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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Social impact assessment
North American Indians
Allele
Radcliffe-Brown
2. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Cultural Anthropology
Alternatives
Chromosome
Geophysical prospecting
3. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Malinowski
War
Absolute time
Mendelian population
4. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cultivation
Poy Tang Lon
Divorce
Dating methods
5. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Technology development research
Neolithic Technology
Taboo
Nuclear Family
6. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Lower Paleo Period
Diffusion
Anthropometry
Chiefdom
7. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cognatic Descent
Alternatives
Yanomamo
Substantive Economics
8. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Phonetics
Middle east farming
Intervention Anthropology
9. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
husbandry
Ralph Lynton
Lineage
polyandry
10. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Conspicuous Consumption
Biosphere
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Emic perspective
11. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Ethnology
Nistri periscope
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Cultural relativism
12. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
classical archaeology
carbon-14 dating
Hammurabi
Polygamy
13. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Dating methods
old world monkeys
Intervention Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf
14. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
3 types of excavation
Generalized Reciprocity
Morphology
Austrailia indians
15. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
European farming
Emile Durkheim
Franz Boas
16. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Negative Reciprocity
Survival
Archaeology
Olduvai Gorge
17. Invented smelting of iron
Hammurabi
Kluckhohn
Hittites
classical archaeology
18. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Malinowski
Allele
Mary Douglas Leakey
Cargo Cult
19. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Geosphere
endogamy
Mutagen
Anthropometry
20. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
European farming
Moieties
Nuclear Family
Status
21. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
platyrrhini
Egypt
Emic perspective
22. 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
Aztec indians
Noosphere
Dead Sea scrolls
Applied Anthropology
23. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Armchair Anthropologists
homonoids
Genpuku
Nuclear Family
24. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
gene flow
Mesopotamia
Mythology
Mendel's first principle of genetics
25. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Structural-functional
Kluckhohn
Lower Paleo Period
Emile Durkheim
26. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Middle east farming
Allele frequency
Gens
Potlatch
27. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Ritual
Conspicuous Consumption
phenotype
Lower Paleo Period
28. 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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29. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Benedict
Intervention Anthropology
McLennan
Crossing over
30. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mendelian population
Neolithic Period
prosimians
Mauss
31. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Feudal System
Caste
Lower Paleo Period
Legitimacy
32. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
Divorce
Archaeology
Technology development research
33. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Chiefdom
Policy Research
Applied Anthropology
Emic perspective
34. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Reciprocity
phenotype
Absolute time
Linguistics
35. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
WG Rivers
State
Shaman
Social Class Manifestation
36. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
gene flow
Olduvai Gorge
New World monkeys
Neanderthals
37. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Directed Cultural Change
Fieldwork
Generalized Reciprocity
Sanction
38. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Status
Kluckhohn
Feudal System
Egyptian diffusion
39. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Functionalism
Peking Man
McLennan
Referencial Symbol
40. 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).
Greeks
Myth
Unit of Kinship
Homo Erectus
41. Shorthand - Morse Code
Fieldwork
Absolute time
Mesolithic Period
Condensed Symbol
42. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Nitrogenous Bases
Weber
Cro-Magnon
Phonology
43. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Egypt
Paleolithic period
Cultural Evolution
Genotype
44. 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
European farming
Caste
Monogamy
Homo Erectus
45. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Crossing over
International Development
Substantive Economics
Cultural Evolution
46. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Hebrews
Birth of Anthropology
phenotype
Mendel's second principle of genetics
47. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Catal Huyak
Ethnography
Archaeology
48. 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
Egyptology
Universalities
Redistribution
Lower Paleo Period
49. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Elsie Parsons
Diffusion
Catal Huyak
Chromosome
50. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
classical archaeology
Leakey family
Stimulus Diffusion
Kinship