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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Homo Erectus
Affinal kin
perforated edges
Sapir-Whorf
2. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Cultivation
Phonetics
Yanomamo Feasting
3. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Cultural Evolution
Cultural relativism
Savagery
Semantics
4. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Kindred
Middle Paleo Period
Sondages
Cultivation
5. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Warlike people
Kindred
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
6. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Margaret Mead
Cargo Cult
Hammurabi
Syntax
7. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
International Development
Levi-Strauss
Gene pool
Caste
8. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Cargo Cult
Nistri periscope
pastoralism
classical archaeology
9. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Pacific indians
Polygamy
Anthropometry
Genotypic Variations
10. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Mutation
Egyptology
Social impact assessment
Relative time
11. Traces back to ONE person
Catal Huyak
Lineage
Etic perspective
Ritual
12. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Emic perspective
Legitimacy
Aztec indians
Weber
13. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Catal Huyak
Upper Paleo period
Family of orientation
mana
14. 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.
Stimulus Diffusion
Levirate
Physical Anthropology
Cargo Cult
15. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
husbandry
Horticulture
Taboo
endogamy
16. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Lineage
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Dating methods
Excavation
17. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Theory of organic evolution
Real Culture
Clan
Survival
18. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Nuclear Family
Linguistics
Adaptation
Cognatic Descent
19. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
EB Tylor
Geosphere
Animism
20. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Social impact assessment
Adaptation
Condensed Symbol
Cultural Anthropology
21. 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
Central American indians
Social Darwinism
Stratigraphy
Peking Man
22. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Leakey family
carbon-14 dating
Genetic Recombination
Mendelian population
23. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Religion
Band
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Agriculture
24. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Mutation
polyandry
Social Class Manifestation
Stratigraphy
25. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Reciprocity
Universalities
Homonids
Fieldwork
26. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Mythology
Cultural Anthropology
Tributary Production
Schliemann
27. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Rite of passage
Cargo Cult
Paleolithic period
Kroeber
28. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Mayan indians
Bands & Tribes
Genetic drift
Negative Reciprocity
29. 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
Genetic drift
Ritual
Pragmatics
Lower Paleo Period
30. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Individual Peculiarities
Mesopotamia
Genotype
Generalized Reciprocity
31. 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.
Aztec indians
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Savagery
Structuralism
32. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
radiometric dating
North American Indians
Malinowski
Rite of passage
33. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Franz Boas
Intervention Anthropology
Alternatives
Cargo Cult
34. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Rite of passage
Mauss
Phases of rituals
35. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Nuclear Family
old world monkeys
Divorce
36. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Class
Malinowski
Generalized Reciprocity
Tributary Production
37. (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
Quantitative Research
Hunter/Gatherers
classical archaeology
mana
38. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Levirate
Agriculture
Syntax
Asian farming
39. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Divorce
Magnetic prospecting
Technology development research
Mutation
40. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Class
pastoralism
platyrrhini
North American Indians
41. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Emic perspective
Hebrews
Cross-cousins
prosimians
42. 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.
Noosphere
Dead Sea scrolls
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Polygamy
43. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
polyandry
Hittites
Substantive Economics
Universalities
44. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
James George Frazer
Birth of Anthropology
Crossing over
perforated edges
45. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Radcliffe-Brown
Cultivation
Cargo Cult
Barbarism
46. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Cargo Cult
Legitimacy
Moieties
Margaret Mead
47. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Clan
EB Tylor
Religion
48. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Status
Feudal System
Bronze Age
culture
49. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Stimulus Diffusion
Policy Research
Greeks
Generalized Reciprocity
50. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Cultural Ecology
South American indians
WG Rivers
radiometric dating