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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Hebrews
exogamy
Malinowski
Yanomamo
2. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Alternatives
Egyptology
babylonians
New World monkeys
3. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Tribe
Social practices
Levirate
Mary Douglas Leakey
4. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Mesolithic Period
WG Rivers
mana
Cross-cousins
5. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Cross-cousins
Gene
Taboo
Genetic drift
6. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Physical Anthropology
Mesopotamia
Formal Economics
Leakey family
7. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
polished stone
chimpanzee
Radcliffe-Brown
Cargo Cult
8. 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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9. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
State
Noosphere
Sapir-Whorf
Anthropometry
10. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Mayan indians
Asian farming
Referencial Symbol
Linguistics
11. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Sanction
Anthropology
Unit of Kinship
New World monkeys
12. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Benedict
Diffusion
Central American indians
13. 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)
Social Darwinism
Semantics
Matrilineal Descent
Legitimacy
14. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Animal domestication
Phonetics
Feudal System
15. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Geophysical prospecting
Peking Man
KhoiKhoi
Genetic drift
16. Thinkers: linguistics
Civilization
Policy Research
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
radiometric dating
17. Thinker: social stratification
Lineage
Stratigraphy
Physical Anthropology
Weber
18. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Clan
Tribe
Industrialization
Taboo
19. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Catal Huyak
Mutagen
Civilization
polished stone
20. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Cultural Evolution
Nuclear Family
Franz Boas
phenotype
21. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Weber
Chromosome
Yanomamo
Civilization
22. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Syntax
Myth
Cargo Cult
23. 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
Magnetic prospecting
Polygamy
Lower Paleo Period
Animal domestication
24. 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.
Ideal culture
Balanced Reciprocity
Shaman
Physical Anthropology
25. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Emile Durkheim
polished stone
Civilization
Mendel's second principle of genetics
26. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Physical Anthropology
Monarchy
Anthropoids
Pacific indians
27. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Social Darwinism
Neolithic Technology
Africa
radiometric dating
28. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Condensed Symbol
Savagery
International Development
Reciprocity
29. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Mendelian population
Middle east farming
Upper Paleo period
Theory of organic evolution
30. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'
Levy-Bruhl
Chromosome
Archaeology
Homo Habilis
31. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Cultural Anthropology
Unilineal Descent
Malinowski
Affinal kin
32. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Superposition
Dokimasi
North American Indians
Radcliffe-Brown
33. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Dating methods
Market Exchange
Homo Habilis
Animal domestication
34. 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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35. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Phratry
Negative Reciprocity
Fieldwork
36. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Armchair Anthropologists
Relative time
Nistri periscope
Homo Erectus
37. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Genpuku
Cargo Cult
culture
Potlatch
38. 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
phenotype
War
Warlike people
Neanderthals
39. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Ralph Lynton
Substantive Economics
Condensed Symbol
Balanced Reciprocity
40. 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]
African Economic Organization
Animal domestication
Franz Boas
Referencial Symbol
41. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Tributary Production
Australopithecus
Caste
Crossing over
42. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Moieties
Monarchy
radiometric dating
Revitalization
43. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Sapir-Whorf
Levy-Bruhl
Electromagnetic prospecting
Modernization
44. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Neanderthals
Fieldwork
Legitimacy
Diffusion
45. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Nitrogenous Bases
culture
sharp edges
Magnetic prospecting
46. (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
State
Animism
Clan
Ethnocentrism
47. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
husbandry
Levi-Strauss
Sanction
Armchair Anthropologists
48. 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
Hebrews
Social Darwinism
Modernization
Cargo Cult
49. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Totem
Gens
Sumerians
Aztec indians
50. 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.
Religion
Natural selection
mana
Sumerians