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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
husbandry
James George Frazer
Margaret Mead
Central American indians
2. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Middle Paleo Period
Stimulus Diffusion
Phonology
Nitrogenous Bases
3. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
McLennan
Cargo Cult
Cross-cousins
4. Invented smelting of iron
Cross-cousins
Unit of Kinship
Hittites
Gene migration
5. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animal domestication
Qualitative Research
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cro-Magnon
6. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
classical archaeology
Cargo Cult
Schliemann
American farming
7. Traces back to ONE person
Poy Tang Lon
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Moieties
Lineage
8. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Conspicuous Consumption
Bands & Tribes
Quinceanera
Intervention Anthropology
9. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Cargo Cult
KhoiKhoi
Ralph Lynton
Civilization
10. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Java Man
Sanction
Allele
Agriculture
11. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Kinship
Stratigraphy
Petrie
old world monkeys
12. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Redistribution
Phonetics
McLennan
Cultural Ecology
13. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Reciprocity
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Technology development research
Production
14. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Taboo
perforated edges
Catal Huyak
Geophysical prospecting
15. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Malinowski
Anthropoids
Homo Habilis
Yanomamo
16. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Hebrews
Status
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Tributary Production
17. Ways to date artifacts
Assyrians
Migration of Erectus
Dating methods
Myth
18. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Kindred
Phonology
Myth
Genetic drift
19. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Austrailia indians
Structuralism
Genotype
Cargo Cult
20. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
McLennan
Mendel's third principle of genetics
culture
Catal Huyak
21. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Qualitative Research
Cognatic Descent
Ritual
Ethnocentrism
22. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Social practices
Fieldwork
Asian farming
Alternatives
23. 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
Adaptation
Redistribution
Poy Tang Lon
Barbarism
24. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Upper Paleo period
Genotype
WG Rivers
25. 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.
Cultivation
Conspicuous Consumption
State
husbandry
26. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Directed Cultural Change
Relative time
Natural selection
Specialities
27. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Mayan indians
Balanced Reciprocity
Structural-functional
Religion
28. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Mutation
Levirate
Semantics
Genotype
29. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Levy-Bruhl
Cognatic Descent
Production
Cargo Cult
30. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Redistribution
Cargo Cult
Physical Anthropology
Social practices
31. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Religion
Leakey family
Revitalization
Diffusion
32. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Magnetic prospecting
Hammurabi
Superposition
New World monkeys
33. Holistic study of humanity.
Bronze Age
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Central American indians
Anthropology
34. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Gene pool
Ziggurat
Mayan indians
Social practices
35. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Mendelian population
Cross-cousins
Hittites
Ethnography
36. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
primates
Middle Paleo Period
Cro-Magnon
37. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
platyrrhini
Phases of rituals
Egyptology
Anthropoids
38. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Stimulus Diffusion
Asian farming
Feudal System
Genotypic Variations
39. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Egypt
Survival
Phases of rituals
Superposition
40. 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
Neanderthals
Geosphere
Poy Tang Lon
Excavation
41. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Individual Peculiarities
Policy Research
Egyptian diffusion
endogamy
42. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Sanction
Structuralism
Social practices
Gens
43. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Totem
Functionalism
Fieldwork
Diffusion
44. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
polished stone
Stimulus Diffusion
Tribe
Leakey family
45. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Emile Durkheim
Status
Affinal kin
Cro-Magnon
46. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
pastoralism
Cultural Resource Assessment
Sanction
Noosphere
47. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Ideal culture
Mayan indians
Chromosome
Genpuku
48. Spread of something from one group to another
Cargo Cult
Reciprocity
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Diffusion
49. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Unilineal Descent
Relative time
gene flow
Lineage
50. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Nuclear Family
Ethnography
WG Rivers
Reciprocity