. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Social impact assessment
State
Morphology
Symbol
43. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Lower Paleo Period
Anthropology
Peking Man
Franz Boas
44. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Levi-Strauss
radiometric dating
Homonids
Emic perspective
45. 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
Applied Anthropology
Potlatch
Warlike people
Homonids
46. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Africa
Magnetic prospecting
Gene pool
South American indians
47. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Emile Durkheim
Taboo
Genpuku
Cro-Magnon
48. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Cargo Cult
Animism
Armchair Anthropologists
49. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Assyrians
Olduvai Gorge
European farming
prehistoric archaeology
50. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Hammurabi
James George Frazer
Shaman