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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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
Africa
Fieldwork
Peking Man
Animism
2. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Tribe
Survival
Genetic drift
Mendelian population
3. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
Polygamy
Semantics
Cargo Cult
4. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Tributary Production
Agriculture
Radcliffe-Brown
Moieties
5. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Pragmatics
Quinceanera
Tributary Production
Margaret Mead
6. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
radiometric dating
Africa
Anthropometry
Adaptation
7. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
homonoids
Horticulture
Emic perspective
Dead Sea scrolls
8. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
New World monkeys
Peking Man
Reciprocity
9. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Policy Research
Ethnocentrism
Social practices
Paleolithic period
10. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Yanomamo Feasting
Cultural Ecology
primates
Cargo Cult
11. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
Animal domestication
New World monkeys
Margaret Mead
12. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Tributary Production
DNA
Tribe
South American indians
13. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Neolithic Technology
Chiefdom
Affinal kin
Family of procreation
14. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Franz Boas
Mendel's third principle of genetics
radiometric dating
Gens
15. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Dating methods
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Conspicuous Consumption
Directed Cultural Change
16. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Modernization
Matrilineal Descent
Balanced Reciprocity
Kindred
17. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Ziggurat
Homo Erectus
Genetic drift
Homonids
18. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Dokimasi
Cognatic Descent
Status
Relative time
19. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Catal Huyak
Religion
State
20. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Chromosome
Legitimacy
Real Culture
Absolute time
21. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
radiometric dating
Relative time
Mesopotamia
Mayan indians
22. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Technology development research
Quantitative Research
McLennan
Sanction
23. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
North American Indians
Anthropology
Morphology
Hittites
24. Spread of something from one group to another
Cultivation
Shaman
Cross-cousins
Diffusion
25. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Fieldwork
Family of procreation
Hunter/Gatherers
26. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Pacific indians
Levirate
babylonians
Family of procreation
27. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
North American Indians
Homo Erectus
Ideal culture
Absolute time
28. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
South American indians
Social Class Manifestation
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Central American indians
29. 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
Market Exchange
Sumerians
Unit of Kinship
30. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Clan
Phonology
husbandry
Religion
31. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Natural selection
Religion
Chiefdom
prosimians
32. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Lineage
Yanomamo Feasting
Magnetic prospecting
Ethnology
33. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Bands & Tribes
Culture
Peking Man
Physical Anthropology
34. 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
Archaeology
polyandry
Assyrians
35. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Asian farming
Mendelian population
Clan
Neolithic Technology
36. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Pacific indians
Nuclear Family
Peking Man
Monarchy
37. 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.
Market Exchange
prehistoric archaeology
State
Etic perspective
38. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Armchair Anthropologists
Conspicuous Consumption
Levi-Strauss
Quinceanera
39. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Cultivation
Survival
Savagery
Ritual
40. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Australopithecus
EB Tylor
Substantive Economics
endogamy
41. Relatives through marriage
Nuclear Family
Phonetics
Lower Paleo Period
Affinal kin
42. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Savagery
Tribe
Cargo Cult
Redistribution
43. Shorthand - Morse Code
Survival
Fieldwork
Condensed Symbol
Anthropometry
44. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
New World monkeys
Mauss
Mutagen
phenotype
45. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
American farming
culture
Magnetic prospecting
Catal Huyak
46. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Formal Economics
Gene migration
exogamy
platyrrhini
47. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Hittites
Caste
Social impact assessment
Catal Huyak
48. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Cargo Cult
Phonology
Phonetics
Egypt
49. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Hammurabi
Individual Peculiarities
Phratry
Monarchy
50. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Industrialization
Malinowski
Poy Tang Lon
Cargo Cult