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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
classical archaeology
Semantics
Tributary Production
Bronze Age
2. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Genetic drift
Negative Reciprocity
State
Social Darwinism
3. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Social Class Manifestation
Linguistics
phenotype
Monogamy
4. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
Cross-cousins
Neanderthals
Neolithic Technology
5. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Non-warlike people
Levy-Bruhl
Fieldwork
Unilineal Descent
6. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
3 types of excavation
Phonetics
Warlike people
Tribe
7. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Pacific indians
Etic perspective
South American indians
pastoralism
8. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Homo Habilis
Negative Reciprocity
Schliemann
Nuclear Family
9. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Franz Boas
Geophysical prospecting
Cultivation
Kinship
10. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Unit of Kinship
Genotype
polished stone
Intervention Anthropology
11. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Sumerians
Anthropometry
Stratigraphy
Superposition
12. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Dokimasi
DNA
Social impact assessment
Asian farming
13. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
McLennan
Egyptian diffusion
Pragmatics
State
14. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Nitrogenous Bases
Structuralism
Egypt
EB Tylor
15. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
KhoiKhoi
Paleolithic period
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Diffusion
16. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Kindred
State
Generalized Reciprocity
Franz Boas
17. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Caste
Cognatic Descent
Malinowski
Balanced Reciprocity
18. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Weber
Cultural Resource Assessment
Java Man
Cro-Magnon
19. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Petrie
Phonetics
Structural-functional
Non-warlike people
20. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
WG Rivers
Sapir-Whorf
Ritual
Legitimacy
21. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
primates
Gens
Bronze Age
South American indians
22. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Condensed Symbol
Phratry
Paleolithic period
American farming
23. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
polished stone
Dating methods
Margaret Mead
Phratry
24. 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.
Kroeber
Chiefdom
Central American indians
prehistoric archaeology
25. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Radcliffe-Brown
Status
Mutation
Quinceanera
26. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Civilization
Industrialization
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Intervention Anthropology
27. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotype
New World monkeys
Ethnology
Nitrogenous Bases
28. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
American farming
Adaptation
Structural-functional
Phases of rituals
29. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Phonetics
Sanction
Savagery
Poy Tang Lon
30. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Malinowski
Middle Paleo Period
Symbol
Tributary Production
31. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Neanderthals
Birth of Anthropology
Family of orientation
Mary Douglas Leakey
32. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Cultivation
Market Exchange
Legitimacy
33. 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.
Ralph Lynton
Genetic drift
Greeks
Negative Reciprocity
34. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Superposition
Natural selection
Redistribution
Neolithic Technology
35. 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
culture
Cultural Anthropology
Applied Anthropology
primates
36. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Balanced Reciprocity
Gens
Diffusion
International Development
37. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Divorce
Lower Paleo Period
Etic perspective
Conspicuous Consumption
38. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Condensed Symbol
Shaman
Cultural relativism
Semantics
39. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Poy Tang Lon
Chromosome
Ralph Lynton
Ziggurat
40. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Aztec indians
Myth
Religion
Clan
41. Spread of something from one group to another
Intervention Anthropology
Universalities
Diffusion
Unit of Kinship
42. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Physical Anthropology
Industrialization
Fieldwork
Mutagen
43. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
polished stone
Catal Huyak
Poy Tang Lon
Biosphere
44. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Archaeology
Asian farming
Phases of rituals
Taboo
45. 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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46. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Feudal System
Cognatic Descent
Kluckhohn
Sondages
47. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Adaptation
Status
Lineage
Theory of organic evolution
48. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Mesolithic Period
Hunter/Gatherers
Peking Man
Etic perspective
49. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Culture
EB Tylor
Mutagen
Bronze Age
50. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Anthropoids
Allele
Mary Douglas Leakey
Social practices