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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Morphology
Cultivation
Elsie Parsons
2. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Writing
Central American indians
Asian farming
old world monkeys
3. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
pastoralism
KhoiKhoi
Gene pool
Condensed Symbol
4. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Olduvai Gorge
Agriculture
Barbarism
Pragmatics
5. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Nistri periscope
EB Tylor
Diffusion
Mayan indians
6. Relatives through marriage
New World monkeys
Central American indians
Affinal kin
Cro-Magnon
7. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Phases of rituals
Asian farming
Symbol
Hammurabi
8. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Peking Man
Modernization
Social practices
Rite of passage
9. (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
South American indians
Barbarism
Hunter/Gatherers
Divorce
10. 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
Referencial Symbol
Substantive Economics
Margaret Mead
Excavation
11. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Genetic drift
Policy Research
Etic perspective
Status
12. 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.
Mesopotamia
carbon-14 dating
Neanderthals
Armchair Anthropologists
13. Invented smelting of iron
Ethnography
Band
Hittites
classical archaeology
14. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Unilineal Descent
Clan
Generalized Reciprocity
15. 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
American farming
Potlatch
Mary Douglas Leakey
16. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Cargo Cult
Nuclear Family
Functionalism
Conspicuous Consumption
17. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Nitrogenous Bases
Levirate
Monogamy
Balanced Reciprocity
18. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Policy Research
Aztec indians
gene flow
Bands & Tribes
19. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Tribe
radiometric dating
Genotypic Variations
perforated edges
20. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Qualitative Research
Neolithic Technology
Real Culture
Family of procreation
21. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Homonids
Anthropometry
Cognatic Descent
Cultural Resource Assessment
22. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Technology development research
Syntax
Unilineal Descent
Sapir-Whorf
23. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Chiefdom
Tribe
Evaluation research
24. Spread of something from one group to another
Diffusion
Margaret Mead
Family of orientation
Cargo Cult
25. 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
Peking Man
Dating methods
Generalized Reciprocity
Genpuku
26. <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
Kinship
Schliemann
Upper Paleo period
Kluckhohn
27. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Technology development research
Morphology
Cultural Ecology
28. (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
Writing
Animism
Sondages
Generalized Reciprocity
29. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Middle east farming
husbandry
Mary Douglas Leakey
Mythology
30. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
culture
Symbol
Cargo Cult
Bronze Age
31. 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
Syntax
Homonids
Potlatch
Cultural Ecology
32. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Morphology
Migration of Erectus
Hammurabi
Generalized Reciprocity
33. 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..
DNA
Dead Sea scrolls
Pacific indians
Malinowski
34. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Dead Sea scrolls
Hebrews
Poy Tang Lon
Status
35. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
pastoralism
Divorce
Nistri periscope
Kluckhohn
36. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Social Darwinism
Dokimasi
Kinship
Band
37. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Industrialization
Monarchy
Chiefdom
Mendelian population
38. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Mutation
Middle east farming
Linguistics
Homonids
39. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Theory of organic evolution
Nistri periscope
Cultural relativism
Geosphere
40. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Australopithecus
War
Moieties
DNA
41. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Nuclear Family
phenotype
Qualitative Research
Anthropoids
42. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Cultural Evolution
Magnetic prospecting
War
43. Traces back to ONE person
Austrailia indians
McLennan
Lineage
Cross-cousins
44. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Austrailia indians
Peking Man
Conspicuous Consumption
KhoiKhoi
45. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Directed Cultural Change
Genetic Recombination
Noosphere
Yanomamo Feasting
46. Family that raised you
Dating methods
Levirate
Family of orientation
Poy Tang Lon
47. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Structuralism
Birth of Anthropology
Radcliffe-Brown
Phases of rituals
48. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Shaman
European farming
WG Rivers
Theory of organic evolution
49. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Pragmatics
KhoiKhoi
polyandry
Physical Anthropology
50. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
mana
Structuralism
Quantitative Research
Nitrogenous Bases