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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Tribe
Mayan indians
gene flow
Genpuku
2. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
McLennan
Cargo Cult
Structuralism
Kroeber
3. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Hammurabi
Religion
Sanction
Anthropology
4. 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
platyrrhini
Substantive Economics
Electromagnetic prospecting
Natural selection
5. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Weber
Caste
Cultural relativism
Radcliffe-Brown
6. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Religion
Animism
mana
Phratry
7. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Animism
New World monkeys
Java Man
Yanomamo
8. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
International Development
3 types of excavation
Functionalism
Leakey family
9. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Electromagnetic prospecting
Horticulture
Absolute time
Middle east farming
10. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Catal Huyak
Nistri periscope
Anthropometry
Mutagen
11. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Cross-cousins
WG Rivers
Anthropoids
Cultural Anthropology
12. 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
Animism
Neanderthals
Kinship
Industrialization
13. 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
Ideal culture
Hebrews
Formal Economics
radiometric dating
14. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Cultural Resource Assessment
Emic perspective
Neolithic Period
North American Indians
15. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Gene migration
Hunter/Gatherers
Culture
Mayan indians
16. Invented smelting of iron
babylonians
Hittites
Mutation
Lower Paleo Period
17. 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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18. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Phonetics
old world monkeys
Kluckhohn
Animal domestication
19. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Myth
Market Exchange
Diffusion
Migration of Erectus
20. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Social Darwinism
Genotype
Ziggurat
Emic perspective
21. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Levi-Strauss
Central American indians
Petrie
Survival
22. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Australopithecus
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Policy Research
Geerts
23. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
Superposition
International Development
Moieties
24. Family that raised you
Diffusion
Feudal System
Divorce
Family of orientation
25. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Geerts
Reciprocity
Leakey family
Cultural Anthropology
26. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Noosphere
Unit of Kinship
Polygamy
Mendel's second principle of genetics
27. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Natural selection
Linguistics
Structural-functional
Elsie Parsons
28. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Family of procreation
KhoiKhoi
exogamy
Bronze Age
29. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Phonetics
Adaptation
Levi-Strauss
Malinowski
30. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Middle east farming
Morphology
Pragmatics
Asian farming
31. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Middle Paleo Period
perforated edges
Real Culture
Modernization
32. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Individual Peculiarities
Polygamy
polished stone
Animal domestication
33. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
Gene
Kluckhohn
Egyptian diffusion
34. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
EB Tylor
Nistri periscope
Mutagen
Universalities
35. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Relative time
Homo Erectus
Ziggurat
culture
36. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Pacific indians
Monarchy
Gene pool
Modernization
37. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Bronze Age
Pacific indians
New World monkeys
Hunter/Gatherers
38. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Ethnography
Peking Man
Sumerians
39. 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)
Polygamy
Allele frequency
Malinowski
Anthropoids
40. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
chimpanzee
Religion
Electromagnetic prospecting
Kinship
41. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Qualitative Research
Java Man
Crossing over
Monarchy
42. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
Sanction
Middle Paleo Period
Social Class Manifestation
43. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
3 types of excavation
Genotypic Variations
Ziggurat
Catal Huyak
44. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Hittites
Anthropoids
Myth
Cross-cousins
45. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Civilization
Morphology
Emile Durkheim
Bands & Tribes
46. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Mythology
Archaeology
Savagery
old world monkeys
47. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Cultivation
culture
Morphology
Adaptation
48. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Social practices
Monogamy
Stimulus Diffusion
Balanced Reciprocity
49. (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
Structural-functional
James George Frazer
Mesolithic Period
Neanderthals
50. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Mauss
Unilineal Descent
Cognatic Descent
Chiefdom