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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Shorthand - Morse Code
Negative Reciprocity
Condensed Symbol
Functionalism
Hebrews
2. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Cultural Resource Assessment
Taboo
State
Ethnocentrism
3. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Gene pool
Culture
Ziggurat
4. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
Directed Cultural Change
EB Tylor
prosimians
5. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Cargo Cult
platyrrhini
Neanderthals
Mayan indians
6. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Phonetics
Franz Boas
Allele frequency
Geosphere
7. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
International Development
Totem
Emile Durkheim
Excavation
8. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Homo Habilis
Formal Economics
KhoiKhoi
Linguistics
9. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Cultural Ecology
Schliemann
Moieties
Nistri periscope
10. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Reciprocity
polished stone
Java Man
Anthropometry
11. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
perforated edges
Genotype
Physical Anthropology
12. Family that raised you
International Development
Olduvai Gorge
Family of orientation
Ethnology
13. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mauss
Survival
Mutagen
Directed Cultural Change
14. Civilization to invent 'zero'
exogamy
James George Frazer
babylonians
Warlike people
15. (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
Semantics
Anthropometry
Hammurabi
Animism
16. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Noosphere
Nuclear Family
Symbol
Catal Huyak
17. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Balanced Reciprocity
Myth
sharp edges
Anthropoids
18. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Allele
Yanomamo
Real Culture
Bands & Tribes
19. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Moieties
Social impact assessment
Levi-Strauss
Mythology
20. 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.
Noosphere
Crossing over
Allele
Gene pool
21. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Biosphere
International Development
Referencial Symbol
Dead Sea scrolls
22. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
primates
Reciprocity
Pacific indians
Africa
23. (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
Dead Sea scrolls
Sanction
Mesolithic Period
Middle Paleo Period
24. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
KhoiKhoi
Kroeber
Negative Reciprocity
Genetic drift
25. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Allele
Bronze Age
Nitrogenous Bases
Olduvai Gorge
26. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Cultural Resource Assessment
Symbol
North American Indians
Mayan indians
27. 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)
Quantitative Research
South American indians
Malinowski
Anthropometry
28. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Mythology
Neanderthals
Anthropology
Matrilineal Descent
29. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Excavation
Pacific indians
Biosphere
Armchair Anthropologists
30. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Unilineal Descent
Natural selection
Java Man
Middle Paleo Period
31. 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
Nitrogenous Bases
Warlike people
Gene
32. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Neolithic Period
EB Tylor
Cultural Ecology
Mutagen
33. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Genotypic Variations
Alternatives
North American Indians
Referencial Symbol
34. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Pragmatics
Levirate
Real Culture
Genetic Recombination
35. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Cargo Cult
Dokimasi
Stratigraphy
Gene pool
36. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Malinowski
Magnetic prospecting
perforated edges
Caste
37. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Applied Anthropology
Radcliffe-Brown
Condensed Symbol
Class
38. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Poy Tang Lon
chimpanzee
Religion
Intervention Anthropology
39. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Unit of Kinship
Lineage
Civilization
Benedict
40. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Cargo Cult
Ziggurat
Generalized Reciprocity
New World monkeys
41. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Real Culture
Geophysical prospecting
Reciprocity
Absolute time
42. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
Armchair Anthropologists
European farming
Middle Paleo Period
Cro-Magnon
43. 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
Anthropometry
Lower Paleo Period
Genetic Recombination
Real Culture
44. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Paleolithic period
Monogamy
Family of procreation
Diffusion
45. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
Yanomamo
Functionalism
Electromagnetic prospecting
46. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
sharp edges
Cargo Cult
Morphology
Egypt
47. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
perforated edges
Geophysical prospecting
African Economic Organization
South American indians
48. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Shaman
Dating methods
Pragmatics
Sondages
49. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
South American indians
Africa
Leakey family
Homo Habilis
50. 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
Polygamy
Olduvai Gorge
platyrrhini
Potlatch