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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
2. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Absolute time
Mutation
Feudal System
Ethnography
3. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Agriculture
carbon-14 dating
Cultivation
Weber
4. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Phonetics
prehistoric archaeology
Gene migration
Applied Anthropology
5. Thinker: social stratification
Clan
Weber
Cargo Cult
Stratigraphy
6. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Kroeber
Tribe
South American indians
Market Exchange
7. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Assyrians
Electromagnetic prospecting
Barbarism
Generalized Reciprocity
8. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
James George Frazer
Cultural Resource Assessment
Ethnography
Petrie
9. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
American farming
Genetic drift
EB Tylor
Electromagnetic prospecting
10. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Functionalism
South American indians
Pragmatics
classical archaeology
11. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Diffusion
Cultural relativism
Nuclear Family
Dokimasi
12. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Directed Cultural Change
platyrrhini
Yanomamo Feasting
Ralph Lynton
13. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Franz Boas
Hunter/Gatherers
Magnetic prospecting
polyandry
14. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Malinowski
Status
Functionalism
International Development
15. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Excavation
Cultivation
Social practices
Tribe
16. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Australopithecus
classical archaeology
Social Darwinism
Gens
17. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Neolithic Technology
Survival
Allele
Bands & Tribes
18. Holistic study of humanity.
classical archaeology
Anthropology
Genetic Recombination
Ethnography
19. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Religion
Negative Reciprocity
Ralph Lynton
Etic perspective
20. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Gene
Cargo Cult
Austrailia indians
Mythology
21. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Neolithic Technology
Semantics
Evaluation research
Social practices
22. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Bands & Tribes
Savagery
Migration of Erectus
Anthropoids
23. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Gene pool
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
State
24. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Balanced Reciprocity
Diffusion
Syntax
Formal Economics
25. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
South American indians
Olduvai Gorge
Intervention Anthropology
Savagery
26. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Paleolithic period
Technology development research
Fieldwork
Culture
27. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
Biosphere
Band
Middle Paleo Period
28. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Band
Mesopotamia
International Development
Diffusion
29. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Potlatch
Quantitative Research
Chiefdom
Alternatives
30. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Physical Anthropology
Central American indians
classical archaeology
Diffusion
31. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Kindred
Conspicuous Consumption
phenotype
Technology development research
32. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Mendelian population
Mesopotamia
Migration of Erectus
Matrilineal Descent
33. Relatives through marriage
Schliemann
Affinal kin
Civilization
Lower Paleo Period
34. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Peking Man
Pragmatics
Nistri periscope
Social impact assessment
35. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
husbandry
Geosphere
Quantitative Research
Pragmatics
36. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
EB Tylor
Biosphere
Gens
platyrrhini
37. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Totem
Status
Leakey family
Absolute time
38. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Mesopotamia
Genetic drift
Genotypic Variations
Feudal System
39. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Mythology
Ziggurat
perforated edges
Excavation
40. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Functionalism
DNA
Geerts
Upper Paleo period
41. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Genetic Recombination
Totem
Evaluation research
Gene pool
42. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
pastoralism
Condensed Symbol
Yanomamo Feasting
Kroeber
43. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
phenotype
Homonids
Mary Douglas Leakey
Chiefdom
44. 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
Geosphere
Peking Man
Animal domestication
Africa
45. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Polygamy
Gene pool
Qualitative Research
Crossing over
46. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Religion
Cultural relativism
Migration of Erectus
Africa
47. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Stimulus Diffusion
Mauss
Legitimacy
Qualitative Research
48. 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
Survival
Weber
Substantive Economics
Superposition
49. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Stratigraphy
Alternatives
Social Darwinism
Gens
50. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Substantive Economics
Kluckhohn
chimpanzee
Symbol