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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Homo Habilis
Cultural Evolution
Polygamy
Cross-cousins
2. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Margaret Mead
carbon-14 dating
Ethnology
Nitrogenous Bases
3. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Sumerians
Theory of organic evolution
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Levy-Bruhl
4. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Structural-functional
Chiefdom
Semantics
Structuralism
5. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Generalized Reciprocity
Qualitative Research
Upper Paleo period
Referencial Symbol
6. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
husbandry
Barbarism
Sanction
WG Rivers
7. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Egypt
Crossing over
Sapir-Whorf
8. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Functionalism
Genotypic Variations
Hebrews
Catal Huyak
9. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Real Culture
old world monkeys
Ziggurat
platyrrhini
10. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
endogamy
Paleolithic period
Middle Paleo Period
Sanction
11. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Margaret Mead
Gene migration
Phases of rituals
McLennan
12. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Elsie Parsons
Mesolithic Period
Generalized Reciprocity
Levy-Bruhl
13. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Tribe
phenotype
Olduvai Gorge
Monarchy
14. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Band
chimpanzee
pastoralism
Superposition
15. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Nistri periscope
endogamy
Divorce
culture
16. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
pastoralism
Allele frequency
Upper Paleo period
Cultural Ecology
17. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Ritual
Mesolithic Period
Modernization
Chiefdom
18. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Armchair Anthropologists
Upper Paleo period
Geerts
Neanderthals
19. 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.
Leakey family
Matrilineal Descent
Redistribution
prehistoric archaeology
20. (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
Cultural Anthropology
Cargo Cult
Animism
Sondages
21. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Hunter/Gatherers
Legitimacy
classical archaeology
Linguistics
22. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Excavation
Writing
Australopithecus
Yanomamo Feasting
23. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
Egypt
Anthropoids
Diffusion
homonoids
24. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Mendelian population
prehistoric archaeology
Phonetics
Taboo
25. 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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26. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Writing
Egypt
Ralph Lynton
State
27. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Negative Reciprocity
Cultural Ecology
Monogamy
Polygamy
28. 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
Nuclear Family
Social practices
Etic perspective
29. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Margaret Mead
Kindred
Mutagen
30. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Petrie
Status
Mutation
Animism
31. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Moieties
State
Diffusion
Pragmatics
32. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Ethnology
Mauss
platyrrhini
Austrailia indians
33. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Syntax
Austrailia indians
Shaman
Modernization
34. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Cultural relativism
Negative Reciprocity
State
War
35. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Yanomamo
WG Rivers
Magnetic prospecting
3 types of excavation
36. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Specialities
Genetic Recombination
Redistribution
Leakey family
37. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
husbandry
Mauss
Levirate
Stratigraphy
38. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
State
exogamy
Levi-Strauss
Africa
39. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Mesolithic Period
Kindred
Stimulus Diffusion
Africa
40. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
DNA
Sumerians
Phonology
Universalities
41. 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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42. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Sanction
babylonians
Monarchy
Generalized Reciprocity
43. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Crossing over
Warlike people
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Schliemann
44. 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.
Universalities
Negative Reciprocity
Levi-Strauss
Gene
45. 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)
Homo Habilis
Civilization
Poy Tang Lon
Divorce
46. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Kluckhohn
babylonians
Relative time
47. 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
Universalities
Class
Ethnography
Petrie
48. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Magnetic prospecting
State
Kluckhohn
Band
49. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
Evaluation research
Morphology
Migration of Erectus
50. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Petrie
Generalized Reciprocity
Social impact assessment
Mayan indians
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