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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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.
Geophysical prospecting
Benedict
Structuralism
Real Culture
2. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Elsie Parsons
Monarchy
Java Man
Homo Habilis
3. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Sumerians
Potlatch
homonoids
Pacific indians
4. 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.
Myth
Genetic Recombination
Divorce
Natural selection
5. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Agriculture
Allele
Central American indians
Malinowski
6. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Asian farming
Cultivation
Social impact assessment
Quantitative Research
7. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Ideal culture
Production
Physical Anthropology
International Development
8. 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)
Family of procreation
Revitalization
Social Darwinism
Caste
9. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
perforated edges
Schliemann
Australopithecus
Affinal kin
10. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
South American indians
Neolithic Period
Directed Cultural Change
11. 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.
Non-warlike people
Status
State
Gene
12. 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.
Physical Anthropology
Shaman
Austrailia indians
Lineage
13. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Clan
DNA
Market Exchange
radiometric dating
14. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Franz Boas
Non-warlike people
platyrrhini
Geosphere
15. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Geophysical prospecting
Schliemann
phenotype
Cultural Resource Assessment
16. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
mana
Writing
Greeks
Ethnocentrism
17. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
primates
Diffusion
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Anthropology
18. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Adaptation
Migration of Erectus
Policy Research
Mesopotamia
19. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Australopithecus
sharp edges
Gene migration
polyandry
20. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Kluckhohn
Genpuku
Ziggurat
Asian farming
21. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Semantics
Absolute time
Gene migration
Ideal culture
22. Invented smelting of iron
Pacific indians
Functionalism
Religion
Hittites
23. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
Universalities
Substantive Economics
Chiefdom
24. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Elsie Parsons
Cognatic Descent
Structural-functional
Myth
25. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Quinceanera
Polygamy
Genpuku
26. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Monarchy
classical archaeology
Structuralism
Feudal System
27. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Pragmatics
Social practices
Cro-Magnon
Benedict
28. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Sanction
Relative time
Taboo
Feudal System
29. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Cultural relativism
Migration of Erectus
Social impact assessment
Horticulture
30. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Biosphere
Band
Austrailia indians
Conspicuous Consumption
31. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Geerts
Dead Sea scrolls
DNA
Levirate
32. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Ethnocentrism
Africa
Emile Durkheim
Middle east farming
33. Thinkers: linguistics
endogamy
Caste
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Morphology
34. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
exogamy
Physical Anthropology
Genetic Recombination
35. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Homonids
endogamy
Ritual
perforated edges
36. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Genetic drift
Substantive Economics
Catal Huyak
Middle Paleo Period
37. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Ziggurat
Egyptology
Upper Paleo period
Barbarism
38. 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
Dating methods
Feudal System
Lower Paleo Period
Stimulus Diffusion
39. Determining the success of a project
Genpuku
Anthropoids
Evaluation research
Gene pool
40. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
South American indians
Kroeber
Reciprocity
Olduvai Gorge
41. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Allele frequency
polished stone
Mutagen
Neolithic Period
42. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Directed Cultural Change
Dokimasi
Catal Huyak
43. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Sanction
Neanderthals
Mauss
Cro-Magnon
44. Traces back to ONE person
Aztec indians
carbon-14 dating
Assyrians
Lineage
45. 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]
Radcliffe-Brown
Animal domestication
Technology development research
Franz Boas
46. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Band
Qualitative Research
exogamy
Benedict
47. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Margaret Mead
Gene pool
Homo Habilis
Genetic Recombination
48. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Gene migration
Anthropology
Morphology
Elsie Parsons
49. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Sanction
Status
Ethnography
Writing
50. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Qualitative Research
radiometric dating
Australopithecus
Superposition
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