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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Market Exchange
Chiefdom
Ziggurat
Pacific indians
2. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
primates
Crossing over
Feudal System
American farming
3. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Homonids
Genotypic Variations
Social impact assessment
Mayan indians
4. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Yanomamo
War
Cultivation
exogamy
5. 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)
Absolute time
Social Darwinism
Real Culture
Myth
6. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
Yanomamo
Neolithic Technology
Anthropoids
7. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Applied Anthropology
Bands & Tribes
Stratigraphy
Qualitative Research
8. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Kroeber
Middle Paleo Period
European farming
9. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Social impact assessment
Nitrogenous Bases
Relative time
Australopithecus
10. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Cultural Evolution
Phonology
Geerts
Dokimasi
11. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Linguistics
Class
Genpuku
Structuralism
12. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Referencial Symbol
Phonetics
Geosphere
Cargo Cult
13. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Upper Paleo period
Paleolithic period
Elsie Parsons
Referencial Symbol
14. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Myth
Specialities
Policy Research
Adaptation
15. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Petrie
Reciprocity
Poy Tang Lon
Dokimasi
16. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Cross-cousins
Cargo Cult
Middle east farming
platyrrhini
17. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Morphology
Genetic Recombination
Migration of Erectus
Nuclear Family
18. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
James George Frazer
Egyptian diffusion
Hittites
perforated edges
19. 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.
Myth
Civilization
Structuralism
Functionalism
20. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Genotype
Central American indians
Paleolithic period
Redistribution
21. Spread of something from one group to another
Homo Habilis
Schliemann
Polygamy
Diffusion
22. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Petrie
Animism
Totem
Natural selection
23. New family you form when you marry and have children.
James George Frazer
Family of procreation
Java Man
Stratigraphy
24. 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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25. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Genetic Recombination
Greeks
Moieties
Mendel's second principle of genetics
26. 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
Symbol
Etic perspective
Egyptian diffusion
Modernization
27. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mauss
Mendelian population
Reciprocity
Adaptation
28. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Shaman
EB Tylor
Phonology
Lower Paleo Period
29. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
New World monkeys
Ritual
Allele
Hammurabi
30. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
Barbarism
Production
Mendel's second principle of genetics
31. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
South American indians
Cultural Resource Assessment
Cargo Cult
Genotypic Variations
32. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Morphology
Survival
Petrie
Condensed Symbol
33. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Alternatives
Electromagnetic prospecting
Shaman
Yanomamo Feasting
34. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Culture
3 types of excavation
Monogamy
Benedict
35. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Emile Durkheim
husbandry
perforated edges
Band
36. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Levy-Bruhl
Lower Paleo Period
Specialities
Peking Man
37. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Levi-Strauss
polyandry
prosimians
Shaman
38. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Cultural Ecology
Barbarism
Diffusion
Chromosome
39. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'
Non-warlike people
Homo Habilis
Yanomamo Feasting
Mendel's second principle of genetics
40. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Nitrogenous Bases
Structuralism
Band
Class
41. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Cargo Cult
Levirate
Egypt
exogamy
42. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Chiefdom
Unit of Kinship
Assyrians
43. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Egyptology
Generalized Reciprocity
Kluckhohn
Dead Sea scrolls
44. (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)
Cargo Cult
Phases of rituals
Neolithic Period
Noosphere
45. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Excavation
Referencial Symbol
Phonetics
Etic perspective
46. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Ralph Lynton
Technology development research
old world monkeys
Culture
47. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Electromagnetic prospecting
Structuralism
Gene
Yanomamo
48. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Intervention Anthropology
pastoralism
Geosphere
babylonians
49. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Religion
Mendel's first principle of genetics
carbon-14 dating
Alternatives
50. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
South American indians
Cross-cousins
Peking Man
Social impact assessment
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