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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
old world monkeys
Anthropoids
Yanomamo
Production
2. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Leakey family
Java Man
Industrialization
Cro-Magnon
3. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Dead Sea scrolls
Chiefdom
husbandry
Polygamy
4. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Pragmatics
Family of procreation
Intervention Anthropology
Social practices
5. 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.
State
Non-warlike people
Weber
Civilization
6. 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.
Savagery
Catal Huyak
Noosphere
Nuclear Family
7. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Cultural Ecology
Monarchy
polyandry
Mendel's third principle of genetics
8. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Migration of Erectus
Middle Paleo Period
Cultural Anthropology
9. 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
Class
Policy Research
Geosphere
Ethnocentrism
10. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Unilineal Descent
American farming
Structural-functional
11. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Moieties
Aztec indians
Balanced Reciprocity
Ritual
12. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
perforated edges
Kluckhohn
Kroeber
Moieties
13. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Homonids
South American indians
platyrrhini
Sondages
14. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Relative time
Cargo Cult
Tribe
Excavation
15. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Gens
Genetic drift
carbon-14 dating
Elsie Parsons
16. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Fieldwork
Chromosome
Specialities
classical archaeology
17. Traces back to ONE person
Lineage
Anthropometry
chimpanzee
Neolithic Period
18. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Radcliffe-Brown
endogamy
Mesopotamia
3 types of excavation
19. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Ideal culture
Relative time
Weber
Noosphere
20. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Status
Levi-Strauss
Asian farming
Anthropoids
21. 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
Mendelian population
Formal Economics
Assyrians
Nistri periscope
22. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Family of procreation
Cargo Cult
Radcliffe-Brown
Emile Durkheim
23. Holistic study of humanity.
Agriculture
Anthropology
Upper Paleo period
Paleolithic period
24. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Agriculture
3 types of excavation
Cultural Anthropology
Aztec indians
25. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Middle east farming
Band
Unit of Kinship
Agriculture
26. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Rite of passage
prosimians
culture
Policy Research
27. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Genpuku
Genetic drift
Generalized Reciprocity
Modernization
28. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Gens
Archaeology
Stratigraphy
Ideal culture
29. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Birth of Anthropology
Radcliffe-Brown
Cognatic Descent
Totem
30. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Mauss
Austrailia indians
Reciprocity
Warlike people
31. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Chromosome
Electromagnetic prospecting
New World monkeys
Diffusion
32. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
Superposition
Poy Tang Lon
Balanced Reciprocity
33. 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.
Catal Huyak
Egypt
Negative Reciprocity
Mythology
34. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Neolithic Period
Phratry
Production
WG Rivers
35. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
KhoiKhoi
pastoralism
Animism
Bronze Age
36. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
culture
Linguistics
Unilineal Descent
37. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Cultivation
Levirate
Allele frequency
Aztec indians
38. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Market Exchange
Petrie
Africa
Bands & Tribes
39. 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.
Natural selection
Civilization
classical archaeology
New World monkeys
40. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Tributary Production
Intervention Anthropology
Technology development research
Superposition
41. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
old world monkeys
platyrrhini
Leakey family
Tribe
42. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Unit of Kinship
Phases of rituals
Central American indians
Australopithecus
43. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Egypt
Condensed Symbol
Nitrogenous Bases
Cultural Resource Assessment
44. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Central American indians
Middle east farming
Mayan indians
Archaeology
45. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Tribe
Formal Economics
James George Frazer
Industrialization
46. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Dokimasi
Assyrians
Egyptian diffusion
exogamy
47. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Egyptian diffusion
Africa
Superposition
Nistri periscope
48. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Ethnology
Natural selection
Neolithic Technology
Functionalism
49. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Unit of Kinship
Leakey family
Phonology
American farming
50. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
sharp edges
Ralph Lynton
Clan
Social Class Manifestation