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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Holistic study of humanity.
prosimians
chimpanzee
International Development
Anthropology
2. 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
Taboo
Neanderthals
Intervention Anthropology
Yanomamo Feasting
3. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Ethnocentrism
Religion
Hebrews
Ethnography
4. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Phases of rituals
Animal domestication
Biosphere
Nistri periscope
5. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
James George Frazer
Divorce
Homonids
6. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Relative time
Animism
Etic perspective
Stratigraphy
7. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Policy Research
Unilineal Descent
Catal Huyak
Status
8. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Revitalization
culture
Excavation
Bands & Tribes
9. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Noosphere
Magnetic prospecting
Hunter/Gatherers
Ideal culture
10. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Cultural relativism
Adaptation
Emile Durkheim
Ziggurat
11. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Social practices
Ideal culture
Social Class Manifestation
Genpuku
12. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
WG Rivers
Levi-Strauss
Egyptian diffusion
European farming
13. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Horticulture
Hittites
Agriculture
Genotypic Variations
14. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Mayan indians
Affinal kin
EB Tylor
Pragmatics
15. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Tributary Production
Generalized Reciprocity
Mutation
Cognatic Descent
16. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Family of orientation
Peking Man
Gene
17. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Hammurabi
Genetic Recombination
Genpuku
Rite of passage
18. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Theory of organic evolution
Symbol
Phonetics
Homo Habilis
19. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Stratigraphy
Neolithic Period
Modernization
KhoiKhoi
20. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Elsie Parsons
Poy Tang Lon
Genotype
21. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Peking Man
McLennan
State
Paleolithic period
22. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Cross-cousins
Civilization
Petrie
23. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
culture
Ziggurat
State
old world monkeys
24. 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
Schliemann
Applied Anthropology
Caste
Neolithic Technology
25. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Qualitative Research
War
Negative Reciprocity
Referencial Symbol
26. Relatives through marriage
Levi-Strauss
Affinal kin
Real Culture
Monarchy
27. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Neolithic Period
Stratigraphy
Symbol
Nitrogenous Bases
28. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
radiometric dating
Emile Durkheim
American farming
International Development
29. 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.
Cargo Cult
platyrrhini
Birth of Anthropology
Negative Reciprocity
30. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
sharp edges
Cultural Resource Assessment
Universalities
Hebrews
31. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Middle east farming
homonoids
Agriculture
Taboo
32. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Genpuku
Yanomamo
perforated edges
platyrrhini
33. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Monogamy
Anthropoids
Mythology
Band
34. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Mutation
gene flow
Bands & Tribes
endogamy
35. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Class
American farming
Ritual
36. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Technology development research
Functionalism
Status
Caste
37. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Bands & Tribes
Semantics
Tribe
38. 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.
polished stone
Bands & Tribes
Physical Anthropology
Genetic drift
39. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
pastoralism
Dokimasi
Myth
Mayan indians
40. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
carbon-14 dating
Conspicuous Consumption
WG Rivers
South American indians
41. 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
Peking Man
Mauss
Cultural Anthropology
Moieties
42. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Genetic Recombination
Kroeber
Austrailia indians
Cargo Cult
43. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)
Evaluation research
Structural-functional
Social Darwinism
Chromosome
44. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Aztec indians
Mutation
Writing
Social impact assessment
45. (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
Migration of Erectus
Diffusion
Hunter/Gatherers
Functionalism
46. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Assyrians
Savagery
Levi-Strauss
Theory of organic evolution
47. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Cultural Evolution
Tributary Production
Egyptian diffusion
3 types of excavation
48. 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
Policy Research
Petrie
Class
Family of procreation
49. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
phenotype
Kluckhohn
Animal domestication
husbandry
50. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Mendelian population
Potlatch
Middle Paleo Period
Genotype