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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Mesopotamia
Cultural relativism
Totem
American farming
2. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
Austrailia indians
Franz Boas
Mutagen
3. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Animism
African Economic Organization
Status
4. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Superposition
Magnetic prospecting
Elsie Parsons
Caste
5. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Chiefdom
Status
Emile Durkheim
Homonids
6. 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
Middle east farming
Directed Cultural Change
James George Frazer
Mendel's second principle of genetics
7. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
EB Tylor
Alternatives
Social impact assessment
Aztec indians
8. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Hittites
Hebrews
Assyrians
Mauss
9. 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.
Physical Anthropology
Bands & Tribes
Ralph Lynton
Yanomamo Feasting
10. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Kindred
Kinship
Mayan indians
11. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Unit of Kinship
Genotype
gene flow
Cultural Anthropology
12. 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.
Egyptology
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Divorce
Noosphere
13. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Mesopotamia
Radcliffe-Brown
Animal domestication
polished stone
14. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Cultural relativism
Peking Man
Cultivation
15. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Quinceanera
Natural selection
Ideal culture
Linguistics
16. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Gene
polished stone
Levi-Strauss
Schliemann
17. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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18. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Genpuku
Referencial Symbol
Agriculture
War
19. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Symbol
Gens
Evaluation research
Divorce
20. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Sumerians
Diffusion
Polygamy
Genpuku
21. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Quantitative Research
War
radiometric dating
Etic perspective
22. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Religion
North American Indians
Africa
Australopithecus
23. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
North American Indians
Emic perspective
3 types of excavation
Genetic Recombination
24. Thinkers: linguistics
prehistoric archaeology
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Phratry
Chromosome
25. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
WG Rivers
Agriculture
Middle Paleo Period
perforated edges
26. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Adaptation
Anthropology
Hittites
Homonids
27. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Religion
chimpanzee
carbon-14 dating
Family of orientation
28. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Nitrogenous Bases
Bronze Age
Ziggurat
Fieldwork
29. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
New World monkeys
Tributary Production
Clan
Polygamy
30. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Barbarism
Nistri periscope
Absolute time
Cultural Evolution
31. 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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32. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Status
Migration of Erectus
Functionalism
Biosphere
33. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Divorce
Savagery
Theory of organic evolution
Clan
34. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Alternatives
Sondages
chimpanzee
Nistri periscope
35. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Cultural Evolution
Ideal culture
Cultural relativism
Greeks
36. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Gene pool
Formal Economics
Writing
Neolithic Technology
37. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Hammurabi
Anthropometry
babylonians
Clan
38. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Substantive Economics
Kinship
Hunter/Gatherers
Geerts
39. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Radcliffe-Brown
Margaret Mead
Affinal kin
Levirate
40. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Kluckhohn
Directed Cultural Change
Egypt
Sanction
41. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
gene flow
Africa
primates
Austrailia indians
42. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Migration of Erectus
Sapir-Whorf
Paleolithic period
Natural selection
43. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Social impact assessment
Cultural Anthropology
KhoiKhoi
Africa
44. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
International Development
Cultivation
EB Tylor
Specialities
45. 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)
Cargo Cult
Geerts
Cargo Cult
Assyrians
46. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
platyrrhini
chimpanzee
babylonians
47. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
classical archaeology
Dokimasi
Geosphere
Levy-Bruhl
48. Traces back to ONE person
Lineage
Olduvai Gorge
Rite of passage
Modernization
49. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Genetic Recombination
Natural selection
Dokimasi
Franz Boas
50. 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
Family of procreation
Greeks
Intervention Anthropology
Applied Anthropology