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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Polygamy
Mesolithic Period
Bronze Age
South American indians
2. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Elsie Parsons
Horticulture
Emic perspective
Upper Paleo period
3. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Ethnocentrism
Catal Huyak
Legitimacy
Cargo Cult
4. Family that raised you
War
Gene
Family of orientation
Dokimasi
5. 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
Horticulture
Weber
Redistribution
Symbol
6. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Hittites
Anthropoids
Gene
Matrilineal Descent
7. Shorthand - Morse Code
Armchair Anthropologists
Mesopotamia
Poy Tang Lon
Condensed Symbol
8. 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)
Elsie Parsons
Franz Boas
Absolute time
Assyrians
9. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Cro-Magnon
Cargo Cult
Poy Tang Lon
Negative Reciprocity
10. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Mutation
Sapir-Whorf
Family of orientation
11. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Animism
Monogamy
Semantics
Ethnocentrism
12. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Linguistics
Central American indians
gene flow
Phonology
13. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
Genotypic Variations
exogamy
Animal domestication
14. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Divorce
Franz Boas
Kinship
15. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Generalized Reciprocity
Natural selection
Egyptology
Structuralism
16. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
Quantitative Research
Specialities
Mendel's third principle of genetics
17. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Cognatic Descent
Polygamy
Universalities
Allele
18. 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
Phratry
3 types of excavation
homonoids
Neanderthals
19. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Dating methods
Conspicuous Consumption
Central American indians
gene flow
20. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
carbon-14 dating
Egyptology
Schliemann
Non-warlike people
21. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
prehistoric archaeology
Applied Anthropology
Balanced Reciprocity
pastoralism
22. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Chromosome
Family of procreation
North American Indians
Mayan indians
23. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
polyandry
Sapir-Whorf
Genetic drift
Africa
24. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Evaluation research
Cultural Anthropology
Dokimasi
phenotype
25. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Savagery
Band
Superposition
Geosphere
26. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Market Exchange
Caste
polyandry
Genotypic Variations
27. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Cognatic Descent
Negative Reciprocity
Genetic Recombination
Natural selection
28. 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'
Superposition
Homo Habilis
Homonids
Chromosome
29. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
War
Polygamy
Hammurabi
Dead Sea scrolls
30. (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)
Real Culture
Neolithic Period
Nitrogenous Bases
Lineage
31. Man marries widow of his dead brother
DNA
Policy Research
Feudal System
Levirate
32. Thinkers: linguistics
Upper Paleo period
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Allele
prosimians
33. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Band
Homo Erectus
Technology development research
Central American indians
34. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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35. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Legitimacy
Yanomamo Feasting
Quinceanera
Nitrogenous Bases
36. 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.
Culture
Noosphere
Cro-Magnon
Egyptology
37. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Egyptology
Condensed Symbol
Sapir-Whorf
Cultural Anthropology
38. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Schliemann
Weber
DNA
Benedict
39. 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.
Non-warlike people
Mesopotamia
Homo Erectus
Armchair Anthropologists
40. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Cross-cousins
Taboo
Potlatch
Mythology
41. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Noosphere
Status
Cargo Cult
Dokimasi
42. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Mythology
New World monkeys
Austrailia indians
Moieties
43. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Genetic drift
Yanomamo Feasting
culture
Biosphere
44. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Symbol
Social impact assessment
Agriculture
Olduvai Gorge
45. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Middle east farming
Family of procreation
Relative time
South American indians
46. Traces back to ONE person
Hammurabi
Africa
Lineage
husbandry
47. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Pragmatics
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Hittites
Franz Boas
48. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Sumerians
Bronze Age
Physical Anthropology
Cultural Resource Assessment
49. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Phratry
Catal Huyak
Unit of Kinship
50. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Modernization
Shaman
Matrilineal Descent
Sondages