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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Social impact assessment
Noosphere
gene flow
Cargo Cult
2. 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).
carbon-14 dating
Unit of Kinship
Tribe
Diffusion
3. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Emic perspective
Referencial Symbol
Asian farming
Cultural relativism
4. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Cro-Magnon
Agriculture
Ziggurat
Quantitative Research
5. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Bronze Age
Pacific indians
Kindred
6. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Cultural relativism
Anthropometry
Schliemann
7. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
Ethnology
homonoids
Kroeber
North American Indians
8. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
primates
Superposition
Mendel's second principle of genetics
9. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Mary Douglas Leakey
Shaman
Weber
Substantive Economics
10. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Status
Dokimasi
husbandry
North American Indians
11. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Barbarism
Legitimacy
Dokimasi
European farming
12. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Legitimacy
Weber
Ideal culture
Genetic drift
13. Holistic study of humanity.
Nuclear Family
Allele
Anthropology
Benedict
14. (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)
Mesopotamia
Agriculture
Savagery
Neolithic Period
15. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
classical archaeology
Religion
Nistri periscope
Kroeber
16. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
gene flow
Sapir-Whorf
Dead Sea scrolls
Balanced Reciprocity
17. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
gene flow
Emic perspective
Cargo Cult
18. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Kindred
Animal domestication
International Development
Elsie Parsons
19. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
old world monkeys
Social impact assessment
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Gene
20. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Kindred
Cognatic Descent
Gene migration
Electromagnetic prospecting
21. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Cargo Cult
Class
European farming
Production
22. Thinker: social stratification
Barbarism
exogamy
Mendelian population
Weber
23. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Mythology
Excavation
Cultural Resource Assessment
Chromosome
24. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Levi-Strauss
Phonetics
Survival
Ralph Lynton
25. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Radcliffe-Brown
Geophysical prospecting
EB Tylor
Civilization
26. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
Armchair Anthropologists
Ritual
Moieties
Applied Anthropology
27. 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.
Hittites
Levy-Bruhl
Social Class Manifestation
Negative Reciprocity
28. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Adaptation
Totem
sharp edges
Cognatic Descent
29. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Ethnocentrism
Fieldwork
Benedict
New World monkeys
30. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Middle Paleo Period
Sondages
Hittites
Class
31. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
Mythology
Totem
Condensed Symbol
32. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Specialities
Genetic drift
Genotype
chimpanzee
33. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Middle east farming
Sanction
pastoralism
carbon-14 dating
34. 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.
Cultural Evolution
platyrrhini
Birth of Anthropology
Polygamy
35. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Migration of Erectus
Australopithecus
Bands & Tribes
Levirate
36. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Sondages
Poy Tang Lon
Ritual
phenotype
37. 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.
Ethnocentrism
Reciprocity
State
Hammurabi
38. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Lower Paleo Period
Adaptation
Ethnography
Real Culture
39. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Allele frequency
War
Reciprocity
Ralph Lynton
40. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Ralph Lynton
Matrilineal Descent
Barbarism
Mauss
41. Invented smelting of iron
Hittites
Levy-Bruhl
Writing
Culture
42. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Birth of Anthropology
Technology development research
Sondages
Mutagen
43. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Animism
Social practices
Market Exchange
Franz Boas
44. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
WG Rivers
Allele
Taboo
classical archaeology
45. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
American farming
Market Exchange
Cargo Cult
Unit of Kinship
46. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
old world monkeys
Kinship
Mutation
Adaptation
47. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
platyrrhini
husbandry
Barbarism
Phases of rituals
48. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Malinowski
Totem
chimpanzee
Assyrians
49. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Phases of rituals
Formal Economics
Cognatic Descent
Divorce
50. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Gens
Substantive Economics
Mesopotamia
European farming