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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Spread of something from one group to another
Diffusion
endogamy
Structuralism
Pacific indians
2. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Etic perspective
DNA
War
Generalized Reciprocity
3. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
polished stone
Generalized Reciprocity
Quantitative Research
Sondages
4. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Real Culture
South American indians
Assyrians
Central American indians
5. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Kinship
Cultural Resource Assessment
Levy-Bruhl
Dating methods
6. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Industrialization
Monogamy
Alternatives
Divorce
7. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Central American indians
Genetic drift
Phonetics
Bands & Tribes
8. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
radiometric dating
Adaptation
endogamy
9. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Leakey family
Religion
sharp edges
Benedict
10. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
endogamy
Phases of rituals
Genotype
Electromagnetic prospecting
11. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Caste
Cultural relativism
South American indians
DNA
12. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Homonids
exogamy
Neolithic Period
Schliemann
13. 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.
Real Culture
Qualitative Research
Civilization
Animal domestication
14. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Agriculture
Status
Electromagnetic prospecting
Mendelian population
15. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Real Culture
Excavation
Social practices
Condensed Symbol
16. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Anthropology
Quantitative Research
Band
Social impact assessment
17. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Family of procreation
Emile Durkheim
old world monkeys
Aztec indians
18. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Matrilineal Descent
Monogamy
chimpanzee
Nistri periscope
19. 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.
Birth of Anthropology
Qualitative Research
State
Weber
20. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
Leakey family
War
Asian farming
Natural selection
21. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Cultural Anthropology
Structural-functional
EB Tylor
Mythology
22. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Mythology
Archaeology
Geerts
Ethnology
23. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Social Darwinism
Homonids
3 types of excavation
Status
24. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Excavation
Hammurabi
Cultural Resource Assessment
25. 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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26. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Generalized Reciprocity
Hammurabi
Allele frequency
27. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Matrilineal Descent
Lineage
Superposition
classical archaeology
28. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Emic perspective
Kinship
Homo Erectus
Elsie Parsons
29. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
primates
Migration of Erectus
Generalized Reciprocity
Benedict
30. Ways to date artifacts
Totem
Dating methods
Nuclear Family
Biosphere
31. (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
Allele
Cargo Cult
Mesolithic Period
Levirate
32. 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
Anthropoids
Kinship
Class
Potlatch
33. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Agriculture
Mauss
Catal Huyak
Social Darwinism
34. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Bands & Tribes
polyandry
Formal Economics
Technology development research
35. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Sapir-Whorf
Divorce
Shaman
Diffusion
36. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Social impact assessment
Potlatch
Allele
Biosphere
37. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Cargo Cult
Gens
Nistri periscope
38. 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
carbon-14 dating
Substantive Economics
Functionalism
Applied Anthropology
39. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Structuralism
Cultural Anthropology
Peking Man
Chiefdom
40. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Poy Tang Lon
Policy Research
Mary Douglas Leakey
Agriculture
41. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Levy-Bruhl
Leakey family
prosimians
Pragmatics
42. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Phratry
Excavation
Phonology
Directed Cultural Change
43. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Archaeology
Pragmatics
Sondages
Feudal System
44. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
Polygamy
Genetic Recombination
Class
45. 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
Poy Tang Lon
Lineage
Social Darwinism
Neanderthals
46. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Phratry
Africa
Austrailia indians
primates
47. 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
Band
Benedict
Peking Man
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
48. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Cargo Cult
Dead Sea scrolls
Lineage
International Development
49. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Semantics
North American Indians
Mythology
Social impact assessment
50. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Warlike people
Absolute time
Cultural Anthropology
Egyptian diffusion