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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Malinowski
Band
polished stone
Chiefdom
2. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Kindred
Catal Huyak
African Economic Organization
Excavation
3. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Ethnology
husbandry
Policy Research
James George Frazer
4. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Morphology
old world monkeys
Directed Cultural Change
Adaptation
5. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
radiometric dating
Myth
Genpuku
Status
6. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
platyrrhini
Tribe
Cargo Cult
Chiefdom
7. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Natural selection
Cargo Cult
3 types of excavation
North American Indians
8. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Symbol
Structuralism
Dead Sea scrolls
Warlike people
9. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
Diffusion
Allele
Lineage
10. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Gene
Conspicuous Consumption
Mendel's third principle of genetics
phenotype
11. 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)
Assyrians
Kroeber
Monogamy
Adaptation
12. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Reciprocity
Individual Peculiarities
Pragmatics
Relative time
13. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Structural-functional
Natural selection
Savagery
Feudal System
14. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Hebrews
homonoids
Franz Boas
Generalized Reciprocity
15. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
culture
Totem
Feudal System
State
16. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Cultural Ecology
Stimulus Diffusion
Animal domestication
Genpuku
17. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
carbon-14 dating
Mendelian population
Genpuku
Cultural relativism
18. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Structural-functional
Migration of Erectus
Myth
19. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
DNA
Mesopotamia
Ideal culture
classical archaeology
20. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Yanomamo Feasting
Absolute time
Anthropoids
Sumerians
21. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Radcliffe-Brown
Mendelian population
Bands & Tribes
Cultural relativism
22. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Electromagnetic prospecting
Gene migration
Relative time
Directed Cultural Change
23. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Gene pool
Hammurabi
African Economic Organization
Barbarism
24. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Armchair Anthropologists
Phonology
Archaeology
Ethnology
25. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Genotypic Variations
Nistri periscope
Yanomamo Feasting
26. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Middle east farming
Policy Research
Ethnography
classical archaeology
27. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
Asian farming
Unit of Kinship
homonoids
28. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
South American indians
Radcliffe-Brown
mana
Substantive Economics
29. 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
Excavation
Pragmatics
Theory of organic evolution
30. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Geosphere
Cargo Cult
Symbol
Functionalism
31. 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)
Hunter/Gatherers
Qualitative Research
Revitalization
State
32. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
Nuclear Family
Sumerians
Potlatch
33. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Morphology
Taboo
Structural-functional
Cultural Evolution
34. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
James George Frazer
Quinceanera
Poy Tang Lon
Peking Man
35. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Emic perspective
Gene pool
Egypt
Referencial Symbol
36. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
DNA
Cognatic Descent
Levi-Strauss
Ethnography
37. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Egyptology
Electromagnetic prospecting
Bands & Tribes
Genotypic Variations
38. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
McLennan
WG Rivers
Evaluation research
Social Darwinism
39. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Schliemann
Evaluation research
Kindred
Gene migration
40. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
McLennan
Social Class Manifestation
Phonetics
Neolithic Period
41. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Middle Paleo Period
classical archaeology
Culture
Yanomamo Feasting
42. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Geosphere
Crossing over
North American Indians
Linguistics
43. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Mesolithic Period
Excavation
Cognatic Descent
platyrrhini
44. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
culture
Petrie
Egypt
Alternatives
45. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Warlike people
Tributary Production
Allele
primates
46. 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.
Cultural Evolution
Etic perspective
Dokimasi
Mendelian population
47. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Applied Anthropology
Noosphere
Qualitative Research
State
48. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
carbon-14 dating
Mary Douglas Leakey
Cargo Cult
Anthropoids
49. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Mythology
Egyptology
Civilization
Egyptian diffusion
50. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
Cultural Resource Assessment
Affinal kin
primates