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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Dead Sea scrolls
Relative time
Unilineal Descent
Middle Paleo Period
2. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
prehistoric archaeology
Mendelian population
Generalized Reciprocity
3. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Neolithic Period
old world monkeys
Cargo Cult
Bands & Tribes
4. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Archaeology
Gene
Catal Huyak
5. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Poy Tang Lon
Hebrews
Tributary Production
Cultural Anthropology
6. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Olduvai Gorge
Fieldwork
Condensed Symbol
Petrie
7. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Status
Olduvai Gorge
Functionalism
Sondages
8. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Leakey family
Etic perspective
Status
polyandry
9. Things all people do the same way (language)
New World monkeys
Universalities
Genotypic Variations
Mendelian population
10. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Sanction
Functionalism
Anthropometry
Levirate
11. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Quinceanera
Nitrogenous Bases
McLennan
Mendel's second principle of genetics
12. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Allele frequency
Genetic drift
Structural-functional
Natural selection
13. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Geosphere
Upper Paleo period
Modernization
Ethnography
14. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Symbol
Anthropoids
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Allele frequency
15. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Gene pool
Birth of Anthropology
Levirate
16. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Class
Alternatives
Quinceanera
17. Holistic study of humanity.
Weber
James George Frazer
Anthropometry
Anthropology
18. Family that raised you
Cultural Resource Assessment
Barbarism
Family of orientation
Technology development research
19. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Stimulus Diffusion
Mary Douglas Leakey
Phonetics
Allele
20. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
War
Middle east farming
Redistribution
Petrie
21. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Evaluation research
Clan
Status
Condensed Symbol
22. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Anthropoids
3 types of excavation
perforated edges
Benedict
23. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Geerts
Ethnocentrism
Physical Anthropology
Social practices
24. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
Egyptian diffusion
Levy-Bruhl
polished stone
25. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Band
Ethnography
Cargo Cult
Migration of Erectus
26. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Physical Anthropology
Chiefdom
Ethnocentrism
Allele
27. (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
Cultural Resource Assessment
Upper Paleo period
Hunter/Gatherers
Potlatch
28. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
endogamy
Social practices
Structuralism
Individual Peculiarities
29. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Cultural Ecology
Clan
Social impact assessment
Semantics
30. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
State
Gene
Yanomamo
Non-warlike people
31. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Homonids
Matrilineal Descent
Cargo Cult
Benedict
32. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Migration of Erectus
Religion
African Economic Organization
Real Culture
33. (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)
Nuclear Family
Peking Man
Neolithic Period
Homo Erectus
34. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Allele
Social practices
Geosphere
Petrie
35. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
radiometric dating
Biosphere
Totem
Schliemann
36. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
Benedict
Mauss
Anthropoids
37. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Lineage
Hebrews
Cultural relativism
Cargo Cult
38. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
exogamy
Sapir-Whorf
Paleolithic period
Bands & Tribes
39. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Lineage
Levy-Bruhl
Individual Peculiarities
Gene migration
40. 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
gene flow
Sanction
Class
Ideal culture
41. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Elsie Parsons
Mutagen
Condensed Symbol
Semantics
42. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Ethnography
Nuclear Family
Leakey family
Africa
43. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Structuralism
Balanced Reciprocity
Monarchy
Homo Erectus
44. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
old world monkeys
Matrilineal Descent
Redistribution
Kinship
45. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Hebrews
Nistri periscope
Redistribution
Mayan indians
46. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
War
Unilineal Descent
Band
Olduvai Gorge
47. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Petrie
Matrilineal Descent
Allele
Australopithecus
48. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
classical archaeology
Pragmatics
Taboo
49. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Allele
Theory of organic evolution
Mutation
50. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Mauss
Malinowski
Unit of Kinship
Asian farming
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