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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Levirate
Syntax
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Neolithic Period
2. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Homo Erectus
Nuclear Family
Status
Diffusion
3. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Savagery
Birth of Anthropology
Religion
Petrie
4. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Survival
Linguistics
Totem
Monarchy
5. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Civilization
Cultural Ecology
Warlike people
gene flow
6. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Olduvai Gorge
Kluckhohn
Universalities
Excavation
7. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Superposition
Universalities
Mayan indians
Cultivation
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)
3 types of excavation
Assyrians
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Morphology
9. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Evaluation research
Bands & Tribes
Civilization
Savagery
10. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Lower Paleo Period
Poy Tang Lon
Migration of Erectus
Margaret Mead
11. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Semantics
Olduvai Gorge
Redistribution
Stratigraphy
12. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
homonoids
Sondages
Status
Asian farming
13. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Gens
EB Tylor
Pragmatics
Ziggurat
14. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Gene migration
Homonids
McLennan
Ethnology
15. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Substantive Economics
Phonetics
Emic perspective
16. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
homonoids
Magnetic prospecting
Pragmatics
Emic perspective
17. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Genetic drift
Petrie
Egyptian diffusion
War
18. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Alternatives
Hittites
Cultural Evolution
Geosphere
19. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Excavation
Structuralism
Mesolithic Period
Kinship
20. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Evaluation research
American farming
chimpanzee
Ethnography
21. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Hunter/Gatherers
James George Frazer
Animal domestication
Intervention Anthropology
22. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
African Economic Organization
Structural-functional
Levi-Strauss
23. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Taboo
Monogamy
State
Evaluation research
24. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
platyrrhini
Savagery
Middle Paleo Period
25. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Monogamy
Family of orientation
Modernization
homonoids
26. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Hittites
Sumerians
Writing
27. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Hammurabi
Moieties
Cargo Cult
Chromosome
28. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Electromagnetic prospecting
Leakey family
Phonology
Elsie Parsons
29. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Genotype
endogamy
primates
classical archaeology
30. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Geosphere
Diffusion
Cultural Evolution
endogamy
31. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Bands & Tribes
Levi-Strauss
Cargo Cult
Tributary Production
32. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
Feudal System
Moieties
Chromosome
prosimians
33. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
husbandry
phenotype
Writing
American farming
34. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Kindred
Petrie
Levi-Strauss
Nuclear Family
35. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Semantics
Class
American farming
36. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic
Archaeology
European farming
Ethnography
Feudal System
37. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Ideal culture
Geerts
Family of orientation
Yanomamo Feasting
38. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
James George Frazer
Olduvai Gorge
Excavation
Qualitative Research
39. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Barbarism
platyrrhini
babylonians
Homonids
40. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
Hittites
Monarchy
Schliemann
41. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Technology development research
Individual Peculiarities
Gene migration
Catal Huyak
42. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Cargo Cult
Egyptology
Production
Radcliffe-Brown
43. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Non-warlike people
Anthropometry
Negative Reciprocity
Homo Habilis
44. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.
Mayan indians
Natural selection
African Economic Organization
Technology development research
45. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Schliemann
Cargo Cult
Agriculture
Family of procreation
46. Shorthand - Morse Code
War
carbon-14 dating
Condensed Symbol
Cargo Cult
47. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
endogamy
Phratry
radiometric dating
Condensed Symbol
48. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Hebrews
Gene pool
Middle Paleo Period
Ziggurat
49. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Polygamy
Morphology
Rite of passage
Genetic drift
50. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
James George Frazer
Electromagnetic prospecting
Balanced Reciprocity
phenotype