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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Central American indians
Magnetic prospecting
platyrrhini
2. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Morphology
Armchair Anthropologists
Individual Peculiarities
Cultural Anthropology
3. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Tributary Production
Catal Huyak
Chiefdom
4. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
pastoralism
Assyrians
classical archaeology
Electromagnetic prospecting
5. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Animal domestication
Kroeber
mana
Cargo Cult
6. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
War
Egyptology
Universalities
Animal domestication
7. Spread of something from one group to another
Cargo Cult
Kinship
Diffusion
Anthropology
8. 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'
Intervention Anthropology
Homo Habilis
Clan
Homo Erectus
9. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
polished stone
Directed Cultural Change
Revitalization
sharp edges
10. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Ethnography
Hittites
Archaeology
11. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Anthropology
Sanction
Electromagnetic prospecting
Negative Reciprocity
12. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Negative Reciprocity
Neolithic Technology
Ideal culture
Mythology
13. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
phenotype
Quantitative Research
gene flow
Gene migration
14. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
State
James George Frazer
Chromosome
Yanomamo
15. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Balanced Reciprocity
Nitrogenous Bases
culture
Social practices
16. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Savagery
Fieldwork
Paleolithic period
James George Frazer
17. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Weber
Egyptian diffusion
Status
Nuclear Family
18. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
State
Java Man
Ziggurat
Levi-Strauss
19. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Migration of Erectus
Taboo
Mary Douglas Leakey
20. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Negative Reciprocity
Natural selection
Schliemann
Magnetic prospecting
21. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
Mayan indians
Cross-cousins
Dokimasi
22. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Olduvai Gorge
Cargo Cult
Levirate
African Economic Organization
23. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Pragmatics
Polygamy
Petrie
Ziggurat
24. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
Absolute time
Social Darwinism
Horticulture
25. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Linguistics
Birth of Anthropology
Kluckhohn
Noosphere
26. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Mutagen
Legitimacy
Social impact assessment
Status
27. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
James George Frazer
Superposition
Cargo Cult
Status
28. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Theory of organic evolution
Monarchy
homonoids
Clan
29. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
State
KhoiKhoi
Symbol
30. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Sumerians
Morphology
Real Culture
Technology development research
31. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Specialities
Moieties
primates
Taboo
32. 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
Animal domestication
Nistri periscope
Middle east farming
Individual Peculiarities
33. Invented smelting of iron
Peking Man
Hittites
Universalities
Biosphere
34. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Biosphere
Social impact assessment
chimpanzee
Symbol
35. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Condensed Symbol
Geosphere
Allele
Geerts
36. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Individual Peculiarities
Ethnography
Middle Paleo Period
Semantics
37. Determining the success of a project
endogamy
Upper Paleo period
Evaluation research
Austrailia indians
38. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Semantics
McLennan
Franz Boas
Cargo Cult
39. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Lower Paleo Period
Schliemann
Kindred
Myth
40. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
old world monkeys
South American indians
radiometric dating
Animism
41. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Sumerians
Allele
Cargo Cult
Warlike people
42. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Animal domestication
Hittites
Status
43. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
American farming
Yanomamo Feasting
gene flow
Radcliffe-Brown
44. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Asian farming
State
Anthropoids
Cargo Cult
45. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Symbol
American farming
Family of orientation
Balanced Reciprocity
46. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Structuralism
Conspicuous Consumption
Family of procreation
Survival
47. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Physical Anthropology
Morphology
Margaret Mead
Syntax
48. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
phenotype
Functionalism
Referencial Symbol
Leakey family
49. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Functionalism
Cargo Cult
State
McLennan
50. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Ideal culture
polished stone
Alternatives
endogamy
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