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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Sapir-Whorf
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Substantive Economics
Gens
2. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
platyrrhini
Symbol
Animal domestication
Formal Economics
3. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
Monarchy
Redistribution
Adaptation
Dead Sea scrolls
4. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Electromagnetic prospecting
Crossing over
polished stone
James George Frazer
5. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Cultivation
Adaptation
Monarchy
WG Rivers
6. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Religion
Moieties
Olduvai Gorge
Gene
7. 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.
Aztec indians
Noosphere
old world monkeys
Savagery
8. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Genetic drift
Austrailia indians
gene flow
9. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
sharp edges
Archaeology
Potlatch
Religion
10. 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.
Social practices
Cultural Anthropology
Symbol
Civilization
11. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Egypt
Non-warlike people
Anthropoids
Specialities
12. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Chiefdom
Cross-cousins
Myth
Superposition
13. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Social impact assessment
European farming
Migration of Erectus
14. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.
Class
Cultural Ecology
primates
New World monkeys
15. (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)
Elsie Parsons
Specialities
Neolithic Period
Cargo Cult
16. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Greeks
babylonians
Mutagen
Poy Tang Lon
17. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
perforated edges
Generalized Reciprocity
polished stone
Benedict
18. (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
Phratry
Homonids
Hunter/Gatherers
Savagery
19. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Magnetic prospecting
polyandry
Tributary Production
Sumerians
20. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
babylonians
Cultural Resource Assessment
Levi-Strauss
Migration of Erectus
21. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Technology development research
Balanced Reciprocity
Dating methods
Nuclear Family
22. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
KhoiKhoi
Reciprocity
Neolithic Period
Mendel's first principle of genetics
23. 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)
Assyrians
Linguistics
Sanction
Phases of rituals
24. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
old world monkeys
endogamy
Cargo Cult
Schliemann
25. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Shaman
Warlike people
Mary Douglas Leakey
New World monkeys
26. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Genetic Recombination
Ideal culture
Chiefdom
27. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
James George Frazer
Petrie
Diffusion
Totem
28. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Evaluation research
Symbol
Pragmatics
radiometric dating
29. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Unilineal Descent
Social practices
Evaluation research
Shaman
30. 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
European farming
Mayan indians
Negative Reciprocity
old world monkeys
31. Spread of something from one group to another
Diffusion
Pacific indians
Individual Peculiarities
Negative Reciprocity
32. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Redistribution
Excavation
Benedict
Genetic Recombination
33. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Gene pool
Universalities
Neanderthals
Fieldwork
34. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Agriculture
American farming
Middle east farming
Cultivation
35. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Mutation
Referencial Symbol
Formal Economics
Schliemann
36. 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
Homo Erectus
Leakey family
Lower Paleo Period
Barbarism
37. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Revitalization
Morphology
Africa
perforated edges
38. 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.
Diffusion
Crossing over
Natural selection
Petrie
39. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Non-warlike people
Mesolithic Period
Barbarism
Cognatic Descent
40. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Margaret Mead
Ethnocentrism
North American Indians
Status
41. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Barbarism
New World monkeys
Aztec indians
Etic perspective
42. 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.
Dokimasi
exogamy
State
Genetic Recombination
43. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Market Exchange
Levy-Bruhl
Industrialization
chimpanzee
44. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Cognatic Descent
Polygamy
Writing
Pacific indians
45. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cargo Cult
International Development
Stratigraphy
Allele
46. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Cultural Evolution
Quinceanera
Structuralism
Neolithic Period
47. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Negative Reciprocity
War
South American indians
Central American indians
48. 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
Java Man
Peking Man
Applied Anthropology
49. Holistic study of humanity.
Pragmatics
Levi-Strauss
Anthropology
husbandry
50. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Conspicuous Consumption
Elsie Parsons
Cultural Evolution
Homo Erectus
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