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DSST General Anthropology
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1. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Specialities
Monogamy
Universalities
3 types of excavation
2. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
platyrrhini
Anthropology
3 types of excavation
Cro-Magnon
3. 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
Paleolithic period
Peking Man
Barbarism
International Development
4. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
South American indians
Bands & Tribes
Gene migration
Class
5. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Genotype
Kluckhohn
Alternatives
Affinal kin
6. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Mutation
Middle east farming
Neolithic Technology
Mauss
7. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Social impact assessment
Policy Research
Bronze Age
Biosphere
8. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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9. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Animism
Totem
Cultural Ecology
Modernization
10. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Yanomamo
Nistri periscope
Status
Anthropology
11. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Symbol
Market Exchange
North American Indians
Cultural relativism
12. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Linguistics
DNA
Central American indians
Clan
13. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Java Man
sharp edges
Etic perspective
American farming
14. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Paleolithic period
Catal Huyak
Genetic drift
classical archaeology
15. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Universalities
Allele frequency
Genotype
Writing
16. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Pragmatics
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Symbol
Conspicuous Consumption
17. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animal domestication
Sondages
Upper Paleo period
Allele frequency
18. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Noosphere
Electromagnetic prospecting
Divorce
19. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Egypt
Petrie
Legitimacy
Sapir-Whorf
20. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Mythology
Greeks
Ideal culture
Social Darwinism
21. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Hunter/Gatherers
Theory of organic evolution
Status
Electromagnetic prospecting
22. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Stimulus Diffusion
Genotypic Variations
Potlatch
pastoralism
23. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
platyrrhini
Genetic Recombination
Chiefdom
Status
24. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
phenotype
Diffusion
Migration of Erectus
Yanomamo Feasting
25. Traces back to ONE person
Cultural Evolution
gene flow
Yanomamo
Lineage
26. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Radcliffe-Brown
State
Clan
chimpanzee
27. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Etic perspective
Polygamy
Symbol
Semantics
28. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Middle east farming
Ralph Lynton
International Development
Homo Erectus
29. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Ziggurat
Hunter/Gatherers
Pacific indians
radiometric dating
30. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Allele
Referencial Symbol
Status
Cargo Cult
31. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Modernization
Feudal System
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Diffusion
32. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cultivation
Family of procreation
Etic perspective
Emic perspective
33. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Ritual
primates
Phonology
exogamy
34. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Genpuku
Ralph Lynton
American farming
Poy Tang Lon
35. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
exogamy
Reciprocity
KhoiKhoi
State
36. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Cargo Cult
Industrialization
gene flow
Cognatic Descent
37. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
prosimians
Qualitative Research
Genetic drift
chimpanzee
38. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Excavation
Semantics
Savagery
Sondages
39. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Ethnography
Cargo Cult
Leakey family
Austrailia indians
40. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Qualitative Research
Geophysical prospecting
Functionalism
Poy Tang Lon
41. 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
Greeks
Alternatives
pastoralism
42. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Mutation
Paleolithic period
Neolithic Technology
Neanderthals
43. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Central American indians
Emile Durkheim
Fieldwork
Anthropometry
44. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Fieldwork
Culture
EB Tylor
45. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Unit of Kinship
Linguistics
Ideal culture
Bands & Tribes
46. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
Yanomamo
Mythology
Cross-cousins
47. 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
Linguistics
Reciprocity
Yanomamo
48. 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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49. 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.
Emic perspective
Family of procreation
Structuralism
Malinowski
50. Things all people do the same way (language)
Universalities
Elsie Parsons
Divorce
Cultivation
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