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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Cross-cousins
Adaptation
Diffusion
Legitimacy
2. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Condensed Symbol
Barbarism
WG Rivers
Egypt
3. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Religion
Mayan indians
Allele
Ethnology
4. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Cro-Magnon
Schliemann
McLennan
Ziggurat
5. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Mayan indians
American farming
Cultural relativism
6. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Qualitative Research
Kindred
Morphology
Evaluation research
7. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Petrie
Peking Man
Greeks
South American indians
8. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Divorce
Genetic drift
Nuclear Family
Genetic Recombination
9. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Malinowski
Upper Paleo period
Taboo
Cultural Evolution
10. 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
Social Class Manifestation
culture
Fieldwork
11. Things all people do the same way (language)
Universalities
Industrialization
Savagery
Genotype
12. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Gene
Animism
Mesopotamia
Pacific indians
13. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
DNA
3 types of excavation
EB Tylor
14. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Status
prosimians
Caste
endogamy
15. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
gene flow
Real Culture
Pacific indians
Caste
16. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Reciprocity
Affinal kin
Condensed Symbol
Ideal culture
17. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Levirate
Cro-Magnon
Benedict
Genetic drift
18. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Universalities
Revitalization
Hunter/Gatherers
Survival
19. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
Conspicuous Consumption
Migration of Erectus
Structuralism
20. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Lineage
Survival
Band
Natural selection
21. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Chiefdom
Nuclear Family
Middle Paleo Period
Java Man
22. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Mayan indians
Social Class Manifestation
Excavation
American farming
23. Thinker: social stratification
Weber
Genetic Recombination
Divorce
Social Class Manifestation
24. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Crossing over
Structural-functional
Shaman
Matrilineal Descent
25. 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
Negative Reciprocity
perforated edges
Modernization
Benedict
26. 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..
Functionalism
Alternatives
Neanderthals
Dead Sea scrolls
27. 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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28. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Homo Erectus
Africa
Pragmatics
Phonology
29. 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
Redistribution
Culture
Phonology
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
30. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Dokimasi
Redistribution
Malinowski
Weber
31. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Biosphere
Specialities
Ethnology
Etic perspective
32. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
homonoids
Status
New World monkeys
Peking Man
33. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Legitimacy
Caste
DNA
34. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Levi-Strauss
Real Culture
Cultivation
Elsie Parsons
35. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Structuralism
husbandry
Rite of passage
South American indians
36. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Java Man
EB Tylor
Egyptian diffusion
Chiefdom
37. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Cargo Cult
Emic perspective
Mesolithic Period
Gene migration
38. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animal domestication
Linguistics
Alternatives
Peking Man
39. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Caste
EB Tylor
McLennan
Formal Economics
40. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Specialities
Symbol
Negative Reciprocity
Hunter/Gatherers
41. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Nitrogenous Bases
Phonology
Levi-Strauss
Mauss
42. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Hebrews
Sondages
Crossing over
43. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cargo Cult
Homo Habilis
Phonetics
Cognatic Descent
44. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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45. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Kroeber
Australopithecus
Negative Reciprocity
Armchair Anthropologists
46. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
International Development
Australopithecus
47. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Horticulture
Non-warlike people
Theory of organic evolution
Anthropology
48. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Kindred
State
endogamy
Theory of organic evolution
49. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Australopithecus
Assyrians
Horticulture
Substantive Economics
50. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
DNA
Aztec indians
Ethnology
Totem