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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Physical Anthropology
Mutagen
Nuclear Family
Homo Erectus
2. Invented smelting of iron
KhoiKhoi
carbon-14 dating
Technology development research
Hittites
3. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Mythology
Quinceanera
Chiefdom
prosimians
4. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
American farming
Margaret Mead
Hunter/Gatherers
5. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
James George Frazer
Quinceanera
Totem
Egyptology
6. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Kroeber
Shaman
Crossing over
Greeks
7. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Olduvai Gorge
platyrrhini
polished stone
Moieties
8. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Superposition
endogamy
Horticulture
Yanomamo Feasting
9. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Schliemann
Ethnocentrism
Dokimasi
Margaret Mead
10. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Adaptation
Egyptology
Applied Anthropology
Chiefdom
11. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Lower Paleo Period
Technology development research
Geophysical prospecting
Cultural Anthropology
12. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Levy-Bruhl
Ideal culture
Generalized Reciprocity
Potlatch
13. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Substantive Economics
Chromosome
Tributary Production
Ethnology
14. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Yanomamo
Family of procreation
Cargo Cult
Monogamy
15. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Paleolithic period
Cultural Evolution
Genetic Recombination
16. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Matrilineal Descent
Cross-cousins
Chiefdom
Genotypic Variations
17. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Real Culture
Mendel's first principle of genetics
African Economic Organization
Ritual
18. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Mesopotamia
Hittites
Policy Research
Cultural Anthropology
19. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Kindred
Phonology
Mutation
Class
20. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Homo Erectus
Leakey family
Geophysical prospecting
mana
21. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cargo Cult
Genpuku
perforated edges
Social impact assessment
22. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Redistribution
Cognatic Descent
Religion
Paleolithic period
23. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Franz Boas
Absolute time
Unilineal Descent
24. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Cross-cousins
Chiefdom
Geosphere
Nitrogenous Bases
25. 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)
Phonology
Social Darwinism
Social practices
Ideal culture
26. 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.
Civilization
Chiefdom
Geosphere
Nitrogenous Bases
27. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Stimulus Diffusion
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Formal Economics
Emic perspective
28. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Physical Anthropology
Quantitative Research
classical archaeology
Unit of Kinship
29. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Gene migration
Social Class Manifestation
Hebrews
primates
30. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Lineage
Anthropology
Anthropoids
Levy-Bruhl
31. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
Civilization
Tributary Production
Family of procreation
Armchair Anthropologists
32. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Upper Paleo period
Semantics
Stimulus Diffusion
Tribe
33. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
South American indians
Writing
Monogamy
Peking Man
34. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativism
Savagery
Chiefdom
35. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Mutagen
Phonetics
Allele frequency
Caste
36. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
EB Tylor
Magnetic prospecting
Phases of rituals
exogamy
37. 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).
Asian farming
KhoiKhoi
Unit of Kinship
Mayan indians
38. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Geophysical prospecting
Mutagen
Diffusion
Cultural Resource Assessment
39. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Band
State
Directed Cultural Change
Kluckhohn
40. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Mesolithic Period
exogamy
Physical Anthropology
Balanced Reciprocity
41. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Balanced Reciprocity
Poy Tang Lon
Ritual
Lower Paleo Period
42. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
EB Tylor
Survival
James George Frazer
Real Culture
43. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Balanced Reciprocity
phenotype
Neanderthals
Monogamy
44. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Gene migration
Cultural Ecology
Reciprocity
Nitrogenous Bases
45. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Taboo
Geerts
Linguistics
Nitrogenous Bases
46. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
Leakey family
Status
radiometric dating
primates
47. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Evaluation research
Geerts
Production
Social practices
48. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Java Man
culture
Quantitative Research
Anthropometry
49. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Family of orientation
Horticulture
Mutation
prehistoric archaeology
50. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Assyrians
Yanomamo Feasting
Genetic Recombination
Levirate
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