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DSST General Anthropology
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1. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Geophysical prospecting
McLennan
Sumerians
Religion
2. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Genotypic Variations
Mendelian population
Magnetic prospecting
EB Tylor
3. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Chiefdom
Survival
Linguistics
Unilineal Descent
4. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Policy Research
Cultural relativism
Migration of Erectus
Anthropometry
5. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Mayan indians
Bronze Age
Culture
Anthropometry
6. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Mutation
Superposition
Java Man
classical archaeology
7. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Quantitative Research
Tribe
Greeks
Cargo Cult
8. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Homo Habilis
Morphology
Assyrians
Gens
9. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Middle Paleo Period
exogamy
Sanction
Margaret Mead
10. 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.
Central American indians
WG Rivers
prehistoric archaeology
Neanderthals
11. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Horticulture
Ralph Lynton
Taboo
Condensed Symbol
12. 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)
Malinowski
Mesopotamia
Conspicuous Consumption
Myth
13. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Production
State
Austrailia indians
Hebrews
14. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Cargo Cult
gene flow
Ideal culture
Nuclear Family
15. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Dating methods
Etic perspective
Geosphere
Emile Durkheim
16. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Geophysical prospecting
Animism
Ethnocentrism
Benedict
17. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Revitalization
Gene
Stratigraphy
Anthropoids
18. 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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19. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Social Darwinism
Status
Family of orientation
Non-warlike people
20. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Gens
Yanomamo
Kindred
Kroeber
21. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Homonids
Franz Boas
Specialities
Asian farming
22. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Directed Cultural Change
Africa
Genotypic Variations
husbandry
23. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Etic perspective
Cargo Cult
Superposition
Balanced Reciprocity
24. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Assyrians
Applied Anthropology
Shaman
Culture
25. 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)
Cross-cousins
Poy Tang Lon
Legitimacy
Divorce
26. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Cro-Magnon
Qualitative Research
Cargo Cult
Schliemann
27. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Hittites
Market Exchange
Diffusion
28. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Sapir-Whorf
Kinship
Upper Paleo period
Conspicuous Consumption
29. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Olduvai Gorge
Yanomamo
Kinship
husbandry
30. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
James George Frazer
Cargo Cult
Writing
Catal Huyak
31. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Status
Qualitative Research
Sapir-Whorf
Physical Anthropology
32. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Middle east farming
polished stone
Intervention Anthropology
Superposition
33. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
North American Indians
Family of orientation
Middle Paleo Period
34. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Stratigraphy
Chiefdom
Central American indians
Directed Cultural Change
35. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Ethnography
Sondages
Policy Research
Schliemann
36. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Ethnology
Gene
Diffusion
Lower Paleo Period
37. Ways to date artifacts
Chiefdom
Moieties
Dating methods
Superposition
38. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Chiefdom
Tributary Production
Savagery
39. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Geosphere
Linguistics
Biosphere
40. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Mauss
prosimians
Social Darwinism
Ritual
41. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Feudal System
Franz Boas
Syntax
Family of procreation
42. Spread of something from one group to another
Unit of Kinship
Relative time
Diffusion
Theory of organic evolution
43. 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
Formal Economics
Geophysical prospecting
Ralph Lynton
Lineage
44. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Emic perspective
Catal Huyak
husbandry
45. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Market Exchange
Homonids
phenotype
Genetic Recombination
46. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Peking Man
Tribe
Ethnology
husbandry
47. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Mesolithic Period
Yanomamo
Cargo Cult
endogamy
48. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Superposition
Gene pool
Rite of passage
primates
49. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
prosimians
Egypt
Intervention Anthropology
Levirate
50. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
War
Kroeber
Civilization