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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Social Class Manifestation
Applied Anthropology
mana
2. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Australopithecus
Egyptian diffusion
Genpuku
culture
3. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Birth of Anthropology
Potlatch
Phonetics
Levi-Strauss
4. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Kluckhohn
Polygamy
International Development
Ethnography
5. Shorthand - Morse Code
Totem
Middle Paleo Period
Condensed Symbol
Generalized Reciprocity
6. Ways to date artifacts
Middle Paleo Period
Totem
Dating methods
Homonids
7. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Hittites
exogamy
Divorce
Quinceanera
8. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Nistri periscope
Agriculture
Redistribution
Kinship
9. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
3 types of excavation
Universalities
Middle east farming
10. Holistic study of humanity.
Emic perspective
Anthropology
Mutagen
Geosphere
11. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Polygamy
Cultural relativism
Geerts
Universalities
12. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Olduvai Gorge
Animal domestication
Mutation
KhoiKhoi
13. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Generalized Reciprocity
Referencial Symbol
Market Exchange
Egyptian diffusion
14. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Poy Tang Lon
polyandry
Real Culture
Formal Economics
15. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
New World monkeys
Horticulture
Egypt
Physical Anthropology
16. 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
Mesopotamia
sharp edges
Middle east farming
Franz Boas
17. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Asian farming
Geosphere
Middle Paleo Period
Revitalization
18. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Culture
Social impact assessment
Java Man
Geerts
19. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Emic perspective
Potlatch
Mutagen
husbandry
20. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Family of procreation
Neolithic Period
Mesopotamia
Australopithecus
21. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
prehistoric archaeology
Potlatch
Taboo
Anthropology
22. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Formal Economics
Elsie Parsons
Ritual
Barbarism
23. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Ethnology
Benedict
Migration of Erectus
Negative Reciprocity
24. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Balanced Reciprocity
Anthropoids
Archaeology
25. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Market Exchange
Etic perspective
platyrrhini
American farming
26. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Cultural Anthropology
Egyptian diffusion
old world monkeys
Dating methods
27. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Warlike people
Hebrews
Animism
28. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
mana
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Warlike people
endogamy
29. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
War
Elsie Parsons
Unilineal Descent
Ralph Lynton
30. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Sanction
Semantics
Kindred
Homo Erectus
31. Invented smelting of iron
Hittites
husbandry
Redistribution
platyrrhini
32. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
Homo Habilis
Excavation
Writing
33. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Neolithic Technology
Dokimasi
James George Frazer
Levy-Bruhl
34. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Sondages
Quantitative Research
Cargo Cult
Myth
35. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Relative time
gene flow
Feudal System
Levi-Strauss
36. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Sapir-Whorf
EB Tylor
Emic perspective
Syntax
37. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Policy Research
Allele
Noosphere
38. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Social Class Manifestation
Ziggurat
International Development
DNA
39. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
James George Frazer
Social Class Manifestation
Upper Paleo period
Monarchy
40. 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)
gene flow
Feudal System
Religion
Social Darwinism
41. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Specialities
Monarchy
perforated edges
African Economic Organization
42. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
Mauss
Egyptian diffusion
Ziggurat
43. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Malinowski
Warlike people
Mesolithic Period
Yanomamo
44. (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)
Cross-cousins
Phases of rituals
Neolithic Period
North American Indians
45. Thinkers: linguistics
sharp edges
Neolithic Period
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cultural Anthropology
46. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Cross-cousins
Schliemann
Assyrians
47. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Sanction
Evaluation research
Noosphere
Polygamy
48. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Ritual
Religion
Levy-Bruhl
Sondages
49. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Ritual
New World monkeys
Cultural Evolution
50. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Adaptation
Stratigraphy
Social practices
carbon-14 dating