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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
Mendelian population
Taboo
Dead Sea scrolls
2. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Agriculture
Ethnocentrism
African Economic Organization
Hittites
3. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Elsie Parsons
Relative time
Totem
Animal domestication
4. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Mutagen
Referencial Symbol
Hammurabi
Culture
5. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Family of orientation
Dead Sea scrolls
prehistoric archaeology
mana
6. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Monarchy
Phonetics
Status
Levirate
7. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Cro-Magnon
Redistribution
DNA
platyrrhini
8. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Nitrogenous Bases
Band
EB Tylor
Benedict
9. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Anthropometry
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Archaeology
10. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
Aztec indians
Hittites
Mendel's first principle of genetics
11. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
culture
Archaeology
Bands & Tribes
Totem
12. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Civilization
Reciprocity
Hammurabi
Tribe
13. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Austrailia indians
Fieldwork
prehistoric archaeology
Gens
14. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Migration of Erectus
Symbol
Social practices
prehistoric archaeology
15. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Feudal System
Cargo Cult
Magnetic prospecting
Symbol
16. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Olduvai Gorge
phenotype
Divorce
Kluckhohn
17. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Symbol
radiometric dating
Anthropoids
Formal Economics
18. 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
Genotypic Variations
Evaluation research
Production
Superposition
19. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Phratry
culture
Australopithecus
20. Shorthand - Morse Code
Warlike people
Franz Boas
Ziggurat
Condensed Symbol
21. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Structuralism
Pragmatics
Diffusion
Mendel's second principle of genetics
22. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
chimpanzee
Balanced Reciprocity
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Absolute time
23. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Semantics
Generalized Reciprocity
24. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Totem
Moieties
Fieldwork
Writing
25. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Generalized Reciprocity
Stratigraphy
Moieties
endogamy
26. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Pacific indians
Lower Paleo Period
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Mendel's first principle of genetics
27. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Relative time
Catal Huyak
Allele frequency
28. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Migration of Erectus
Generalized Reciprocity
Yanomamo Feasting
prosimians
29. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Hammurabi
James George Frazer
Formal Economics
Universalities
30. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
War
Real Culture
Cargo Cult
mana
31. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Olduvai Gorge
Kluckhohn
3 types of excavation
Potlatch
32. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Production
chimpanzee
babylonians
Neolithic Technology
33. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Quantitative Research
Asian farming
Market Exchange
Egyptian diffusion
34. Invented smelting of iron
carbon-14 dating
Mutagen
Hittites
Gene pool
35. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Market Exchange
Anthropoids
Monarchy
Archaeology
36. 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
African Economic Organization
Kindred
Assyrians
37. 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.
Sanction
prehistoric archaeology
Egyptology
Production
38. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
KhoiKhoi
Paleolithic period
Conspicuous Consumption
Emile Durkheim
39. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Warlike people
Sondages
Poy Tang Lon
McLennan
40. Determining the success of a project
polyandry
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Evaluation research
Social Class Manifestation
41. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
gene flow
Linguistics
Matrilineal Descent
Structural-functional
42. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Functionalism
Myth
sharp edges
Ritual
43. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Barbarism
Status
chimpanzee
pastoralism
44. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Diffusion
Gene migration
Caste
radiometric dating
45. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Applied Anthropology
homonoids
Birth of Anthropology
Olduvai Gorge
46. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Policy Research
Dokimasi
Monarchy
Market Exchange
47. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Status
Cross-cousins
Bands & Tribes
perforated edges
48. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Redistribution
Java Man
State
Dead Sea scrolls
49. 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
polished stone
Modernization
Quantitative Research
Social Darwinism
50. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Hunter/Gatherers
Gene
Emile Durkheim
Cultural Ecology