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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Tributary Production
Cognatic Descent
Mauss
Quantitative Research
2. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
EB Tylor
Religion
Middle east farming
Chiefdom
3. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Social practices
Chromosome
Religion
4. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Divorce
Cargo Cult
Greeks
5. 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)
Phratry
Cultural relativism
Monogamy
Neolithic Period
6. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
polished stone
Ziggurat
EB Tylor
Cultural relativism
7. 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.
Mythology
Civilization
Sumerians
Etic perspective
8. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Austrailia indians
Ethnography
Magnetic prospecting
primates
9. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Gens
Allele
Fieldwork
Margaret Mead
10. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Kluckhohn
Gene pool
Polygamy
Modernization
11. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Mauss
Kroeber
Archaeology
Cultural Ecology
12. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Universalities
Mythology
Paleolithic period
platyrrhini
13. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Social Class Manifestation
Myth
Sondages
Java Man
14. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Kroeber
Greeks
Structural-functional
Genpuku
15. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Schliemann
Nistri periscope
Syntax
Biosphere
16. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Peking Man
Sumerians
Morphology
Geophysical prospecting
17. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Structuralism
Homo Habilis
James George Frazer
Cargo Cult
18. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Diffusion
Superposition
Monogamy
Yanomamo Feasting
19. 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)
Gene migration
Social Darwinism
South American indians
Ethnocentrism
20. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Tribe
Family of orientation
sharp edges
21. Traces back to ONE person
Applied Anthropology
Lineage
Legitimacy
Mendel's third principle of genetics
22. 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)
Asian farming
Genotype
Malinowski
Peking Man
23. 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
Neanderthals
Malinowski
Genpuku
North American Indians
24. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Condensed Symbol
Hammurabi
Mesopotamia
Chromosome
25. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
3 types of excavation
Physical Anthropology
Taboo
European farming
26. Invented smelting of iron
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Birth of Anthropology
Hittites
Myth
27. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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28. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Taboo
Individual Peculiarities
Moieties
Upper Paleo period
29. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Hebrews
Specialities
Civilization
Monarchy
30. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Genetic Recombination
Gens
Religion
Culture
31. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
James George Frazer
Yanomamo
Asian farming
Absolute time
32. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Horticulture
Ethnocentrism
Tribe
Elsie Parsons
33. 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).
Armchair Anthropologists
Unit of Kinship
Tributary Production
mana
34. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Cro-Magnon
Divorce
Stratigraphy
Lower Paleo Period
35. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Central American indians
Magnetic prospecting
Ritual
36. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Cultural Ecology
Crossing over
Neolithic Technology
Yanomamo
37. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Margaret Mead
Benedict
Structural-functional
Genetic drift
38. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistics
Genetic drift
Sumerians
39. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Modernization
Affinal kin
Revitalization
Upper Paleo period
40. Shorthand - Morse Code
polyandry
Condensed Symbol
Monarchy
Hebrews
41. 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.
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cultural Evolution
Mesopotamia
Clan
42. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Weber
Superposition
Geophysical prospecting
43. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Writing
Moieties
pastoralism
Electromagnetic prospecting
44. 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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45. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Bronze Age
Ethnography
chimpanzee
KhoiKhoi
46. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Mauss
Lower Paleo Period
Moieties
Mythology
47. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Neanderthals
Adaptation
Homo Habilis
Symbol
48. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Stratigraphy
Writing
Electromagnetic prospecting
Morphology
49. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Margaret Mead
Animism
Animal domestication
Genotype
50. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Structural-functional
Egypt
Pacific indians
chimpanzee