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DSST General Anthropology
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1. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Chiefdom
Technology development research
Morphology
2. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Absolute time
Cro-Magnon
Mesopotamia
Structuralism
3. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Cargo Cult
primates
Genotype
Armchair Anthropologists
4. 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
Austrailia indians
African Economic Organization
Emile Durkheim
Class
5. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Genetic Recombination
exogamy
Geosphere
Bronze Age
6. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Homo Habilis
polished stone
Cultivation
Mary Douglas Leakey
7. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Shaman
Malinowski
Unilineal Descent
Kluckhohn
8. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Nuclear Family
Quantitative Research
Electromagnetic prospecting
Formal Economics
9. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Social Darwinism
polyandry
Warlike people
Theory of organic evolution
10. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
old world monkeys
Anthropoids
homonoids
Quantitative Research
11. 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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12. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Kinship
Kindred
Warlike people
Cultural Anthropology
13. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Ritual
Tribe
Production
14. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
perforated edges
Yanomamo Feasting
Agriculture
Religion
15. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Migration of Erectus
homonoids
Survival
Fieldwork
16. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Social impact assessment
Matrilineal Descent
Cultural Resource Assessment
Condensed Symbol
17. (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)
Neolithic Period
Bands & Tribes
Status
Ethnocentrism
18. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
American farming
Hebrews
Chromosome
Theory of organic evolution
19. Ways to date artifacts
Lineage
perforated edges
Dating methods
Monarchy
20. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
Hunter/Gatherers
Emic perspective
endogamy
Totem
21. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
gene flow
Quinceanera
husbandry
Class
22. 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.
Asian farming
State
Fieldwork
Divorce
23. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Gens
Superposition
Culture
Adaptation
24. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Mutation
Anthropometry
classical archaeology
Middle Paleo Period
25. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Greeks
Kroeber
Allele
Genpuku
26. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
McLennan
Lower Paleo Period
Moieties
Margaret Mead
27. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Emile Durkheim
endogamy
Structuralism
Stratigraphy
28. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Catal Huyak
Sanction
Taboo
Hebrews
29. 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
Leakey family
Peking Man
Mutation
Cultural relativism
30. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Gens
Peking Man
Australopithecus
Pacific indians
31. 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.
Dating methods
Hittites
Cro-Magnon
Civilization
32. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Morphology
Balanced Reciprocity
Culture
Industrialization
33. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Cargo Cult
prehistoric archaeology
Linguistics
carbon-14 dating
34. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Clan
Social Darwinism
Directed Cultural Change
Specialities
35. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Mythology
Moieties
Sumerians
International Development
36. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Franz Boas
Elsie Parsons
Austrailia indians
Cultivation
37. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Magnetic prospecting
North American Indians
Birth of Anthropology
Syntax
38. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Homonids
Genotype
Hammurabi
Diffusion
39. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Schliemann
Ziggurat
Physical Anthropology
Class
40. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Chiefdom
Noosphere
Ethnography
War
41. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
James George Frazer
Technology development research
Pragmatics
Directed Cultural Change
42. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Relative time
Magnetic prospecting
radiometric dating
Natural selection
43. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Structural-functional
Technology development research
Functionalism
Mendel's first principle of genetics
44. 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)
old world monkeys
Cargo Cult
Mayan indians
Phratry
45. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
North American Indians
Symbol
Egyptian diffusion
46. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Yanomamo
Applied Anthropology
Adaptation
Genotype
47. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Divorce
Neanderthals
Noosphere
Phases of rituals
48. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Hunter/Gatherers
Birth of Anthropology
Myth
International Development
49. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Cultural Anthropology
Genpuku
Genotypic Variations
50. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Theory of organic evolution
Modernization
Anthropoids
Polygamy