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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Gens
Hittites
phenotype
Qualitative Research
2. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Sondages
Reciprocity
Market Exchange
gene flow
3. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Mesolithic Period
Substantive Economics
Genpuku
Phonology
4. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Kroeber
3 types of excavation
McLennan
Anthropometry
5. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Java Man
Cross-cousins
Neolithic Technology
Agriculture
6. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
polyandry
Policy Research
Genotype
homonoids
7. 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
Electromagnetic prospecting
Neanderthals
Matrilineal Descent
Armchair Anthropologists
8. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Redistribution
Levi-Strauss
Stratigraphy
Mary Douglas Leakey
9. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Geosphere
Social Class Manifestation
American farming
Horticulture
10. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Condensed Symbol
Cro-Magnon
State
mana
11. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Sapir-Whorf
Elsie Parsons
Hammurabi
Ritual
12. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Aztec indians
Geerts
War
Cargo Cult
13. Traces back to ONE person
Social Darwinism
Excavation
Lineage
McLennan
14. Civilization to invent 'zero'
African Economic Organization
Genotypic Variations
Syntax
babylonians
15. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Crossing over
Bands & Tribes
Survival
Technology development research
16. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Aztec indians
sharp edges
exogamy
Potlatch
17. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Horticulture
Etic perspective
International Development
Cultural Resource Assessment
18. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Egypt
Balanced Reciprocity
Emile Durkheim
Nistri periscope
19. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Semantics
Shaman
Nitrogenous Bases
gene flow
20. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Egyptology
Allele
culture
Electromagnetic prospecting
21. 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)
Malinowski
Sanction
Band
Conspicuous Consumption
22. 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.
Negative Reciprocity
Real Culture
Genetic drift
Redistribution
23. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Java Man
African Economic Organization
Market Exchange
Social Darwinism
24. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Ralph Lynton
KhoiKhoi
Cro-Magnon
Cultural Resource Assessment
25. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Hunter/Gatherers
phenotype
Mutation
Culture
26. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Africa
Dead Sea scrolls
Geosphere
Gene
27. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Applied Anthropology
Condensed Symbol
Cargo Cult
mana
28. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Cargo Cult
Nitrogenous Bases
Negative Reciprocity
primates
29. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Legitimacy
Neanderthals
Homonids
Margaret Mead
30. 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
Neolithic Technology
Modernization
Homonids
Structuralism
31. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Linguistics
Bronze Age
Egyptian diffusion
Phonetics
32. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Condensed Symbol
Kindred
Syntax
radiometric dating
33. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Legitimacy
Substantive Economics
Archaeology
Cargo Cult
34. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Genotype
Leakey family
Petrie
Yanomamo Feasting
35. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Referencial Symbol
Java Man
Semantics
New World monkeys
36. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Geerts
Revitalization
Functionalism
primates
37. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Cultivation
WG Rivers
Allele
Sanction
38. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Neolithic Period
Family of procreation
Non-warlike people
Asian farming
39. 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)
chimpanzee
Tribe
Radcliffe-Brown
Social Darwinism
40. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
husbandry
Petrie
State
Egypt
41. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Natural selection
Central American indians
Fieldwork
Intervention Anthropology
42. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Cargo Cult
endogamy
Polygamy
Superposition
43. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
primates
Cultural Ecology
Nuclear Family
DNA
44. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Nuclear Family
Dokimasi
Social practices
Franz Boas
45. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Feudal System
Schliemann
radiometric dating
Mutagen
46. 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
Fieldwork
Middle Paleo Period
Peking Man
Cargo Cult
47. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Culture
Taboo
Ziggurat
Australopithecus
48. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
International Development
perforated edges
Excavation
Theory of organic evolution
49. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Ethnocentrism
Divorce
Archaeology
Kindred
50. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Gens
Sumerians
Morphology
Production