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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
Cross-cousins
Class
Java Man
2. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Barbarism
Social impact assessment
Phonology
Matrilineal Descent
3. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Monarchy
Feudal System
Schliemann
Ziggurat
4. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Geosphere
Genetic drift
Cargo Cult
Mendel's third principle of genetics
5. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Hittites
old world monkeys
perforated edges
Cargo Cult
6. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Peking Man
Homo Erectus
Real Culture
Neolithic Period
7. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Social practices
Formal Economics
Crossing over
James George Frazer
8. Holistic study of humanity.
Phonology
Anthropology
Adaptation
Formal Economics
9. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
European farming
Functionalism
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Resource Assessment
10. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Industrialization
KhoiKhoi
Neanderthals
Structural-functional
11. Ways to date artifacts
Cultural Evolution
homonoids
Allele frequency
Dating methods
12. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Market Exchange
Dating methods
Chromosome
Mendelian population
13. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Franz Boas
Petrie
Policy Research
Hunter/Gatherers
14. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Gene migration
exogamy
Revitalization
15. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Elsie Parsons
carbon-14 dating
Intervention Anthropology
Margaret Mead
16. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Legitimacy
Caste
Divorce
17. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Structuralism
Ethnocentrism
Franz Boas
Allele frequency
18. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Mutagen
Phonology
Generalized Reciprocity
Cro-Magnon
19. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Poy Tang Lon
Leakey family
Potlatch
McLennan
20. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Religion
Taboo
American farming
Policy Research
21. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Gene migration
Biosphere
Cultural Ecology
culture
22. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Egypt
platyrrhini
Taboo
23. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Assyrians
Ritual
Gene
Mayan indians
24. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Specialities
Status
Theory of organic evolution
Egyptian diffusion
25. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Gene
Linguistics
polished stone
26. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Physical Anthropology
Survival
Stratigraphy
Kluckhohn
27. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Catal Huyak
Structural-functional
Petrie
Kroeber
28. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Kinship
Animal domestication
Mythology
mana
29. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Central American indians
Shaman
Weber
Modernization
30. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Class
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Paleolithic period
chimpanzee
31. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Superposition
homonoids
Schliemann
Asian farming
32. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Affinal kin
Diffusion
Agriculture
Middle Paleo Period
33. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Matrilineal Descent
Divorce
Kroeber
Poy Tang Lon
34. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Genetic Recombination
Linguistics
Gens
Upper Paleo period
35. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Divorce
Referencial Symbol
Chiefdom
Agriculture
36. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
Levy-Bruhl
American farming
Culture
37. Traces back to ONE person
European farming
Lineage
Peking Man
Anthropoids
38. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Legitimacy
Chiefdom
Phonology
Market Exchange
39. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Taboo
Malinowski
Clan
exogamy
40. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Emile Durkheim
Austrailia indians
Barbarism
Mary Douglas Leakey
41. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Petrie
International Development
Quantitative Research
Middle east farming
42. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Civilization
chimpanzee
Poy Tang Lon
Mythology
43. 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)
Affinal kin
Quinceanera
Social Darwinism
husbandry
44. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Ziggurat
Functionalism
Feudal System
Generalized Reciprocity
45. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Tribe
Cognatic Descent
prosimians
Anthropometry
46. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Kindred
Religion
prehistoric archaeology
culture
47. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Balanced Reciprocity
Bands & Tribes
Birth of Anthropology
48. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Elsie Parsons
Phonetics
Yanomamo
Genpuku
49. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
platyrrhini
Monogamy
Emic perspective
50. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Theory of organic evolution
Petrie
Culture
pastoralism