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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Diffusion
Mutagen
Homo Habilis
Relative time
2. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Genetic Recombination
EB Tylor
Schliemann
Mauss
3. 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
Neanderthals
Social Darwinism
KhoiKhoi
Franz Boas
4. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Individual Peculiarities
State
Olduvai Gorge
5. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Absolute time
Cargo Cult
Cargo Cult
Mythology
6. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Myth
McLennan
Benedict
Physical Anthropology
7. (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
Animal domestication
Dead Sea scrolls
Phratry
8. Thinkers: linguistics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Morphology
Writing
Margaret Mead
9. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Structuralism
Agriculture
Divorce
Market Exchange
10. Shorthand - Morse Code
Referencial Symbol
Negative Reciprocity
Sumerians
Condensed Symbol
11. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Adaptation
Ideal culture
Mauss
Culture
12. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Neanderthals
Excavation
Austrailia indians
Allele frequency
13. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Rite of passage
Hebrews
Religion
Revitalization
14. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Religion
Modernization
Theory of organic evolution
pastoralism
15. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Family of orientation
Emile Durkheim
Geerts
Intervention Anthropology
16. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Chiefdom
Upper Paleo period
Stratigraphy
Genpuku
17. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Etic perspective
Africa
Mutation
Bands & Tribes
18. 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
Kindred
Cargo Cult
Potlatch
Cargo Cult
19. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Rite of passage
Egyptology
radiometric dating
Phratry
20. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
EB Tylor
prosimians
Cultural relativism
Anthropometry
21. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Hebrews
Policy Research
Negative Reciprocity
Sondages
22. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Franz Boas
Mutation
Gene pool
Lineage
23. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Catal Huyak
Nuclear Family
Applied Anthropology
Horticulture
24. 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.
Sanction
State
Caste
endogamy
25. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Writing
Nistri periscope
sharp edges
Technology development research
26. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Production
Civilization
phenotype
Animism
27. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Elsie Parsons
Archaeology
homonoids
New World monkeys
28. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Anthropoids
Gene migration
Emile Durkheim
Cultural Anthropology
29. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
European farming
Excavation
Balanced Reciprocity
Kinship
30. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Sondages
Quantitative Research
old world monkeys
Linguistics
31. 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
Middle east farming
perforated edges
Unit of Kinship
Anthropology
32. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Morphology
sharp edges
Condensed Symbol
33. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Social practices
War
Australopithecus
Gene
34. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Directed Cultural Change
DNA
Family of procreation
Anthropology
35. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Cultivation
classical archaeology
Monogamy
Ralph Lynton
36. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
African Economic Organization
Excavation
endogamy
Specialities
37. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Migration of Erectus
Franz Boas
Phonology
Emile Durkheim
38. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
James George Frazer
Kinship
Evaluation research
Industrialization
39. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Civilization
Africa
Redistribution
Savagery
40. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Stimulus Diffusion
Polygamy
Genotypic Variations
41. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Olduvai Gorge
Excavation
Paleolithic period
Middle east farming
42. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
Geosphere
Warlike people
homonoids
Condensed Symbol
43. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Central American indians
Ralph Lynton
Ritual
Functionalism
44. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Taboo
phenotype
Ethnocentrism
45. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Semantics
Animism
WG Rivers
46. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
endogamy
Middle east farming
Sumerians
Social practices
47. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
radiometric dating
Allele
Survival
phenotype
48. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
DNA
Family of procreation
Class
Morphology
49. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Yanomamo Feasting
old world monkeys
Ethnocentrism
Kinship
50. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Relative time
chimpanzee
Genotype
Asian farming