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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
International Development
Yanomamo
Aztec indians
Tributary Production
2. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Agriculture
Status
McLennan
Religion
3. Shorthand - Morse Code
Homonids
Shaman
Kindred
Condensed Symbol
4. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Chiefdom
old world monkeys
platyrrhini
Ziggurat
5. 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'
Homo Habilis
Egyptology
Fieldwork
Writing
6. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Birth of Anthropology
Myth
Mesolithic Period
WG Rivers
7. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
carbon-14 dating
Family of procreation
Aztec indians
South American indians
8. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
American farming
3 types of excavation
Unit of Kinship
Social Darwinism
9. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Malinowski
DNA
Cross-cousins
Polygamy
10. 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)
Ethnocentrism
Assyrians
Structural-functional
Market Exchange
11. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
pastoralism
Social practices
Homo Erectus
Theory of organic evolution
12. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Legitimacy
Modernization
Mary Douglas Leakey
13. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Weber
Superposition
Survival
Monogamy
14. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Hittites
James George Frazer
3 types of excavation
Genotype
15. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Feudal System
Homo Habilis
Aztec indians
Excavation
16. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
Linguistics
Morphology
Hebrews
17. Relatives through marriage
Affinal kin
radiometric dating
Non-warlike people
Etic perspective
18. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Fieldwork
Social Darwinism
endogamy
Middle Paleo Period
19. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Egyptian diffusion
Fieldwork
Nitrogenous Bases
War
20. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Central American indians
Referencial Symbol
Nistri periscope
Phonetics
21. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Stimulus Diffusion
Java Man
Unilineal Descent
Sapir-Whorf
22. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
New World monkeys
Gens
Taboo
Mendelian population
23. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Elsie Parsons
Tributary Production
prosimians
Superposition
24. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Evaluation research
Birth of Anthropology
Cultural Resource Assessment
Hebrews
25. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Kroeber
Upper Paleo period
radiometric dating
Religion
26. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Condensed Symbol
International Development
Petrie
Structuralism
27. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Mutation
Cultivation
Kinship
Catal Huyak
28. Spread of something from one group to another
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Diffusion
Applied Anthropology
Status
29. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Rite of passage
Nuclear Family
Gene pool
Schliemann
30. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Cro-Magnon
Animal domestication
African Economic Organization
Dead Sea scrolls
31. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Chromosome
Intervention Anthropology
Yanomamo
Mendel's second principle of genetics
32. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
Polygamy
Substantive Economics
Animism
Legitimacy
33. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Genotypic Variations
Schliemann
Gene pool
Mendel's third principle of genetics
34. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Technology development research
perforated edges
pastoralism
Animism
35. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Family of orientation
Austrailia indians
Technology development research
Unit of Kinship
36. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
perforated edges
Africa
Homo Erectus
Natural selection
37. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Gene
Divorce
Stimulus Diffusion
Neolithic Period
38. Things all people do the same way (language)
Mythology
Stratigraphy
Nistri periscope
Universalities
39. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Phonetics
North American Indians
Biosphere
Monogamy
40. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Gens
Intervention Anthropology
Conspicuous Consumption
Totem
41. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Bronze Age
Yanomamo Feasting
Ethnology
Potlatch
42. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Poy Tang Lon
Anthropoids
Ideal culture
Shaman
43. (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
Clan
Status
Egypt
Mesolithic Period
44. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Neanderthals
Myth
EB Tylor
Individual Peculiarities
45. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
KhoiKhoi
Linguistics
Stratigraphy
Greeks
46. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Status
Allele frequency
Functionalism
Monogamy
47. 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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48. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Birth of Anthropology
Superposition
Anthropoids
Tribe
49. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
African Economic Organization
Migration of Erectus
Chiefdom
Phonology
50. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Olduvai Gorge
Cultural Evolution
Armchair Anthropologists
Poy Tang Lon