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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Formal Economics
Phonetics
Ethnology
Aztec indians
2. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Revitalization
radiometric dating
Austrailia indians
Genetic drift
3. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Functionalism
Adaptation
Homo Erectus
Kroeber
4. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
gene flow
Syntax
Benedict
Potlatch
5. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Sapir-Whorf
Theory of organic evolution
Austrailia indians
Social Darwinism
6. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Agriculture
Java Man
Cargo Cult
Emile Durkheim
7. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Ritual
New World monkeys
Policy Research
EB Tylor
8. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
State
African Economic Organization
Relative time
Nistri periscope
9. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)
Gens
Social Darwinism
Caste
Neanderthals
10. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
International Development
Individual Peculiarities
Pragmatics
Modernization
11. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Upper Paleo period
Polygamy
Nuclear Family
Civilization
12. 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.
Egyptology
Homo Erectus
State
Chiefdom
13. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Petrie
Ethnology
Savagery
Cargo Cult
14. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Referencial Symbol
Egyptian diffusion
Catal Huyak
Leakey family
15. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Taboo
State
platyrrhini
Anthropometry
16. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Balanced Reciprocity
old world monkeys
Natural selection
Applied Anthropology
17. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Australopithecus
State
Chromosome
18. (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
Animism
Totem
Tributary Production
Malinowski
19. 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
Linguistics
Formal Economics
Balanced Reciprocity
mana
20. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Phonology
Cro-Magnon
Stimulus Diffusion
Radcliffe-Brown
21. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Genotype
Myth
Religion
Shaman
22. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Mauss
Cultural Resource Assessment
Mayan indians
Nuclear Family
23. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Egypt
Pacific indians
Polygamy
24. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Shaman
polyandry
Peking Man
International Development
25. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Potlatch
South American indians
EB Tylor
26. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Savagery
Balanced Reciprocity
Phonology
James George Frazer
27. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Malinowski
Austrailia indians
Geophysical prospecting
Industrialization
28. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Kindred
Bands & Tribes
Allele frequency
Policy Research
29. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Nitrogenous Bases
platyrrhini
Unit of Kinship
KhoiKhoi
30. 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.
Monarchy
Cargo Cult
homonoids
polished stone
31. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Phases of rituals
Unilineal Descent
Genotypic Variations
Directed Cultural Change
32. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Gens
Benedict
Cultural Resource Assessment
Dead Sea scrolls
33. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Specialities
Redistribution
mana
34. 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).
Unit of Kinship
Intervention Anthropology
Migration of Erectus
Egyptian diffusion
35. Relatives through marriage
babylonians
Greeks
Ziggurat
Affinal kin
36. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Kindred
Neanderthals
platyrrhini
Tributary Production
37. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Modernization
polyandry
Band
Diffusion
38. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Anthropology
Cultural relativism
Morphology
Evaluation research
39. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
South American indians
Yanomamo
Market Exchange
Ideal culture
40. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Linguistics
Semantics
Directed Cultural Change
Structural-functional
41. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Intervention Anthropology
Religion
Alternatives
Monogamy
42. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Australopithecus
War
Franz Boas
Levi-Strauss
43. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Benedict
Gene
State
44. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Structuralism
Africa
Elsie Parsons
Cultural Evolution
45. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Schliemann
Geerts
homonoids
James George Frazer
46. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Superposition
Levirate
Matrilineal Descent
Yanomamo
47. 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.
Market Exchange
Armchair Anthropologists
International Development
Mutation
48. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Totem
Yanomamo Feasting
Mesopotamia
49. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Diffusion
Kroeber
Radcliffe-Brown
Levi-Strauss
50. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Savagery
old world monkeys
DNA
Feudal System