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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Genotypic Variations
Poy Tang Lon
gene flow
Syntax
2. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Hammurabi
Lineage
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Geosphere
3. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Egyptology
Status
Africa
Theory of organic evolution
4. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Social impact assessment
American farming
Unit of Kinship
5. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Sanction
Phases of rituals
Central American indians
Bronze Age
6. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Alternatives
Radcliffe-Brown
Morphology
7. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Monogamy
Central American indians
Hittites
Generalized Reciprocity
8. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Kinship
babylonians
Social Class Manifestation
State
9. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Gens
Malinowski
Egyptian diffusion
radiometric dating
10. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Birth of Anthropology
Quinceanera
Mutation
Production
11. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Potlatch
perforated edges
KhoiKhoi
James George Frazer
12. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
husbandry
Austrailia indians
Substantive Economics
Phases of rituals
13. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Asian farming
Anthropology
Symbol
14. 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)
James George Frazer
Assyrians
Real Culture
Allele
15. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Condensed Symbol
Physical Anthropology
Mary Douglas Leakey
16. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Genetic drift
Cross-cousins
Hammurabi
Egypt
17. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
Genetic drift
Olduvai Gorge
Substantive Economics
18. 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.
Barbarism
Petrie
Mesolithic Period
prehistoric archaeology
19. 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
Mendelian population
Cultural relativism
Egyptian diffusion
20. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
Neolithic Period
Etic perspective
Lower Paleo Period
21. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Clan
polyandry
Substantive Economics
Functionalism
22. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
primates
Nuclear Family
Social impact assessment
23. Spread of something from one group to another
Negative Reciprocity
Diffusion
Yanomamo
Cro-Magnon
24. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Reciprocity
Cognatic Descent
Birth of Anthropology
Ziggurat
25. 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.
Egypt
Ziggurat
Noosphere
Production
26. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Ethnography
phenotype
Structural-functional
Homo Erectus
27. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Elsie Parsons
Balanced Reciprocity
Production
28. 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).
Greeks
Unit of Kinship
Mutation
Cargo Cult
29. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Mayan indians
Mary Douglas Leakey
Genotype
Paleolithic period
30. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Malinowski
Functionalism
Genetic Recombination
Gene pool
31. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Gene migration
old world monkeys
Adaptation
32. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
European farming
Nistri periscope
Hebrews
Diffusion
33. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Cargo Cult
Australopithecus
Ethnography
Homo Habilis
34. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
Gens
Superposition
Absolute time
35. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
McLennan
American farming
Africa
Egypt
36. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Sondages
Ethnology
Central American indians
Cargo Cult
37. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Levi-Strauss
Migration of Erectus
Lineage
Allele frequency
38. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Pragmatics
Ethnology
prehistoric archaeology
platyrrhini
39. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Cargo Cult
Horticulture
gene flow
Social Darwinism
40. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
Armchair Anthropologists
Ralph Lynton
Generalized Reciprocity
Gene
41. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Egypt
Semantics
Cross-cousins
American farming
42. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Ideal culture
Genotypic Variations
Quantitative Research
Sondages
43. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Civilization
Phases of rituals
Social practices
44. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Geophysical prospecting
platyrrhini
Allele
Elsie Parsons
45. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Cultural Evolution
Elsie Parsons
Gene pool
Geerts
46. 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
Peking Man
Monarchy
Greeks
husbandry
47. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Peking Man
DNA
Linguistics
Biosphere
48. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
Relative time
Homo Erectus
African Economic Organization
49. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Divorce
Mendelian population
Anthropology
Paleolithic period
50. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
gene flow
Lineage
Cultivation
Middle east farming