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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Asian farming
Genotypic Variations
Egyptology
Adaptation
2. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Petrie
Yanomamo
Relative time
3. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Culture
Cognatic Descent
European farming
Cross-cousins
4. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Phratry
Culture
homonoids
Catal Huyak
5. 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
Fieldwork
Cargo Cult
Levirate
6. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Fieldwork
Leakey family
Myth
Moieties
7. Spread of something from one group to another
Unilineal Descent
prosimians
Anthropometry
Diffusion
8. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Intervention Anthropology
Genpuku
Peking Man
Egyptology
9. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Hunter/Gatherers
Crossing over
prosimians
pastoralism
10. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Crossing over
Unilineal Descent
Shaman
Radcliffe-Brown
11. 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'
Homo Habilis
Sapir-Whorf
Cross-cousins
Levirate
12. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Market Exchange
primates
chimpanzee
13. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
phenotype
Birth of Anthropology
Australopithecus
14. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Levirate
Agriculture
Mayan indians
Central American indians
15. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Ralph Lynton
Mutation
Myth
New World monkeys
16. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
Specialities
Diffusion
Social impact assessment
17. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Gene
Emile Durkheim
gene flow
Etic perspective
18. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Schliemann
Levi-Strauss
Evaluation research
Mendel's second principle of genetics
19. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Kindred
Social impact assessment
Balanced Reciprocity
Levirate
20. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
phenotype
Catal Huyak
McLennan
Band
21. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Gene
Dating methods
Social practices
22. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Linguistics
Neanderthals
Directed Cultural Change
Alternatives
23. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Cultural Evolution
Status
Stimulus Diffusion
Qualitative Research
24. 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.
Excavation
Qualitative Research
Natural selection
Sapir-Whorf
25. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Caste
Paleolithic period
Greeks
26. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Petrie
Reciprocity
mana
Assyrians
27. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Sapir-Whorf
Horticulture
Substantive Economics
Unit of Kinship
28. <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
Upper Paleo period
War
Theory of organic evolution
Java Man
29. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Poy Tang Lon
Margaret Mead
Ethnography
European farming
30. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Emile Durkheim
Conspicuous Consumption
Genotypic Variations
Gene pool
31. 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
Unilineal Descent
Class
Ethnocentrism
Yanomamo Feasting
32. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Directed Cultural Change
James George Frazer
Barbarism
EB Tylor
33. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
African Economic Organization
Alternatives
primates
Egypt
34. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Conspicuous Consumption
American farming
Alternatives
Lineage
35. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Polygamy
Affinal kin
Feudal System
Rite of passage
36. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
McLennan
Levy-Bruhl
Gene migration
chimpanzee
37. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Modernization
polyandry
Semantics
38. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
old world monkeys
Barbarism
South American indians
Production
39. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Legitimacy
babylonians
Matrilineal Descent
Gene
40. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Cargo Cult
Homonids
Pragmatics
Adaptation
41. 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)
KhoiKhoi
Lineage
Assyrians
Monarchy
42. (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)
carbon-14 dating
Neolithic Period
Etic perspective
Schliemann
43. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Directed Cultural Change
Anthropology
Birth of Anthropology
Social practices
44. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Emile Durkheim
Monarchy
Pacific indians
Market Exchange
45. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Central American indians
War
Horticulture
Dokimasi
46. 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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47. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Quinceanera
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Alternatives
Applied Anthropology
48. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Franz Boas
Mayan indians
Ziggurat
Ralph Lynton
49. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Paleolithic period
Ethnocentrism
Polygamy
Aztec indians
50. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Geophysical prospecting
Band
Redistribution
Industrialization
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