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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Polygamy
Production
Generalized Reciprocity
Kinship
2. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Social impact assessment
primates
Upper Paleo period
Gene pool
3. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Gene
Clan
James George Frazer
Cultural Ecology
4. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Ethnography
Substantive Economics
Nitrogenous Bases
Malinowski
5. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Syntax
Geosphere
Morphology
Allele
6. (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
Natural selection
Market Exchange
Animism
Genetic Recombination
7. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Status
Real Culture
New World monkeys
Generalized Reciprocity
8. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Referencial Symbol
Egyptology
Diffusion
exogamy
9. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
sharp edges
Feudal System
Balanced Reciprocity
Mutation
10. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Chiefdom
Mutation
Technology development research
Middle Paleo Period
11. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Genetic Recombination
Elsie Parsons
Weber
Industrialization
12. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Generalized Reciprocity
Ziggurat
Middle east farming
Mesopotamia
13. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
EB Tylor
Leakey family
Genetic drift
Ethnography
14. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Migration of Erectus
Anthropoids
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Central American indians
15. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Middle east farming
Peking Man
Magnetic prospecting
homonoids
16. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Relative time
Savagery
Crossing over
Individual Peculiarities
17. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Mayan indians
Cross-cousins
Social impact assessment
Chiefdom
18. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Directed Cultural Change
African Economic Organization
radiometric dating
19. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Neolithic Technology
Agriculture
Mythology
Conspicuous Consumption
20. 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
European farming
Sondages
Sanction
Upper Paleo period
21. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Rite of passage
Ideal culture
Functionalism
Geosphere
22. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
State
Intervention Anthropology
Hunter/Gatherers
Dokimasi
23. 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..
Substantive Economics
Family of orientation
Dead Sea scrolls
Reciprocity
24. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Animism
Chiefdom
Substantive Economics
Homonids
25. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Catal Huyak
Austrailia indians
Greeks
Tributary Production
26. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
prehistoric archaeology
Hittites
Sondages
polished stone
27. 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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28. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Archaeology
Egyptian diffusion
Unit of Kinship
Reciprocity
29. 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
Agriculture
Schliemann
Syntax
30. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Austrailia indians
State
Feudal System
31. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Peking Man
Linguistics
Production
Mendel's second principle of genetics
32. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Anthropology
culture
Genpuku
Directed Cultural Change
33. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
3 types of excavation
Morphology
Ethnology
Structural-functional
34. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Pacific indians
Adaptation
Survival
Intervention Anthropology
35. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Sanction
Mesopotamia
Mendelian population
Dating methods
36. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
Lineage
Cultural Evolution
Chiefdom
37. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Specialities
African Economic Organization
Formal Economics
prehistoric archaeology
38. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Hebrews
Mesopotamia
Excavation
39. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Physical Anthropology
classical archaeology
40. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Asian farming
Electromagnetic prospecting
Unilineal Descent
Neolithic Technology
41. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
Formal Economics
Mendelian population
Industrialization
42. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Nistri periscope
International Development
Barbarism
Directed Cultural Change
43. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Symbol
Mutagen
Stratigraphy
Homo Erectus
44. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
Catal Huyak
Condensed Symbol
endogamy
45. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Structural-functional
Syntax
Armchair Anthropologists
Paleolithic period
46. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Religion
Anthropoids
Reciprocity
Mayan indians
47. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Specialities
Rite of passage
Bands & Tribes
Quantitative Research
48. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Mythology
Ideal culture
Weber
Conspicuous Consumption
49. (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
Hunter/Gatherers
Kluckhohn
Divorce
Mayan indians
50. 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)
Middle east farming
Austrailia indians
Revitalization
Cultural Evolution