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DSST General Anthropology
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1. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
classical archaeology
Neolithic Period
Conspicuous Consumption
Cro-Magnon
2. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Hittites
Shaman
Physical Anthropology
3. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
polished stone
Anthropology
Yanomamo
Unilineal Descent
4. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Family of procreation
Survival
pastoralism
gene flow
5. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Real Culture
Upper Paleo period
Ethnography
South American indians
6. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Social Class Manifestation
Divorce
Morphology
Hebrews
7. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
Bands & Tribes
Potlatch
Levirate
8. Determining the success of a project
Austrailia indians
Evaluation research
Theory of organic evolution
primates
9. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Mendelian population
Asian farming
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Specialities
10. 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
Absolute time
Olduvai Gorge
Lower Paleo Period
Neanderthals
11. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Savagery
James George Frazer
Mayan indians
Yanomamo Feasting
12. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Cultural Anthropology
Paleolithic period
Ideal culture
Franz Boas
13. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Structuralism
Assyrians
Tributary Production
Superposition
14. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Market Exchange
Ethnocentrism
Civilization
Unilineal Descent
15. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Gens
Ziggurat
McLennan
Yanomamo Feasting
16. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Stratigraphy
Theory of organic evolution
War
Matrilineal Descent
17. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Phonology
endogamy
Functionalism
Central American indians
18. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Mayan indians
Stimulus Diffusion
Phases of rituals
Genetic drift
19. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Upper Paleo period
Gene migration
Ethnology
Matrilineal Descent
20. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Quantitative Research
Africa
Nistri periscope
prosimians
21. Shorthand - Morse Code
Levirate
Condensed Symbol
polished stone
Cultural Ecology
22. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Civilization
Mutagen
Kinship
Mendelian population
23. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Java Man
polyandry
Quinceanera
Revitalization
24. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Semantics
Chromosome
Evaluation research
sharp edges
25. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Alternatives
Levy-Bruhl
Greeks
Dokimasi
26. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Kindred
Cognatic Descent
Levy-Bruhl
DNA
27. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
Mayan indians
homonoids
Chiefdom
Referencial Symbol
28. 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.
Theory of organic evolution
Physical Anthropology
Phases of rituals
Fieldwork
29. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Conspicuous Consumption
Matrilineal Descent
North American Indians
Ethnography
30. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Family of procreation
carbon-14 dating
Ritual
Central American indians
31. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Crossing over
Religion
Pacific indians
Cargo Cult
32. Relatives through marriage
Savagery
Affinal kin
Chiefdom
Sondages
33. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Negative Reciprocity
Functionalism
Mauss
Homo Erectus
34. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Applied Anthropology
Asian farming
Cro-Magnon
EB Tylor
35. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Gene migration
Agriculture
Gene
Balanced Reciprocity
36. 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
Peking Man
Social impact assessment
Mythology
Generalized Reciprocity
37. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Status
Agriculture
Allele frequency
Allele
38. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Cognatic Descent
James George Frazer
Birth of Anthropology
Bands & Tribes
39. 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]
Totem
Writing
Morphology
Franz Boas
40. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Linguistics
Nuclear Family
Franz Boas
Semantics
41. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Cognatic Descent
Nitrogenous Bases
Reciprocity
Sondages
42. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Real Culture
Referencial Symbol
Mary Douglas Leakey
Nuclear Family
43. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
exogamy
Leakey family
South American indians
sharp edges
44. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Savagery
Archaeology
Cultivation
Kluckhohn
45. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Mutagen
perforated edges
Unilineal Descent
Hebrews
46. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Unit of Kinship
Taboo
EB Tylor
Aztec indians
47. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Egypt
Homo Habilis
Formal Economics
Kindred
48. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Biosphere
classical archaeology
Class
Applied Anthropology
49. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Status
Diffusion
Savagery
Mutagen
50. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Social practices
Social Class Manifestation
Genotypic Variations
perforated edges