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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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.
Civilization
Family of procreation
Generalized Reciprocity
Upper Paleo period
2. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
old world monkeys
Family of orientation
babylonians
Alternatives
3. 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.
Feudal System
Negative Reciprocity
Ethnography
Mendel's first principle of genetics
4. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Religion
Catal Huyak
American farming
Generalized Reciprocity
5. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Technology development research
Genpuku
Allele
Africa
6. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
mana
Upper Paleo period
Formal Economics
State
7. (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
Redistribution
Physical Anthropology
Animism
Genetic drift
8. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Olduvai Gorge
War
Mythology
New World monkeys
9. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Sapir-Whorf
Cargo Cult
Kindred
prosimians
10. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Noosphere
Petrie
radiometric dating
Homo Erectus
11. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Lower Paleo Period
Functionalism
Clan
12. Thinkers: linguistics
Lineage
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Chromosome
radiometric dating
13. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Potlatch
Cultivation
Cognatic Descent
EB Tylor
14. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Alternatives
Caste
Culture
15. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
American farming
Excavation
Shaman
Genpuku
16. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Technology development research
gene flow
Lower Paleo Period
Bronze Age
17. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Affinal kin
Nitrogenous Bases
African Economic Organization
Hammurabi
18. 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)
Olduvai Gorge
Taboo
Social Darwinism
Neolithic Period
19. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
primates
Kluckhohn
Applied Anthropology
Directed Cultural Change
20. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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21. 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.
Horticulture
Linguistics
Mesolithic Period
Noosphere
22. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Cargo Cult
Neanderthals
Myth
Paleolithic period
23. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Geosphere
Cargo Cult
Substantive Economics
Modernization
24. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
State
culture
gene flow
Quantitative Research
25. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Cultural relativism
Structural-functional
Petrie
Market Exchange
26. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Cultural Ecology
Neolithic Technology
Benedict
Mauss
27. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Yanomamo Feasting
Gene migration
Horticulture
Physical Anthropology
28. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Yanomamo
Asian farming
Electromagnetic prospecting
Ethnography
29. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Clan
Migration of Erectus
Social impact assessment
exogamy
30. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Cargo Cult
Referencial Symbol
Family of procreation
Greeks
31. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
polished stone
Nitrogenous Bases
Linguistics
32. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Relative time
Animism
Nuclear Family
South American indians
33. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Allele frequency
Excavation
Stimulus Diffusion
Animal domestication
34. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Chromosome
DNA
Phases of rituals
Religion
35. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Egyptian diffusion
Africa
Magnetic prospecting
Mutagen
36. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
Morphology
Dead Sea scrolls
Mendel's third principle of genetics
platyrrhini
37. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Levi-Strauss
Class
EB Tylor
Matrilineal Descent
38. 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
Genetic Recombination
Allele frequency
Formal Economics
Migration of Erectus
39. Spread of something from one group to another
Chiefdom
mana
Diffusion
Morphology
40. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Central American indians
Benedict
Pacific indians
Excavation
41. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Egyptology
Revitalization
Agriculture
Nistri periscope
42. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
carbon-14 dating
Phonetics
Kluckhohn
Emile Durkheim
43. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Substantive Economics
Intervention Anthropology
Birth of Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
44. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Genotype
Gene
Genotypic Variations
Caste
45. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Cargo Cult
Kluckhohn
Sondages
Allele frequency
46. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Moieties
Structural-functional
Ralph Lynton
47. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Central American indians
Generalized Reciprocity
Rite of passage
Religion
48. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Phases of rituals
Egyptian diffusion
babylonians
War
49. 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
Substantive Economics
pastoralism
Conspicuous Consumption
Sondages
50. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Yanomamo Feasting
Production
Middle Paleo Period
Negative Reciprocity