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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Individual Peculiarities
Non-warlike people
Lineage
International Development
2. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Unit of Kinship
Cognatic Descent
Monarchy
Chiefdom
3. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Substantive Economics
KhoiKhoi
Fieldwork
Family of orientation
4. Shorthand - Morse Code
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Condensed Symbol
Non-warlike people
Noosphere
5. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Alternatives
Agriculture
KhoiKhoi
Africa
6. Invented smelting of iron
Anthropometry
Gens
Hittites
Non-warlike people
7. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Substantive Economics
Mayan indians
8. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Nuclear Family
chimpanzee
Anthropometry
9. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Monarchy
mana
Yanomamo Feasting
Elsie Parsons
10. 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
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11. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Cargo Cult
Formal Economics
Negative Reciprocity
Chromosome
12. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
radiometric dating
Unit of Kinship
Directed Cultural Change
Writing
13. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Modernization
Sapir-Whorf
Franz Boas
KhoiKhoi
14. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
carbon-14 dating
Market Exchange
polished stone
Franz Boas
15. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Allele frequency
Dokimasi
Negative Reciprocity
Kinship
16. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Mayan indians
Kluckhohn
old world monkeys
Genpuku
17. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
European farming
Phonology
Benedict
Morphology
18. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Kinship
platyrrhini
Sondages
Levirate
19. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Diffusion
Social impact assessment
Legitimacy
Writing
20. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Superposition
Mutation
mana
culture
21. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Gene migration
Mayan indians
Mutagen
Kinship
22. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Tribe
Kinship
Social impact assessment
Paleolithic period
23. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Social Class Manifestation
Family of procreation
Electromagnetic prospecting
Physical Anthropology
24. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Quantitative Research
Geophysical prospecting
Margaret Mead
25. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Franz Boas
Cultivation
Radcliffe-Brown
homonoids
26. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Moieties
EB Tylor
homonoids
Qualitative Research
27. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
Allele
Policy Research
Neanderthals
Birth of Anthropology
28. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Conspicuous Consumption
Substantive Economics
Quinceanera
Cultural Anthropology
29. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Bands & Tribes
Evaluation research
Franz Boas
Referencial Symbol
30. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Noosphere
Agriculture
Family of procreation
31. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Civilization
Status
Social Class Manifestation
Negative Reciprocity
32. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Kinship
Warlike people
Etic perspective
Diffusion
33. (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
Animism
Potlatch
Phonology
Sondages
34. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Technology development research
Mesopotamia
Band
Evaluation research
35. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Structuralism
Genotypic Variations
Austrailia indians
Mauss
36. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Chiefdom
Lower Paleo Period
Polygamy
Social practices
37. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
Status
Class
Kroeber
38. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Weber
Substantive Economics
Genetic Recombination
Pragmatics
39. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Barbarism
Status
Caste
Physical Anthropology
40. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Structural-functional
Social impact assessment
State
Petrie
41. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Caste
Physical Anthropology
prosimians
Middle east farming
42. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Ethnology
Adaptation
Status
Gene migration
43. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Family of procreation
Genetic drift
Redistribution
Moieties
44. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Cross-cousins
Kindred
Cultural Anthropology
Specialities
45. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Semantics
Gene pool
Pacific indians
Superposition
46. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Cultural Resource Assessment
Malinowski
Anthropometry
Taboo
47. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Upper Paleo period
Phonetics
polished stone
Cro-Magnon
48. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Class
Structuralism
Symbol
Linguistics
49. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Superposition
Cargo Cult
Anthropology
Monarchy
50. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
pastoralism
Cross-cousins
Sumerians
Savagery
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