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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Physical Anthropology
radiometric dating
Birth of Anthropology
Policy Research
2. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Theory of organic evolution
Caste
Emic perspective
McLennan
3. 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.
Pragmatics
Specialities
Genpuku
Physical Anthropology
4. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Homo Erectus
Industrialization
Functionalism
Genotypic Variations
5. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Dead Sea scrolls
Lower Paleo Period
Geophysical prospecting
Condensed Symbol
6. Relatives through marriage
Genotypic Variations
Revitalization
Migration of Erectus
Affinal kin
7. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Allele frequency
platyrrhini
Ethnocentrism
Directed Cultural Change
8. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Austrailia indians
International Development
South American indians
Weber
9. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Myth
Bronze Age
James George Frazer
Homonids
10. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Unit of Kinship
Band
Sumerians
husbandry
11. (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)
Neolithic Period
Structuralism
Dating methods
Java Man
12. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Formal Economics
Catal Huyak
Electromagnetic prospecting
North American Indians
13. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Mary Douglas Leakey
Revitalization
Levirate
Survival
14. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Geosphere
Genetic drift
Lower Paleo Period
Cross-cousins
15. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
phenotype
Middle Paleo Period
Levi-Strauss
Elsie Parsons
16. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Archaeology
Cargo Cult
Totem
Upper Paleo period
17. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Geosphere
Emile Durkheim
Paleolithic period
Hebrews
18. 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
old world monkeys
Java Man
Applied Anthropology
Chromosome
19. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Technology development research
Dating methods
Armchair Anthropologists
McLennan
20. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Phonology
Fieldwork
Sondages
Tribe
21. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Specialities
Sondages
prosimians
Functionalism
22. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Bands & Tribes
Legitimacy
Benedict
Shaman
23. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
War
Semantics
Greeks
perforated edges
24. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Reciprocity
Culture
Cargo Cult
State
25. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
State
Sapir-Whorf
Ziggurat
Negative Reciprocity
26. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonetics
polished stone
Phonology
Kinship
27. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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28. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Birth of Anthropology
Mauss
Kinship
29. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
chimpanzee
Hebrews
phenotype
Cognatic Descent
30. Invented smelting of iron
Excavation
Hittites
Civilization
Neolithic Period
31. Thinkers: linguistics
Ideal culture
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Neolithic Technology
African Economic Organization
32. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Genotypic Variations
Ideal culture
Unit of Kinship
Diffusion
33. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
polished stone
Gene migration
prehistoric archaeology
Polygamy
34. 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.
European farming
Evaluation research
Genotype
homonoids
35. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
Real Culture
Diffusion
State
36. Holistic study of humanity.
Chromosome
Anthropology
Cargo Cult
Affinal kin
37. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Chiefdom
Specialities
New World monkeys
Symbol
38. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Birth of Anthropology
Phonetics
Greeks
Homonids
39. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Mutagen
Moieties
Alternatives
Genotype
40. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Phases of rituals
Phratry
Birth of Anthropology
mana
41. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Symbol
Qualitative Research
Polygamy
Mary Douglas Leakey
42. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Stratigraphy
Middle Paleo Period
Ethnography
Cultivation
43. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Cultural Evolution
WG Rivers
Levirate
Cro-Magnon
44. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Ziggurat
KhoiKhoi
Survival
American farming
45. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Natural selection
babylonians
Asian farming
Catal Huyak
46. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
radiometric dating
Middle Paleo Period
Family of procreation
47. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Industrialization
Cultural Ecology
Clan
Myth
48. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Nistri periscope
Matrilineal Descent
Weber
49. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Kindred
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Sanction
Phratry
50. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Bands & Tribes
Levy-Bruhl
Balanced Reciprocity
Fieldwork
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