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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Archaeology
Nuclear Family
Moieties
Intervention Anthropology
2. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Java Man
Moieties
Schliemann
Etic perspective
3. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Africa
Crossing over
Etic perspective
Austrailia indians
4. 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.
Policy Research
Shaman
Noosphere
Natural selection
5. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Culture
Noosphere
Phratry
Greeks
6. 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
Ritual
Modernization
Cultural Anthropology
Homo Erectus
7. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
3 types of excavation
Pacific indians
prosimians
8. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Warlike people
Franz Boas
Lower Paleo Period
Semantics
9. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Quinceanera
Chromosome
Semantics
Ziggurat
10. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Petrie
Genpuku
Excavation
carbon-14 dating
11. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Peking Man
Monarchy
babylonians
Cro-Magnon
12. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Egyptology
Evaluation research
Levi-Strauss
sharp edges
13. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Universalities
Austrailia indians
Catal Huyak
mana
14. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Physical Anthropology
Barbarism
Production
Family of orientation
15. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
classical archaeology
Asian farming
Quantitative Research
Social Class Manifestation
16. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Greeks
carbon-14 dating
Production
Sanction
17. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Ritual
Cro-Magnon
Archaeology
Stimulus Diffusion
18. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
polyandry
Greeks
Africa
Genetic Recombination
19. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Genotypic Variations
Excavation
Gene pool
Egyptian diffusion
20. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cultural Ecology
Magnetic prospecting
Syntax
21. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Social Class Manifestation
Referencial Symbol
Greeks
Benedict
22. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
DNA
Austrailia indians
Excavation
endogamy
23. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Levi-Strauss
Homo Erectus
Polygamy
Electromagnetic prospecting
24. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Emile Durkheim
Phonology
James George Frazer
prosimians
25. 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.
Affinal kin
Schliemann
Natural selection
Genotypic Variations
26. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
phenotype
Lineage
gene flow
Egypt
27. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Paleolithic period
Structural-functional
Gene migration
Levi-Strauss
28. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Genotype
Sanction
Reciprocity
Aztec indians
29. 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
Totem
Evaluation research
gene flow
30. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Etic perspective
sharp edges
Polygamy
Mendelian population
31. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
radiometric dating
Levirate
Benedict
Band
32. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Mutation
Radcliffe-Brown
Matrilineal Descent
Noosphere
33. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Structural-functional
Hebrews
Morphology
Birth of Anthropology
34. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Franz Boas
pastoralism
Phratry
Hammurabi
35. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Matrilineal Descent
State
Absolute time
Condensed Symbol
36. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Symbol
KhoiKhoi
radiometric dating
Qualitative Research
37. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Functionalism
polished stone
Armchair Anthropologists
prosimians
38. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Middle Paleo Period
Social practices
Genotype
Peking Man
39. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Religion
Leakey family
culture
Social impact assessment
40. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Kluckhohn
Status
Homo Habilis
Natural selection
41. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Sumerians
Ideal culture
International Development
Clan
42. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Ethnology
Sumerians
Magnetic prospecting
Myth
43. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Genetic drift
Java Man
Monarchy
James George Frazer
44. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Elsie Parsons
Sumerians
Genpuku
Symbol
45. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Class
Genetic Recombination
Production
Clan
46. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
perforated edges
Agriculture
culture
Affinal kin
47. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Individual Peculiarities
Central American indians
Magnetic prospecting
Cross-cousins
48. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Egypt
Formal Economics
KhoiKhoi
Schliemann
49. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Kluckhohn
Substantive Economics
Real Culture
Stratigraphy
50. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
platyrrhini
Kluckhohn
mana
babylonians
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