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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Bronze Age
Unit of Kinship
Archaeology
Geosphere
2. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.
chimpanzee
Nuclear Family
State
Linguistics
3. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Generalized Reciprocity
Homo Erectus
Kinship
Status
4. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Cultural Resource Assessment
Symbol
Nuclear Family
5. 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
Market Exchange
Civilization
Writing
6. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Ziggurat
chimpanzee
Mauss
Structuralism
7. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Ethnography
Specialities
Emile Durkheim
WG Rivers
8. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Family of orientation
Cross-cousins
Reciprocity
Gene pool
9. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Superposition
Central American indians
Poy Tang Lon
10. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Genotype
Petrie
Africa
North American Indians
11. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
Syntax
Writing
Status
12. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Magnetic prospecting
prosimians
Mary Douglas Leakey
Levy-Bruhl
13. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Feudal System
European farming
Cultural relativism
Cultural Ecology
14. 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
Ethnocentrism
Intervention Anthropology
Horticulture
15. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Non-warlike people
Sumerians
Yanomamo Feasting
Physical Anthropology
16. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Status
Excavation
Lower Paleo Period
Geerts
17. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Generalized Reciprocity
Moieties
Sondages
Caste
18. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
Ethnology
prosimians
primates
19. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Matrilineal Descent
Mayan indians
Dead Sea scrolls
Legitimacy
20. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Technology development research
War
Neolithic Technology
Clan
21. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
radiometric dating
Cultural Anthropology
Poy Tang Lon
Allele
22. 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
Social Darwinism
Hittites
Potlatch
Elsie Parsons
23. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
Tribe
Cultural Resource Assessment
Chromosome
European farming
24. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Status
Quantitative Research
Shaman
Monarchy
25. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
homonoids
Gene
mana
Anthropology
26. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Warlike people
Morphology
Australopithecus
Animal domestication
27. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Levirate
Egypt
Social Class Manifestation
classical archaeology
28. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
Band
sharp edges
Referencial Symbol
29. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
War
James George Frazer
Unilineal Descent
Conspicuous Consumption
30. Determining the success of a project
Structuralism
Dokimasi
Evaluation research
Diffusion
31. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Applied Anthropology
Policy Research
Survival
Totem
32. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Animal domestication
Geosphere
Geophysical prospecting
Hebrews
33. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
endogamy
African Economic Organization
Revitalization
International Development
34. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
KhoiKhoi
Ethnology
Revitalization
Kluckhohn
35. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
New World monkeys
Monogamy
Rite of passage
Semantics
36. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Egyptology
Mendelian population
Ralph Lynton
Kluckhohn
37. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Cultural Evolution
Polygamy
Ethnology
Bronze Age
38. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Quinceanera
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Family of orientation
Referencial Symbol
39. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Emile Durkheim
Levy-Bruhl
Cargo Cult
Emic perspective
40. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Migration of Erectus
phenotype
Radcliffe-Brown
41. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Mutagen
Cognatic Descent
Genetic drift
Moieties
42. Thinkers: linguistics
Levi-Strauss
Generalized Reciprocity
Neolithic Period
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
43. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Family of procreation
Sanction
old world monkeys
Chiefdom
44. 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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45. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Geerts
Totem
Chromosome
Redistribution
46. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
primates
Industrialization
prosimians
Semantics
47. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Cultural Evolution
Social impact assessment
Moieties
Mesopotamia
48. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Sumerians
Franz Boas
Neolithic Period
Redistribution
49. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Peking Man
Franz Boas
Cargo Cult
Stimulus Diffusion
50. 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.
Dead Sea scrolls
Armchair Anthropologists
Non-warlike people
Reciprocity