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DSST General Anthropology
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1. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Functionalism
Peking Man
Taboo
Geophysical prospecting
2. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Ideal culture
Redistribution
Polygamy
Schliemann
3. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Franz Boas
perforated edges
exogamy
Olduvai Gorge
4. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Theory of organic evolution
Culture
Directed Cultural Change
Ideal culture
5. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Survival
Physical Anthropology
Levi-Strauss
North American Indians
6. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Caste
Writing
Kinship
Egyptology
7. 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.
perforated edges
Theory of organic evolution
Civilization
Cargo Cult
8. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Egyptology
Gene
Phonology
Writing
9. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
Neanderthals
Armchair Anthropologists
Dokimasi
Levy-Bruhl
10. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Specialities
Dead Sea scrolls
Totem
DNA
11. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Cultural Resource Assessment
Levy-Bruhl
Olduvai Gorge
Mesolithic Period
12. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Poy Tang Lon
American farming
Family of orientation
Upper Paleo period
13. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
African Economic Organization
Sondages
Horticulture
14. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Sumerians
Animal domestication
Universalities
Qualitative Research
15. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Genotypic Variations
DNA
Margaret Mead
Individual Peculiarities
16. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Horticulture
polished stone
endogamy
Ritual
17. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Matrilineal Descent
Bronze Age
Mauss
Kroeber
18. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Referencial Symbol
Savagery
Homo Erectus
Sapir-Whorf
19. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Kinship
Sanction
Biosphere
Cultural Anthropology
20. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Survival
Hebrews
Gene pool
polyandry
21. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Egyptology
Survival
Ethnocentrism
Clan
22. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Mythology
African Economic Organization
polyandry
Genotypic Variations
23. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Yanomamo Feasting
Ethnocentrism
mana
Anthropometry
24. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Cargo Cult
Mendel's third principle of genetics
EB Tylor
Migration of Erectus
25. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Redistribution
Social impact assessment
Birth of Anthropology
Cargo Cult
26. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
sharp edges
Yanomamo Feasting
Dead Sea scrolls
pastoralism
27. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Greeks
radiometric dating
Chiefdom
pastoralism
28. Ways to date artifacts
Chromosome
Dating methods
Cargo Cult
Sumerians
29. 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.
Asian farming
Anthropoids
Armchair Anthropologists
old world monkeys
30. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Poy Tang Lon
Monarchy
Nistri periscope
Religion
31. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Cro-Magnon
Religion
Anthropology
Kluckhohn
32. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Rite of passage
Pacific indians
Paleolithic period
Agriculture
33. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Phonetics
Levy-Bruhl
Emile Durkheim
Linguistics
34. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Genotype
Egypt
Allele frequency
Levy-Bruhl
35. Thinker: social stratification
EB Tylor
Religion
Weber
husbandry
36. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
prosimians
Class
Superposition
Mesolithic Period
37. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Unilineal Descent
Nuclear Family
Biosphere
Egypt
38. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Ethnology
Ritual
chimpanzee
Cognatic Descent
39. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Kindred
Writing
Agriculture
War
40. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Austrailia indians
WG Rivers
Monogamy
Crossing over
41. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Sanction
Individual Peculiarities
Mutagen
Emile Durkheim
42. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
North American Indians
Kinship
New World monkeys
43. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Mauss
WG Rivers
Redistribution
Savagery
44. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
North American Indians
Java Man
Civilization
Directed Cultural Change
45. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Schliemann
Structural-functional
Franz Boas
polyandry
46. 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)
chimpanzee
Lineage
Social Darwinism
Monogamy
47. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Mauss
Cultural Ecology
Kroeber
Allele frequency
48. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Taboo
Benedict
Neolithic Period
Malinowski
49. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Catal Huyak
Cultural relativism
Animal domestication
Africa
50. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Catal Huyak
Fieldwork
Allele
Legitimacy