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DSST General Anthropology
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1. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Petrie
Cargo Cult
Savagery
polyandry
2. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Mythology
Mary Douglas Leakey
Chiefdom
International Development
3. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Morphology
North American Indians
Linguistics
4. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Leakey family
Revitalization
Adaptation
Social impact assessment
5. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Specialities
Physical Anthropology
phenotype
Revitalization
6. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Neolithic Period
Sondages
Levy-Bruhl
War
7. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Hammurabi
Syntax
Balanced Reciprocity
Status
8. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Assyrians
DNA
James George Frazer
Family of procreation
9. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Shaman
Bronze Age
chimpanzee
South American indians
10. 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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11. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
American farming
3 types of excavation
Cultivation
polished stone
12. 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
Monarchy
Generalized Reciprocity
Kroeber
13. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Gene
Nitrogenous Bases
Hunter/Gatherers
Cognatic Descent
14. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Bands & Tribes
Assyrians
Policy Research
Chromosome
15. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cognatic Descent
State
Mendelian population
platyrrhini
16. 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.
Kinship
Schliemann
Balanced Reciprocity
Negative Reciprocity
17. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Genotypic Variations
Ziggurat
Absolute time
Geerts
18. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
North American Indians
KhoiKhoi
Polygamy
Qualitative Research
19. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Neanderthals
Yanomamo Feasting
Quinceanera
Mendel's first principle of genetics
20. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Rite of passage
Unit of Kinship
Genetic Recombination
Homonids
21. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Genotypic Variations
Cargo Cult
Affinal kin
Etic perspective
22. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Bands & Tribes
Stratigraphy
Kroeber
Evaluation research
23. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Lower Paleo Period
Geerts
Cargo Cult
DNA
24. 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.
Phratry
Physical Anthropology
babylonians
Poy Tang Lon
25. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Homo Habilis
Taboo
Ideal culture
Writing
26. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Animal domestication
African Economic Organization
sharp edges
Egyptology
27. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Olduvai Gorge
Egypt
American farming
Cargo Cult
28. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Cultural Evolution
Ritual
Legitimacy
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
29. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Caste
Africa
Crossing over
Mythology
30. Holistic study of humanity.
Cross-cousins
Peking Man
Anthropology
Cultural relativism
31. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Ethnography
Emile Durkheim
Neanderthals
Asian farming
32. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Kluckhohn
Genpuku
Negative Reciprocity
Rite of passage
33. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Evaluation research
Dead Sea scrolls
Phonology
gene flow
34. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Linguistics
WG Rivers
Mayan indians
35. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Anthropoids
Geosphere
Pragmatics
Tributary Production
36. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
3 types of excavation
Leakey family
Religion
Anthropometry
37. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Phonology
Nuclear Family
Morphology
Mutation
38. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Linguistics
Warlike people
chimpanzee
Genotype
39. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Catal Huyak
Polygamy
Specialities
Religion
40. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Sumerians
Nistri periscope
Cultural relativism
Generalized Reciprocity
41. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
EB Tylor
Nuclear Family
Archaeology
Schliemann
42. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Phonology
Industrialization
South American indians
Specialities
43. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Monarchy
Band
Agriculture
Neanderthals
44. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
International Development
Cultural Ecology
Mutation
45. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
perforated edges
Savagery
Aztec indians
Cro-Magnon
46. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Gene
Geerts
Benedict
Magnetic prospecting
47. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Cultural relativism
Social practices
prosimians
Franz Boas
48. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Natural selection
Mauss
Levirate
James George Frazer
49. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Mutation
Potlatch
Social impact assessment
Gene pool
50. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Hammurabi
Individual Peculiarities
Chiefdom
radiometric dating
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