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DSST General Anthropology
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1. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Australopithecus
exogamy
Sumerians
Egypt
2. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cro-Magnon
Cargo Cult
Dating methods
Class
3. 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
Culture
pastoralism
Ethnography
Neanderthals
4. 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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5. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
African Economic Organization
Noosphere
Gene pool
Family of orientation
6. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Poy Tang Lon
Anthropoids
sharp edges
Mesopotamia
7. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Civilization
Bronze Age
Diffusion
Hebrews
8. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Gene migration
Applied Anthropology
Genpuku
State
9. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Noosphere
Catal Huyak
Mesolithic Period
10. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
polyandry
Ziggurat
Semantics
Anthropology
11. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Unilineal Descent
classical archaeology
Mayan indians
12. Relatives through marriage
Affinal kin
Cultural Ecology
Malinowski
Horticulture
13. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Homo Habilis
Cultural Evolution
DNA
Anthropology
14. 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.
Barbarism
Poy Tang Lon
State
Franz Boas
15. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Cro-Magnon
Alternatives
Condensed Symbol
Mythology
16. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotype
North American Indians
Quantitative Research
Chiefdom
17. 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'
Bands & Tribes
Homo Habilis
Ethnocentrism
Status
18. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Upper Paleo period
International Development
Substantive Economics
Mendel's third principle of genetics
19. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Geophysical prospecting
Non-warlike people
Clan
American farming
20. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Redistribution
Chromosome
Margaret Mead
Relative time
21. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Unit of Kinship
Writing
Class
Lineage
22. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Nitrogenous Bases
Intervention Anthropology
Sanction
Chiefdom
23. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
pastoralism
Sapir-Whorf
Barbarism
Biosphere
24. Things all people do the same way (language)
Archaeology
Universalities
Etic perspective
Social practices
25. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Sondages
Ethnology
Warlike people
Hunter/Gatherers
26. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Australopithecus
Neolithic Technology
Genetic Recombination
Superposition
27. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Petrie
Cultural Anthropology
Savagery
28. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
WG Rivers
Social Class Manifestation
Allele
mana
29. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
Ritual
Emic perspective
phenotype
30. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Social impact assessment
Chromosome
Genetic drift
Savagery
31. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Nistri periscope
Alternatives
Linguistics
Franz Boas
32. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
3 types of excavation
Religion
culture
Individual Peculiarities
33. 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
Homo Habilis
Tribe
Stratigraphy
Class
34. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Mythology
polyandry
Horticulture
Radcliffe-Brown
35. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Yanomamo
Unilineal Descent
Quinceanera
Levirate
36. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
New World monkeys
Peking Man
Horticulture
Status
37. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Migration of Erectus
homonoids
Ethnocentrism
European farming
38. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Mary Douglas Leakey
Ethnocentrism
Neolithic Period
Individual Peculiarities
39. (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
Animism
African Economic Organization
Band
Syntax
40. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
African Economic Organization
Mutagen
Catal Huyak
Homonids
41. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Band
Symbol
Writing
Absolute time
42. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
State
McLennan
Cultivation
Kindred
43. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Theory of organic evolution
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Phonetics
Homonids
44. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Emile Durkheim
Hittites
Status
Nuclear Family
45. Ways to date artifacts
Cargo Cult
Dating methods
State
Migration of Erectus
46. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Revitalization
Moieties
Greeks
Fieldwork
47. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Mythology
Excavation
Asian farming
Physical Anthropology
48. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
gene flow
Relative time
Cognatic Descent
prosimians
49. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Levi-Strauss
Cro-Magnon
Semantics
Totem
50. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Chiefdom
Migration of Erectus
Taboo
Cross-cousins