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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Moieties
Geerts
Structuralism
Negative Reciprocity
2. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Status
Clan
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Genotype
3. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Bronze Age
mana
Olduvai Gorge
Mauss
4. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Sapir-Whorf
Survival
Symbol
State
5. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Monogamy
Cargo Cult
Social practices
Mutation
6. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Feudal System
Agriculture
Mary Douglas Leakey
Cargo Cult
7. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
pastoralism
Radcliffe-Brown
Quantitative Research
gene flow
8. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Cross-cousins
South American indians
Social impact assessment
Individual Peculiarities
9. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Modernization
Cognatic Descent
War
Gene
10. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Gene migration
Dokimasi
Java Man
Levirate
11. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Condensed Symbol
Substantive Economics
Franz Boas
Animal domestication
12. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Geerts
Generalized Reciprocity
Australopithecus
Lower Paleo Period
13. 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
Benedict
Peking Man
Redistribution
Homo Habilis
14. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Negative Reciprocity
Cultural Evolution
Individual Peculiarities
Legitimacy
15. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Cross-cousins
Ethnology
Petrie
Industrialization
16. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Industrialization
chimpanzee
sharp edges
Nuclear Family
17. 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
Kroeber
Egyptology
Animal domestication
Neanderthals
18. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Potlatch
Peking Man
Sondages
Cognatic Descent
19. 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.
Cultural Evolution
Armchair Anthropologists
Production
Cultural Anthropology
20. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
prehistoric archaeology
Genotype
Family of orientation
International Development
21. Shorthand - Morse Code
Sondages
babylonians
Specialities
Condensed Symbol
22. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Olduvai Gorge
Reciprocity
Hammurabi
Negative Reciprocity
23. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Quinceanera
Neolithic Period
Ziggurat
24. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Sapir-Whorf
Cargo Cult
Matrilineal Descent
Geophysical prospecting
25. Invented smelting of iron
Quantitative Research
Hittites
Conspicuous Consumption
Morphology
26. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Tribe
Mythology
Adaptation
mana
27. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Migration of Erectus
Cultural Resource Assessment
North American Indians
Theory of organic evolution
28. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Semantics
Cross-cousins
State
29. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
platyrrhini
Anthropology
African Economic Organization
30. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Mutagen
Natural selection
Cargo Cult
Anthropometry
31. Spread of something from one group to another
mana
Diffusion
sharp edges
Ritual
32. 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.
North American Indians
Family of orientation
Physical Anthropology
carbon-14 dating
33. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Etic perspective
Neolithic Technology
Bands & Tribes
Assyrians
34. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Religion
Savagery
KhoiKhoi
Hebrews
35. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Petrie
Anthropometry
Anthropology
Warlike people
36. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Mendelian population
Neanderthals
Cultivation
Cargo Cult
37. 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
Lower Paleo Period
Cargo Cult
Tribe
perforated edges
38. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Mayan indians
Balanced Reciprocity
Crossing over
Asian farming
39. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Phratry
Unilineal Descent
Ethnocentrism
Etic perspective
40. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Technology development research
Bronze Age
Anthropoids
Savagery
41. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Franz Boas
Functionalism
platyrrhini
Ethnology
42. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Agriculture
Paleolithic period
Ethnography
43. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Clan
Survival
Sanction
Kluckhohn
44. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Social impact assessment
Legitimacy
Linguistics
Status
45. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Hammurabi
Generalized Reciprocity
Lineage
Aztec indians
46. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Franz Boas
Biosphere
Non-warlike people
Egyptology
47. 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.
Diffusion
Class
Social practices
Cultural Evolution
48. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Dating methods
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Shaman
Mutation
49. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Middle east farming
Unilineal Descent
Phonology
prosimians
50. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Mesopotamia
Social Class Manifestation
Ethnology
mana
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