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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
African Economic Organization
old world monkeys
Kroeber
Polygamy
2. 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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3. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Upper Paleo period
South American indians
Class
phenotype
4. Family that raised you
Quantitative Research
Family of orientation
Superposition
Condensed Symbol
5. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Potlatch
chimpanzee
Genpuku
Genetic Recombination
6. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
McLennan
babylonians
Middle Paleo Period
Paleolithic period
7. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Gene migration
James George Frazer
Cultural Resource Assessment
Phratry
8. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
New World monkeys
polyandry
Barbarism
Quinceanera
9. 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.
Qualitative Research
Central American indians
prehistoric archaeology
Cultural Evolution
10. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Hebrews
Africa
Ethnography
Universalities
11. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Electromagnetic prospecting
Sanction
Qualitative Research
culture
12. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Universalities
Cargo Cult
Individual Peculiarities
Hittites
13. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Ideal culture
Monarchy
Cultural Ecology
Horticulture
14. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Cargo Cult
International Development
Genetic drift
Moieties
15. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Generalized Reciprocity
Relative time
Rite of passage
Quantitative Research
16. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Nistri periscope
Substantive Economics
chimpanzee
Condensed Symbol
17. 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.
chimpanzee
State
Animal domestication
Cro-Magnon
18. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Armchair Anthropologists
Referencial Symbol
Cargo Cult
Nuclear Family
19. 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.
Weber
Civilization
culture
Applied Anthropology
20. Determining the success of a project
Cultural relativism
Barbarism
Evaluation research
Sondages
21. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mauss
gene flow
Kluckhohn
Electromagnetic prospecting
22. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
polyandry
Reciprocity
Gens
Functionalism
23. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Market Exchange
Biosphere
Structural-functional
24. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Potlatch
prosimians
Tributary Production
McLennan
25. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Cultural relativism
Mutagen
Genetic Recombination
Evaluation research
26. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Archaeology
Hittites
Cultural Evolution
Animal domestication
27. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Moieties
Bands & Tribes
Mendelian population
Gene
28. 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
Middle east farming
Assyrians
Monarchy
Lower Paleo Period
29. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Mesolithic Period
Horticulture
Cultural Evolution
Africa
30. 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..
Dead Sea scrolls
Anthropoids
Mayan indians
Unilineal Descent
31. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Mauss
Family of procreation
Genotype
Ethnocentrism
32. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Non-warlike people
International Development
Cargo Cult
Anthropometry
33. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Egypt
Cargo Cult
Writing
sharp edges
34. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Quinceanera
Kluckhohn
Aztec indians
35. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Hebrews
Biosphere
Affinal kin
Unilineal Descent
36. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Yanomamo
Poy Tang Lon
Structuralism
37. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Bands & Tribes
War
platyrrhini
Natural selection
38. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Genotype
Egyptian diffusion
Peking Man
Production
39. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Radcliffe-Brown
Sapir-Whorf
Chiefdom
Allele
40. 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
Kinship
Africa
Genotypic Variations
Feudal System
41. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Nuclear Family
Family of orientation
Sanction
Horticulture
42. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
North American Indians
radiometric dating
Survival
McLennan
43. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
platyrrhini
old world monkeys
Religion
Survival
44. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Mauss
Gens
Semantics
platyrrhini
45. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
Yanomamo Feasting
Kroeber
African Economic Organization
Armchair Anthropologists
46. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Physical Anthropology
Policy Research
Taboo
Upper Paleo period
47. 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)
Nuclear Family
Diffusion
Conspicuous Consumption
Malinowski
48. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Tribe
Allele
Quinceanera
Egyptology
49. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Cultural relativism
Noosphere
Intervention Anthropology
culture
50. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Ethnocentrism
Catal Huyak
Family of procreation
mana
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