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DSST General Anthropology
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1. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Austrailia indians
KhoiKhoi
Java Man
Cargo Cult
2. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Mayan indians
mana
Gene
Mendel's third principle of genetics
3. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
endogamy
sharp edges
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Real Culture
4. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
classical archaeology
Alternatives
Functionalism
polyandry
5. Thinker: social stratification
Anthropology
James George Frazer
Weber
Benedict
6. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Agriculture
Geerts
polyandry
Stratigraphy
7. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Balanced Reciprocity
Phases of rituals
Central American indians
Magnetic prospecting
8. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Neolithic Technology
Genotype
Production
Chiefdom
9. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Noosphere
Status
Pacific indians
State
10. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Cultural Resource Assessment
Neolithic Technology
Affinal kin
Catal Huyak
11. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
Archaeology
Symbol
Mutation
12. Shorthand - Morse Code
perforated edges
Animism
Formal Economics
Condensed Symbol
13. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
James George Frazer
Pacific indians
Franz Boas
Fieldwork
14. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Theory of organic evolution
Margaret Mead
Mutagen
Franz Boas
15. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Structural-functional
Kroeber
Paleolithic period
Cultural Anthropology
16. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Mythology
Generalized Reciprocity
Civilization
Mendel's second principle of genetics
17. 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)
Kroeber
Egypt
Neolithic Technology
Assyrians
18. 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]
culture
Franz Boas
African Economic Organization
Adaptation
19. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
DNA
New World monkeys
Totem
20. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Chiefdom
Legitimacy
Petrie
21. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Moieties
Technology development research
Pacific indians
22. 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.
Monogamy
Writing
Linguistics
Armchair Anthropologists
23. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Technology development research
Nistri periscope
Pragmatics
24. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Ziggurat
Mayan indians
Civilization
EB Tylor
25. Traces back to ONE person
Lineage
WG Rivers
Chiefdom
Non-warlike people
26. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Syntax
Central American indians
Revitalization
Kinship
27. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Levi-Strauss
Cultural Ecology
Levy-Bruhl
Malinowski
28. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Ziggurat
Shaman
Franz Boas
Adaptation
29. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Neanderthals
Universalities
Redistribution
Birth of Anthropology
30. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Catal Huyak
Olduvai Gorge
Hunter/Gatherers
Relative time
31. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Elsie Parsons
Middle Paleo Period
Egyptian diffusion
Asian farming
32. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
KhoiKhoi
Lower Paleo Period
Homo Habilis
Structuralism
33. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Redistribution
Adaptation
Cultural Resource Assessment
husbandry
34. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Savagery
Stimulus Diffusion
Biosphere
Survival
35. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Emile Durkheim
Crossing over
pastoralism
Mutagen
36. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Mesopotamia
Homonids
Directed Cultural Change
WG Rivers
37. Determining the success of a project
primates
Migration of Erectus
Evaluation research
Anthropoids
38. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Absolute time
Mauss
Levirate
Cargo Cult
39. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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40. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Survival
Totem
North American Indians
Excavation
41. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Franz Boas
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Hebrews
Gene migration
42. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Genotype
Policy Research
Genetic drift
Dating methods
43. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Genetic Recombination
Anthropometry
Totem
Monarchy
44. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Gene pool
Anthropology
Dating methods
Market Exchange
45. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Olduvai Gorge
Stratigraphy
Structuralism
46. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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47. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
Noosphere
Linguistics
Egypt
48. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Natural selection
Totem
Biosphere
49. (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
Greeks
Phratry
Animism
culture
50. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
phenotype
chimpanzee
Allele frequency