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DSST General Anthropology
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1. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Quantitative Research
Warlike people
Mendelian population
Industrialization
2. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Cultivation
Kindred
Reciprocity
Hunter/Gatherers
3. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Warlike people
Religion
Social impact assessment
Clan
4. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
pastoralism
Greeks
Egyptology
endogamy
5. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Tribe
Levi-Strauss
Specialities
6. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Gene pool
platyrrhini
Cargo Cult
Genpuku
7. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Quantitative Research
Kluckhohn
Levirate
Assyrians
8. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Linguistics
Production
Nitrogenous Bases
Universalities
9. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Mary Douglas Leakey
Totem
Survival
Australopithecus
10. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Genetic Recombination
Band
Ziggurat
Totem
11. 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)
Gens
Malinowski
Paleolithic period
WG Rivers
12. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Evaluation research
Substantive Economics
Barbarism
Fieldwork
13. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
American farming
African Economic Organization
prehistoric archaeology
Java Man
14. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Upper Paleo period
Qualitative Research
Geerts
Migration of Erectus
15. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Structuralism
carbon-14 dating
Java Man
Directed Cultural Change
16. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Ethnography
Industrialization
Functionalism
17. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Neolithic Technology
Shaman
Rite of passage
Assyrians
18. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
mana
Cross-cousins
Intervention Anthropology
Unit of Kinship
19. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Migration of Erectus
KhoiKhoi
Phonology
Modernization
20. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Emile Durkheim
Cargo Cult
EB Tylor
Genetic Recombination
21. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.
prehistoric archaeology
Morphology
Legitimacy
Diffusion
22. 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)
Neolithic Technology
Revitalization
Industrialization
Social Darwinism
23. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Band
Margaret Mead
polyandry
Social impact assessment
24. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Status
Cargo Cult
Gene pool
Real Culture
25. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Crossing over
Taboo
Asian farming
prehistoric archaeology
26. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Substantive Economics
Caste
Aztec indians
Allele
27. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Absolute time
Cultivation
Hunter/Gatherers
Ethnography
28. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Upper Paleo period
Structuralism
Family of orientation
Genetic Recombination
29. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Tributary Production
Elsie Parsons
Myth
Band
30. 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
Structural-functional
Dokimasi
Feudal System
Applied Anthropology
31. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Cro-Magnon
Franz Boas
husbandry
Mutagen
32. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Unit of Kinship
Ritual
Gene migration
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
33. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Phases of rituals
Survival
Neolithic Technology
Egyptian diffusion
34. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Lineage
Gens
Quinceanera
Generalized Reciprocity
35. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Feudal System
Archaeology
Adaptation
Biosphere
36. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Paleolithic period
Family of orientation
Pragmatics
Survival
37. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Formal Economics
Pacific indians
Yanomamo Feasting
Leakey family
38. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
Status
Nuclear Family
Radcliffe-Brown
39. Traces back to ONE person
Weber
Intervention Anthropology
Lineage
Social Darwinism
40. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
Poy Tang Lon
Peking Man
Ritual
41. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
chimpanzee
Petrie
Olduvai Gorge
gene flow
42. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Stimulus Diffusion
Formal Economics
Quinceanera
Mesopotamia
43. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Yanomamo Feasting
Culture
Assyrians
Allele frequency
44. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Mary Douglas Leakey
Directed Cultural Change
War
Leakey family
45. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Etic perspective
Asian farming
Genpuku
endogamy
46. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Anthropology
Allele frequency
Homo Erectus
Hunter/Gatherers
47. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Modernization
Family of procreation
Stimulus Diffusion
Cargo Cult
48. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Survival
pastoralism
Taboo
Pacific indians
49. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Geophysical prospecting
Mythology
Superposition
50. 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)
Class
Revitalization
Elsie Parsons
prehistoric archaeology