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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Malinowski
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Affinal kin
Barbarism
2. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Ethnocentrism
phenotype
Birth of Anthropology
Myth
3. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
Agriculture
Geophysical prospecting
Ethnology
4. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Cultural Evolution
Catal Huyak
Writing
Social practices
5. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Relative time
Upper Paleo period
EB Tylor
Greeks
6. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
husbandry
Cargo Cult
Ritual
Structuralism
7. Shorthand - Morse Code
radiometric dating
Condensed Symbol
Linguistics
Family of procreation
8. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Mesopotamia
Weber
Lower Paleo Period
Monogamy
9. 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
State
babylonians
Myth
Neanderthals
10. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Neolithic Technology
Quantitative Research
Negative Reciprocity
Levirate
11. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
EB Tylor
Qualitative Research
Polygamy
Dating methods
12. (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
Agriculture
Sondages
Homo Habilis
Mesolithic Period
13. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Status
Africa
Assyrians
Feudal System
14. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Technology development research
Superposition
Linguistics
Generalized Reciprocity
15. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Family of procreation
Sumerians
Monogamy
Paleolithic period
16. 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
Levy-Bruhl
Peking Man
Class
Geosphere
17. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Status
Armchair Anthropologists
Peking Man
Substantive Economics
18. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Industrialization
Cross-cousins
DNA
Noosphere
19. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Mauss
Mesopotamia
pastoralism
Adaptation
20. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
McLennan
KhoiKhoi
Nuclear Family
classical archaeology
21. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Excavation
classical archaeology
Homo Erectus
Allele frequency
22. Relatives through marriage
Diffusion
exogamy
Affinal kin
Structural-functional
23. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Writing
Africa
Social impact assessment
24. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Excavation
Mutagen
Redistribution
Phonetics
25. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Kluckhohn
husbandry
Cargo Cult
Emile Durkheim
26. 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
Mesopotamia
Monogamy
Middle Paleo Period
27. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Noosphere
Monarchy
Birth of Anthropology
Policy Research
28. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Writing
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Paleolithic period
Individual Peculiarities
29. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
War
Linguistics
Paleolithic period
Warlike people
30. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Cognatic Descent
Morphology
Nitrogenous Bases
WG Rivers
31. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Intervention Anthropology
Ethnocentrism
Chiefdom
Functionalism
32. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Cultural Ecology
Gens
Formal Economics
Genotypic Variations
33. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Assyrians
Phratry
Levy-Bruhl
Elsie Parsons
34. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
McLennan
Diffusion
War
Divorce
35. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Mauss
Cultural Resource Assessment
Barbarism
Chromosome
36. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Java Man
Physical Anthropology
Cross-cousins
European farming
37. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
Nuclear Family
Allele frequency
Sondages
38. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Ralph Lynton
Schliemann
Weber
Mutation
39. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
James George Frazer
Structuralism
Quinceanera
Ethnology
40. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Taboo
chimpanzee
Emic perspective
Technology development research
41. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Generalized Reciprocity
McLennan
Referencial Symbol
Quantitative Research
42. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Conspicuous Consumption
Morphology
Cultivation
Cultural Ecology
43. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Africa
Genetic Recombination
Kinship
Geophysical prospecting
44. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
prehistoric archaeology
Leakey family
Magnetic prospecting
gene flow
45. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Kroeber
Cultural relativism
Ideal culture
Quinceanera
46. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Anthropoids
Production
Fieldwork
Rite of passage
47. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
prosimians
sharp edges
Warlike people
Mythology
48. 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)
Assyrians
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Leakey family
Mary Douglas Leakey
49. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Semantics
Conspicuous Consumption
Social Class Manifestation
Biosphere
50. 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'
Monogamy
Homo Habilis
Morphology
Feudal System