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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Austrailia indians
Structuralism
Ritual
2. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Hammurabi
Quantitative Research
Policy Research
Reciprocity
3. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Policy Research
Cargo Cult
Adaptation
Cultural Evolution
4. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Family of procreation
chimpanzee
Cognatic Descent
Egyptian diffusion
5. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Magnetic prospecting
Feudal System
Gene
Excavation
6. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Moieties
KhoiKhoi
Sondages
Morphology
7. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Pacific indians
Emic perspective
Unilineal Descent
Asian farming
8. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Alternatives
Malinowski
Middle Paleo Period
classical archaeology
9. 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
Functionalism
Applied Anthropology
Redistribution
War
10. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Morphology
Cultural Evolution
Class
Poy Tang Lon
11. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Evaluation research
Clan
Assyrians
Fieldwork
12. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Qualitative Research
Neolithic Technology
Market Exchange
Genetic drift
13. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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14. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Unilineal Descent
Homo Habilis
Gens
Upper Paleo period
15. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
Totem
European farming
Civilization
International Development
16. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Production
sharp edges
Bands & Tribes
Kindred
17. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
polished stone
African Economic Organization
Relative time
Real Culture
18. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Genotype
Feudal System
Chromosome
Redistribution
19. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
pastoralism
Egyptology
Nistri periscope
20. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
prosimians
Ethnocentrism
Greeks
Java Man
21. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Genetic Recombination
Kinship
Animism
Band
22. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Biosphere
Relative time
Olduvai Gorge
Homonids
23. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Sumerians
Market Exchange
Reciprocity
24. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Allele frequency
Etic perspective
Cross-cousins
25. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Cultivation
Band
Policy Research
Cultural Evolution
26. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Family of orientation
Legitimacy
Kroeber
Lineage
27. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Animism
James George Frazer
Clan
Malinowski
28. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Quantitative Research
Pragmatics
Agriculture
Pacific indians
29. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Negative Reciprocity
DNA
Excavation
Neolithic Technology
30. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
Myth
Individual Peculiarities
Religion
31. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Homo Habilis
New World monkeys
Cultivation
Culture
32. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Electromagnetic prospecting
Excavation
Genotypic Variations
old world monkeys
33. 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
Horticulture
Taboo
Balanced Reciprocity
Class
34. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Stratigraphy
Quinceanera
Mauss
Homonids
35. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Ralph Lynton
State
platyrrhini
Affinal kin
36. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Revitalization
Petrie
European farming
37. Relatives through marriage
Migration of Erectus
Affinal kin
Cultural Ecology
mana
38. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Moieties
Industrialization
Upper Paleo period
Polygamy
39. (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
Hunter/Gatherers
Neanderthals
Morphology
Cultural relativism
40. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Australopithecus
Ethnography
Neolithic Technology
Applied Anthropology
41. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
Taboo
Natural selection
Weber
Cultural relativism
42. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Emic perspective
Magnetic prospecting
mana
Dokimasi
43. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Franz Boas
Technology development research
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Status
44. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Cargo Cult
Feudal System
North American Indians
chimpanzee
45. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Olduvai Gorge
Theory of organic evolution
Reciprocity
Writing
46. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Modernization
Weber
Peking Man
McLennan
47. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Feudal System
Referencial Symbol
Asian farming
Mendelian population
48. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Aztec indians
Matrilineal Descent
Pragmatics
Geophysical prospecting
49. 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)
Social Darwinism
Totem
Animism
Ethnology
50. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Linguistics
Directed Cultural Change
Genetic Recombination
Cargo Cult
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