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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Policy Research
Rite of passage
Anthropology
Magnetic prospecting
2. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
endogamy
Gene
Ralph Lynton
Relative time
3. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Mesopotamia
Elsie Parsons
Natural selection
Mendelian population
4. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Hittites
Gens
Shaman
Referencial Symbol
5. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Modernization
Substantive Economics
Sondages
Sanction
6. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Theory of organic evolution
Agriculture
Symbol
Archaeology
7. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Genotypic Variations
Egyptology
Culture
prosimians
8. Ways to date artifacts
polyandry
Neolithic Period
Dating methods
International Development
9. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Ethnography
Allele frequency
Family of orientation
Chiefdom
10. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Affinal kin
Intervention Anthropology
EB Tylor
Generalized Reciprocity
11. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Social practices
Egyptian diffusion
International Development
12. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Cargo Cult
Real Culture
Lower Paleo Period
Totem
13. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Market Exchange
Anthropoids
Excavation
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
14. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
prehistoric archaeology
Animism
Legitimacy
Catal Huyak
15. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Matrilineal Descent
WG Rivers
Olduvai Gorge
Genetic drift
16. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Sapir-Whorf
Stimulus Diffusion
Feudal System
carbon-14 dating
17. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Alternatives
Electromagnetic prospecting
KhoiKhoi
Homonids
18. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Noosphere
Survival
State
Sanction
19. 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
Superposition
Semantics
Stimulus Diffusion
Potlatch
20. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Cultural Resource Assessment
Aztec indians
Egypt
Africa
21. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Egyptology
Syntax
Ethnography
Cultural Anthropology
22. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Bronze Age
Superposition
Sumerians
primates
23. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
classical archaeology
Chiefdom
State
Tributary Production
24. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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25. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
prosimians
New World monkeys
Homo Erectus
Petrie
26. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Tribe
EB Tylor
Cargo Cult
Leakey family
27. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Revitalization
Market Exchange
Archaeology
Hittites
28. Traces back to ONE person
Lineage
Linguistics
Middle Paleo Period
Elsie Parsons
29. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Gens
Hittites
polyandry
Animal domestication
30. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Weber
Kindred
Paleolithic period
Levy-Bruhl
31. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Mary Douglas Leakey
Shaman
Mutation
Specialities
32. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Genetic drift
Egyptology
Java Man
Pragmatics
33. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mauss
Affinal kin
Phonology
Nistri periscope
34. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Shaman
Peking Man
Armchair Anthropologists
babylonians
35. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Semantics
Structural-functional
Genetic drift
Cargo Cult
36. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Austrailia indians
Social Class Manifestation
Diffusion
Magnetic prospecting
37. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Radcliffe-Brown
Monarchy
Diffusion
Potlatch
38. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Genetic Recombination
Unit of Kinship
Margaret Mead
39. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Sondages
Central American indians
Radcliffe-Brown
Franz Boas
40. 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
Conspicuous Consumption
Formal Economics
Genetic drift
Legitimacy
41. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
State
Yanomamo Feasting
Etic perspective
Social Class Manifestation
42. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Mendelian population
Neanderthals
Phonology
Horticulture
43. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Mary Douglas Leakey
mana
North American Indians
Chiefdom
44. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Cultural Anthropology
North American Indians
Quantitative Research
Anthropometry
45. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
Schliemann
Franz Boas
Lower Paleo Period
46. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Writing
Emile Durkheim
Intervention Anthropology
Ethnography
47. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Geosphere
Natural selection
Family of procreation
gene flow
48. 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.
mana
State
Benedict
Phonetics
49. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Theory of organic evolution
Mendelian population
Relative time
Class
50. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Production
Cargo Cult
Excavation
Emic perspective