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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Paleolithic period
Olduvai Gorge
EB Tylor
Catal Huyak
2. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Feudal System
Kinship
Intervention Anthropology
Horticulture
3. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
European farming
Cargo Cult
Hebrews
4. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Dating methods
Market Exchange
Status
Stratigraphy
5. 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)
Genotypic Variations
Civilization
KhoiKhoi
Divorce
6. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Chiefdom
Sumerians
Phonetics
Technology development research
7. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Gens
Survival
Mythology
Negative Reciprocity
8. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Franz Boas
Morphology
Social Darwinism
Animism
9. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Natural selection
Hittites
Middle Paleo Period
Functionalism
10. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Qualitative Research
Unilineal Descent
Directed Cultural Change
Assyrians
11. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Social practices
Ethnography
Barbarism
radiometric dating
12. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Caste
Egypt
Mutation
Sumerians
13. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Adaptation
Nitrogenous Bases
Agriculture
Geerts
14. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Religion
Status
Savagery
15. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Margaret Mead
Survival
Middle Paleo Period
Etic perspective
16. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Genotypic Variations
Java Man
phenotype
Kindred
17. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
African Economic Organization
Cultural Anthropology
Etic perspective
Generalized Reciprocity
18. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
American farming
Chromosome
Pragmatics
19. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Industrialization
Margaret Mead
Potlatch
Genotype
20. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
mana
Gene pool
Affinal kin
Biosphere
21. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Poy Tang Lon
Cargo Cult
Etic perspective
classical archaeology
22. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Semantics
Elsie Parsons
Monogamy
Cultural Resource Assessment
23. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Symbol
African Economic Organization
phenotype
24. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Clan
prehistoric archaeology
Armchair Anthropologists
Pragmatics
25. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Specialities
Allele
Warlike people
Mesopotamia
26. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
pastoralism
Genotype
Social practices
Cargo Cult
27. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Africa
Elsie Parsons
Lower Paleo Period
Mythology
28. 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]
Franz Boas
Social impact assessment
Margaret Mead
Mendelian population
29. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Homonids
Yanomamo
State
Mendel's first principle of genetics
30. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Nistri periscope
Individual Peculiarities
Excavation
exogamy
31. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
American farming
Animal domestication
Mesolithic Period
Monarchy
32. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Birth of Anthropology
3 types of excavation
Rite of passage
Directed Cultural Change
33. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Stratigraphy
Anthropoids
Hebrews
Feudal System
34. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Horticulture
Egyptian diffusion
Structuralism
radiometric dating
35. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
South American indians
Syntax
Totem
Phonetics
36. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Peking Man
Directed Cultural Change
Greeks
Mendel's first principle of genetics
37. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Diffusion
Clan
Egyptology
Bands & Tribes
38. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Australopithecus
Animism
Cultural relativism
Unilineal Descent
39. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Structural-functional
Redistribution
Sondages
Yanomamo
40. Collecting community data for use by development planners
North American Indians
Qualitative Research
Emile Durkheim
Social impact assessment
41. 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
Theory of organic evolution
Hebrews
Class
exogamy
42. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
polyandry
EB Tylor
Greeks
Ideal culture
43. 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..
Condensed Symbol
Industrialization
Ethnology
Dead Sea scrolls
44. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
New World monkeys
Africa
Upper Paleo period
EB Tylor
45. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Status
Semantics
Cultural Ecology
46. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Affinal kin
Alternatives
Survival
Superposition
47. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Specialities
Directed Cultural Change
Ethnocentrism
48. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Theory of organic evolution
3 types of excavation
Sapir-Whorf
Dating methods
49. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Potlatch
Market Exchange
Religion
Yanomamo Feasting
50. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Phases of rituals
Diffusion
Biosphere
Genetic Recombination