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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
husbandry
Nitrogenous Bases
Lineage
Mauss
2. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Natural selection
Diffusion
Cross-cousins
Cognatic Descent
3. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Pragmatics
Stratigraphy
McLennan
Yanomamo
4. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
McLennan
African Economic Organization
Magnetic prospecting
Archaeology
5. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Middle Paleo Period
Directed Cultural Change
Referencial Symbol
Chiefdom
6. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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7. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
primates
Hammurabi
Functionalism
Feudal System
8. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Alternatives
Taboo
KhoiKhoi
African Economic Organization
9. 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)
Cultural Anthropology
Middle east farming
State
Revitalization
10. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Theory of organic evolution
Linguistics
Matrilineal Descent
Religion
11. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Ralph Lynton
Kroeber
platyrrhini
mana
12. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Natural selection
Franz Boas
Taboo
Hittites
13. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Peking Man
Quantitative Research
Margaret Mead
Cultivation
14. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Linguistics
Savagery
Leakey family
Gene migration
15. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
phenotype
New World monkeys
Ethnology
Band
16. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cargo Cult
Margaret Mead
Cultural Evolution
North American Indians
17. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Unit of Kinship
Feudal System
KhoiKhoi
Morphology
18. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Writing
Mesolithic Period
Negative Reciprocity
Gens
19. (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)
Kroeber
McLennan
Neolithic Period
Substantive Economics
20. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Superposition
Ritual
Agriculture
Syntax
21. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Morphology
Genpuku
Market Exchange
culture
22. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cultivation
Social Darwinism
Cognatic Descent
Ideal culture
23. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Cro-Magnon
Market Exchange
Mendelian population
Pragmatics
24. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Warlike people
Totem
Cultural relativism
Linguistics
25. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Symbol
polyandry
Mendelian population
Status
26. 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
International Development
Dating methods
Agriculture
27. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Excavation
Potlatch
Allele frequency
Cro-Magnon
28. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
Emic perspective
Relative time
Sumerians
29. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Industrialization
McLennan
Cognatic Descent
Alternatives
30. Traces back to ONE person
Levi-Strauss
Central American indians
Condensed Symbol
Lineage
31. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Animal domestication
Mesopotamia
Bronze Age
Reciprocity
32. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Superposition
Egypt
Crossing over
platyrrhini
33. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
phenotype
Greeks
Relative time
Egyptian diffusion
34. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Directed Cultural Change
Intervention Anthropology
Franz Boas
Migration of Erectus
35. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Savagery
Structuralism
Sapir-Whorf
Warlike people
36. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
Paleolithic period
Civilization
Evaluation research
37. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Gens
Franz Boas
Phases of rituals
38. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Schliemann
Tributary Production
Symbol
Migration of Erectus
39. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Chiefdom
Gene migration
homonoids
Redistribution
40. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
Sondages
Genetic Recombination
State
Assyrians
41. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Individual Peculiarities
Australopithecus
New World monkeys
Catal Huyak
42. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Dokimasi
babylonians
Geophysical prospecting
Superposition
43. 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
Real Culture
Moieties
Redistribution
Affinal kin
44. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
KhoiKhoi
Catal Huyak
Sumerians
Syntax
45. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
DNA
Modernization
EB Tylor
Market Exchange
46. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
Industrialization
Central American indians
Clan
47. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Anthropometry
Gene
Mayan indians
Kindred
48. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Animism
Austrailia indians
Stimulus Diffusion
Myth
49. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Writing
Benedict
Genotypic Variations
Allele frequency
50. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Magnetic prospecting
Gens
Anthropoids
Yanomamo Feasting