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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Egypt
husbandry
Dokimasi
Austrailia indians
2. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Bronze Age
gene flow
exogamy
Central American indians
3. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Qualitative Research
WG Rivers
chimpanzee
New World monkeys
4. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Genotype
Dokimasi
Franz Boas
Chiefdom
5. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Cro-Magnon
carbon-14 dating
Policy Research
endogamy
6. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Weber
exogamy
old world monkeys
platyrrhini
7. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Hittites
Elsie Parsons
Savagery
Austrailia indians
8. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
husbandry
Monogamy
Magnetic prospecting
Mary Douglas Leakey
9. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Kroeber
Quinceanera
WG Rivers
Armchair Anthropologists
10. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Hittites
Alternatives
mana
Allele
11. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Catal Huyak
Negative Reciprocity
Franz Boas
Elsie Parsons
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)
Divorce
Ethnology
Malinowski
Production
13. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Physical Anthropology
Hebrews
Family of orientation
Homonids
14. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Cross-cousins
Java Man
Homo Habilis
Non-warlike people
15. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Yanomamo
Directed Cultural Change
McLennan
Allele frequency
16. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Levi-Strauss
Middle east farming
Totem
Emic perspective
17. 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
Cargo Cult
platyrrhini
Animism
European farming
18. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Dokimasi
Superposition
husbandry
Warlike people
19. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
New World monkeys
Dokimasi
North American Indians
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
20. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Shaman
Superposition
Chiefdom
Status
21. 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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22. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Intervention Anthropology
Religion
Chiefdom
WG Rivers
23. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
Natural selection
Ritual
Australopithecus
Yanomamo
24. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Aztec indians
Quinceanera
Greeks
Middle east farming
25. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
old world monkeys
Civilization
Aztec indians
Sondages
26. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Kroeber
Universalities
mana
WG Rivers
27. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Yanomamo Feasting
Austrailia indians
pastoralism
Syntax
28. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
Stratigraphy
Morphology
Mendel's second principle of genetics
29. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Tribe
Central American indians
Generalized Reciprocity
Bronze Age
30. (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
Central American indians
Polygamy
Totem
Hunter/Gatherers
31. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Petrie
Animism
Noosphere
Tributary Production
32. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Policy Research
Mutagen
International Development
Formal Economics
33. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Individual Peculiarities
Phonology
Potlatch
South American indians
34. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Phonetics
Generalized Reciprocity
Conspicuous Consumption
Mendel's third principle of genetics
35. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
Caste
Magnetic prospecting
Gene pool
36. 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
Class
Biosphere
culture
Social Darwinism
37. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
Leakey family
Archaeology
Relative time
38. Invented smelting of iron
Hittites
Clan
Legitimacy
Crossing over
39. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
Middle Paleo Period
Margaret Mead
Levy-Bruhl
40. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Middle east farming
Chiefdom
Quinceanera
Dead Sea scrolls
41. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Writing
Sumerians
Lower Paleo Period
Non-warlike people
42. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Ziggurat
Middle Paleo Period
Totem
Archaeology
43. 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
Anthropometry
Redistribution
Sapir-Whorf
Generalized Reciprocity
44. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Chiefdom
Electromagnetic prospecting
carbon-14 dating
45. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Balanced Reciprocity
Crossing over
Paleolithic period
State
46. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Superposition
mana
KhoiKhoi
Geerts
47. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Petrie
Mendel's third principle of genetics
culture
Neolithic Period
48. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
James George Frazer
Homo Erectus
Rite of passage
49. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Civilization
Yanomamo
Non-warlike people
Leakey family
50. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Aztec indians
Gene pool
American farming
Leakey family
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