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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Quantitative Research
Magnetic prospecting
Diffusion
Production
2. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Religion
Middle east farming
Mendelian population
pastoralism
3. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Shaman
Gene pool
Survival
Australopithecus
4. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Stimulus Diffusion
Kroeber
Cultural Evolution
Excavation
5. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Survival
Divorce
Relative time
Morphology
6. Ways to date artifacts
Noosphere
Phonetics
Cro-Magnon
Dating methods
7. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Semantics
Dead Sea scrolls
Unit of Kinship
Feudal System
8. Thinkers: linguistics
Greeks
James George Frazer
Anthropometry
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
9. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Anthropology
Cultural Resource Assessment
endogamy
Geerts
10. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Asian farming
Gens
Stimulus Diffusion
Rite of passage
11. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
Archaeology
Class
Matrilineal Descent
12. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
homonoids
Noosphere
Alternatives
Pragmatics
13. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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14. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Allele
Migration of Erectus
Pacific indians
endogamy
15. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Genetic drift
Diffusion
Geosphere
Cognatic Descent
16. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Radcliffe-Brown
Bands & Tribes
Structuralism
babylonians
17. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
old world monkeys
State
Symbol
Revitalization
18. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Homonids
Ritual
Assyrians
19. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
polyandry
Legitimacy
Directed Cultural Change
Schliemann
20. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
radiometric dating
Genotype
James George Frazer
Reciprocity
21. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Real Culture
Leakey family
North American Indians
Genotype
22. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
South American indians
gene flow
Feudal System
Sapir-Whorf
23. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Substantive Economics
Industrialization
Electromagnetic prospecting
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
24. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Policy Research
African Economic Organization
Geerts
Africa
25. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Excavation
Gene
Ethnography
Emile Durkheim
26. (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)
Neolithic Period
Hammurabi
Cultural Anthropology
Africa
27. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
polyandry
Mauss
phenotype
Modernization
28. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Chromosome
Phonology
Weber
American farming
29. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Hebrews
mana
Anthropometry
Structural-functional
30. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Phonetics
Morphology
Theory of organic evolution
platyrrhini
31. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Survival
Phratry
primates
Franz Boas
32. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Structuralism
Cognatic Descent
Conspicuous Consumption
Religion
33. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Levi-Strauss
radiometric dating
KhoiKhoi
Stratigraphy
34. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Anthropology
Real Culture
classical archaeology
Nistri periscope
35. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Cultural relativism
Homonids
Monogamy
platyrrhini
36. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Redistribution
Genotypic Variations
Diffusion
Feudal System
37. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Weber
Unit of Kinship
Taboo
Revitalization
38. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Ethnocentrism
Middle east farming
Dating methods
Sondages
39. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
McLennan
Cross-cousins
Genotype
Egyptology
40. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Levirate
Levi-Strauss
Taboo
DNA
41. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Noosphere
Paleolithic period
Culture
Sondages
42. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Moieties
Myth
Quantitative Research
Tribe
43. 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
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Substantive Economics
European farming
Hittites
44. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Phonetics
Quantitative Research
Middle east farming
Central American indians
45. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Yanomamo Feasting
phenotype
Cultural Resource Assessment
North American Indians
46. 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)
Unilineal Descent
Assyrians
gene flow
Paleolithic period
47. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Evaluation research
Weber
Myth
Caste
48. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Nitrogenous Bases
Genotype
Cultural Ecology
Pacific indians
49. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Cultural Anthropology
Generalized Reciprocity
husbandry
Adaptation
50. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Levi-Strauss
Sanction
Qualitative Research
Clan