Test your basic knowledge |

DSST General Anthropology

Subjects : dsst, anthropology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






2. Thinkers: linguistics






3. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






4. 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.






5. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






6. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations






7. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum






8. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






9. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)






10. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.






11. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)






12. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






13. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






14. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






15. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






16. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






17. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






18. 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






19. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources






20. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






21. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






22. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables






23. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic






24. 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]






25. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






26. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






27. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






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.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


29. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






30. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






31. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






32. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






33. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






34. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






35. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






36. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.






37. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






38. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






39. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






40. 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)






41. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






42. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.






43. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






44. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science






45. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






46. New family you form when you marry and have children.






47. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.






48. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






49. Things all people do the same way (language)






50. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.







Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?


Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests



Major Subjects

Tests & Exams


AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests