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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Magnetic prospecting
Cognatic Descent
Cargo Cult
McLennan
2. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Cultivation
Mauss
classical archaeology
3. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Horticulture
Chromosome
Mayan indians
Geosphere
4. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
South American indians
husbandry
Nuclear Family
Status
5. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Radcliffe-Brown
babylonians
Greeks
Divorce
6. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
Assyrians
Neanderthals
exogamy
Egyptian diffusion
7. Civilization to invent 'zero'
babylonians
Africa
Fieldwork
Mauss
8. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Geophysical prospecting
American farming
Social Class Manifestation
Geerts
9. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Cargo Cult
Fieldwork
Ethnography
American farming
10. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Gene migration
WG Rivers
Clan
Hunter/Gatherers
11. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
McLennan
Genotype
Pragmatics
Bronze Age
12. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Industrialization
Leakey family
Assyrians
13. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Status
Ralph Lynton
State
Mendel's first principle of genetics
14. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
mana
Armchair Anthropologists
Asian farming
Structuralism
15. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Quantitative Research
Directed Cultural Change
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
16. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
EB Tylor
Applied Anthropology
Egyptian diffusion
Moieties
17. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Affinal kin
Formal Economics
Kinship
carbon-14 dating
18. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
mana
radiometric dating
Phratry
19. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Mendelian population
Cargo Cult
Monogamy
Reciprocity
20. 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
Mary Douglas Leakey
Peking Man
Hammurabi
chimpanzee
21. 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]
Elsie Parsons
Asian farming
Franz Boas
Genotypic Variations
22. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Ethnocentrism
babylonians
Catal Huyak
Lower Paleo Period
23. 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
Kluckhohn
Genotypic Variations
Geophysical prospecting
Feudal System
24. 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
Archaeology
Mesopotamia
homonoids
Potlatch
25. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Social Class Manifestation
Cross-cousins
American farming
Syntax
26. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Shaman
Gene migration
Morphology
27. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Real Culture
Margaret Mead
3 types of excavation
Unit of Kinship
28. 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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29. Invented smelting of iron
Qualitative Research
Modernization
Symbol
Hittites
30. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Franz Boas
Mesopotamia
Biosphere
Chiefdom
31. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Cultural relativism
Noosphere
Emic perspective
Neolithic Technology
32. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Egyptology
Middle Paleo Period
Cultural relativism
Redistribution
33. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Chiefdom
Australopithecus
Morphology
Writing
34. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Phratry
Cultural Resource Assessment
Status
Dokimasi
35. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
radiometric dating
Directed Cultural Change
Social Class Manifestation
Symbol
36. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Matrilineal Descent
Ideal culture
primates
European farming
37. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
North American Indians
Cultural Evolution
Unilineal Descent
Ritual
38. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Mauss
Totem
Allele frequency
Upper Paleo period
39. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Emile Durkheim
Horticulture
Gens
Symbol
40. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Individual Peculiarities
Matrilineal Descent
Austrailia indians
Franz Boas
41. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Nitrogenous Bases
Sapir-Whorf
Hunter/Gatherers
Stimulus Diffusion
42. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Modernization
Morphology
Aztec indians
Sanction
43. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Band
Kroeber
Ethnology
Mauss
44. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
Formal Economics
Cultural relativism
Homo Erectus
45. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
pastoralism
Birth of Anthropology
Phonology
Tributary Production
46. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Ziggurat
Cargo Cult
Savagery
Dokimasi
47. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Alternatives
radiometric dating
Greeks
Qualitative Research
48. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
State
perforated edges
Redistribution
Levirate
49. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Legitimacy
Lineage
Warlike people
Ethnology
50. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'
sharp edges
Homo Habilis
Geosphere
Schliemann
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