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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
State
Morphology
prehistoric archaeology
Condensed Symbol
2. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Shaman
Qualitative Research
Natural selection
Weber
3. (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
Phonology
Animism
polished stone
Stimulus Diffusion
4. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Catal Huyak
Lineage
Egyptian diffusion
5. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Schliemann
Emic perspective
Sondages
Pacific indians
6. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Policy Research
Animism
Theory of organic evolution
Ideal culture
7. Family that raised you
polyandry
Assyrians
Armchair Anthropologists
Family of orientation
8. Holistic study of humanity.
Levirate
Kluckhohn
South American indians
Anthropology
9. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Franz Boas
Lower Paleo Period
Syntax
10. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Specialities
Anthropometry
husbandry
11. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Malinowski
Armchair Anthropologists
exogamy
12. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Pragmatics
Gene
Animal domestication
Levirate
13. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Band
Genetic drift
Structural-functional
Neolithic Period
14. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Moieties
Geerts
Dead Sea scrolls
Catal Huyak
15. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
polished stone
Social impact assessment
Australopithecus
McLennan
16. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Neolithic Technology
Aztec indians
Etic perspective
Gene
17. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Magnetic prospecting
Etic perspective
EB Tylor
platyrrhini
18. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Cro-Magnon
Formal Economics
Bronze Age
Paleolithic period
19. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
State
Austrailia indians
Nitrogenous Bases
Rite of passage
20. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
Java Man
Modernization
Market Exchange
21. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Structural-functional
Market Exchange
Central American indians
Catal Huyak
22. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
South American indians
Java Man
Petrie
chimpanzee
23. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
perforated edges
Reciprocity
Genetic Recombination
Archaeology
24. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Moieties
Dead Sea scrolls
Cultural relativism
phenotype
25. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Hebrews
Functionalism
Birth of Anthropology
Ethnocentrism
26. <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
Upper Paleo period
Generalized Reciprocity
Caste
Negative Reciprocity
27. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Mayan indians
American farming
Physical Anthropology
Dokimasi
28. 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.
Market Exchange
Relative time
Geerts
prehistoric archaeology
29. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Tribe
Geophysical prospecting
North American Indians
Allele
30. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
prosimians
Mayan indians
Mary Douglas Leakey
Quantitative Research
31. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
radiometric dating
Absolute time
EB Tylor
old world monkeys
32. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
exogamy
Polygamy
Yanomamo
Ethnography
33. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Syntax
Taboo
DNA
International Development
34. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Non-warlike people
Modernization
Cultural Evolution
Tribe
35. 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
Egyptian diffusion
Neolithic Technology
WG Rivers
36. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Central American indians
Individual Peculiarities
Rite of passage
Referencial Symbol
37. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Barbarism
DNA
Industrialization
Hunter/Gatherers
38. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Class
Functionalism
Survival
Crossing over
39. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Myth
Balanced Reciprocity
Market Exchange
endogamy
40. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
exogamy
Asian farming
Greeks
Alternatives
41. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Levi-Strauss
Ziggurat
African Economic Organization
Ritual
42. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Excavation
Cargo Cult
Cultural Ecology
Relative time
43. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
International Development
Genotype
Cultivation
Negative Reciprocity
44. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Cargo Cult
radiometric dating
American farming
Geophysical prospecting
45. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Status
Margaret Mead
Geosphere
Schliemann
46. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Generalized Reciprocity
Adaptation
Cultural Evolution
New World monkeys
47. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Ideal culture
Taboo
Petrie
Radcliffe-Brown
48. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
gene flow
Bands & Tribes
Quantitative Research
Absolute time
49. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Hebrews
culture
Cargo Cult
American farming
50. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Functionalism
Genetic drift
Cultural Evolution
Mutagen
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