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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotype
perforated edges
Horticulture
Monarchy
2. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
Biosphere
Ideal culture
Anthropometry
3. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Aztec indians
African Economic Organization
classical archaeology
Ethnocentrism
4. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Bands & Tribes
Kroeber
Levi-Strauss
Phases of rituals
5. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Egypt
Directed Cultural Change
Functionalism
Quantitative Research
6. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Emile Durkheim
Dating methods
Diffusion
Leakey family
7. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
phenotype
Phonology
Legitimacy
polished stone
8. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Semantics
Shaman
Egyptology
Theory of organic evolution
9. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Nitrogenous Bases
Revitalization
Franz Boas
10. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Relative time
Yanomamo Feasting
Paleolithic period
Genetic drift
11. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
Mayan indians
Directed Cultural Change
Applied Anthropology
12. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
phenotype
Gene
Geerts
13. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
Unit of Kinship
Dokimasi
New World monkeys
14. Things all people do the same way (language)
Geophysical prospecting
Yanomamo Feasting
Universalities
Social impact assessment
15. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Phratry
Negative Reciprocity
Margaret Mead
Directed Cultural Change
16. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Dead Sea scrolls
mana
Cultural Evolution
Individual Peculiarities
17. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Etic perspective
mana
Generalized Reciprocity
Crossing over
18. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Pacific indians
Elsie Parsons
North American Indians
McLennan
19. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
primates
Survival
Emile Durkheim
McLennan
20. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Warlike people
Modernization
Cultural Ecology
Franz Boas
21. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Middle east farming
classical archaeology
Barbarism
Olduvai Gorge
22. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Franz Boas
homonoids
Biosphere
pastoralism
23. (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
Hunter/Gatherers
Ritual
polyandry
Biosphere
24. 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
Bands & Tribes
Crossing over
McLennan
Lower Paleo Period
25. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Neolithic Technology
Caste
Mesopotamia
Emic perspective
26. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Hammurabi
Diffusion
Egypt
Nitrogenous Bases
27. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Australopithecus
husbandry
Specialities
Egyptian diffusion
28. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
Genotype
Animal domestication
Elsie Parsons
Natural selection
29. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Real Culture
Specialities
Cognatic Descent
Chiefdom
30. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Mutagen
State
Levy-Bruhl
31. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
Electromagnetic prospecting
Absolute time
Specialities
32. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Policy Research
Kindred
Dating methods
Status
33. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
Applied Anthropology
Neanderthals
Genpuku
Animism
34. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Cross-cousins
Mauss
Allele
European farming
35. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Egyptology
Mary Douglas Leakey
Peking Man
Crossing over
36. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Mutagen
Yanomamo
Syntax
Cargo Cult
37. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Adaptation
Non-warlike people
War
KhoiKhoi
38. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Social Darwinism
Mutation
Potlatch
Unilineal Descent
39. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Reciprocity
Cultural relativism
Catal Huyak
Mauss
40. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Tributary Production
Weber
Monarchy
Stratigraphy
41. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Genetic drift
Warlike people
Gene
Status
42. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
New World monkeys
Poy Tang Lon
Pragmatics
Upper Paleo period
43. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Savagery
carbon-14 dating
Linguistics
44. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Greeks
Radcliffe-Brown
Production
Homo Erectus
45. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Negative Reciprocity
Hebrews
Egyptology
Archaeology
46. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Production
Formal Economics
Policy Research
Quantitative Research
47. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Franz Boas
Middle east farming
Geophysical prospecting
Pacific indians
48. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Directed Cultural Change
Levy-Bruhl
Status
Moieties
49. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Pragmatics
Homonids
Individual Peculiarities
50. 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
Anthropometry
Homo Erectus
Neanderthals
Peking Man