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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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
3 types of excavation
Market Exchange
Neolithic Period
European farming
2. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Levi-Strauss
Radcliffe-Brown
Electromagnetic prospecting
Etic perspective
3. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
Central American indians
Caste
Warlike people
4. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Divorce
Balanced Reciprocity
Anthropometry
Olduvai Gorge
5. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Kindred
EB Tylor
Qualitative Research
Birth of Anthropology
6. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Structural-functional
Diffusion
Magnetic prospecting
Qualitative Research
7. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Ziggurat
Neolithic Period
Nistri periscope
8. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Sanction
Egyptian diffusion
Pacific indians
Warlike people
9. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Levi-Strauss
Birth of Anthropology
Religion
Non-warlike people
10. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Mesolithic Period
Nuclear Family
11. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Kindred
husbandry
Neanderthals
gene flow
12. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Conspicuous Consumption
Tributary Production
Monogamy
Hammurabi
13. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Evaluation research
endogamy
Real Culture
Mayan indians
14. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
homonoids
Gene
Electromagnetic prospecting
Dating methods
15. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Divorce
Middle east farming
Poy Tang Lon
Dating methods
16. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Totem
Ethnology
endogamy
Band
17. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Market Exchange
Dating methods
Crossing over
Syntax
18. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Yanomamo
Catal Huyak
African Economic Organization
Redistribution
19. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Real Culture
Religion
Physical Anthropology
Bands & Tribes
20. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
pastoralism
Olduvai Gorge
Middle Paleo Period
Physical Anthropology
21. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Mary Douglas Leakey
prosimians
Agriculture
22. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Mauss
Cargo Cult
Social Darwinism
23. 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'
Levi-Strauss
Ethnography
Homo Habilis
International Development
24. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Phases of rituals
Hebrews
Symbol
Sapir-Whorf
25. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Middle east farming
Religion
Kluckhohn
platyrrhini
26. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Fieldwork
Structuralism
Kluckhohn
Allele
27. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Production
Levi-Strauss
Ziggurat
Redistribution
28. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Sumerians
sharp edges
Technology development research
Hittites
29. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Barbarism
Genpuku
American farming
War
30. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Gene pool
South American indians
Cargo Cult
International Development
31. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Writing
chimpanzee
International Development
Agriculture
32. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Production
Levirate
Ziggurat
Genetic Recombination
33. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Chiefdom
carbon-14 dating
Cognatic Descent
Divorce
34. 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).
Chiefdom
Unit of Kinship
Dead Sea scrolls
Gene migration
35. Traces back to ONE person
Central American indians
Middle Paleo Period
Lineage
Australopithecus
36. 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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37. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
State
perforated edges
Structuralism
Nitrogenous Bases
38. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Absolute time
Unilineal Descent
Cargo Cult
Relative time
39. Relatives through marriage
Affinal kin
Leakey family
Neolithic Technology
Excavation
40. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Warlike people
Cultural relativism
Geerts
Mendelian population
41. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Myth
EB Tylor
Mayan indians
babylonians
42. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Mythology
Symbol
gene flow
Levirate
43. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Benedict
Formal Economics
Diffusion
Agriculture
44. 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
Cro-Magnon
Diffusion
phenotype
Genotypic Variations
45. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Chromosome
Cultural Resource Assessment
Divorce
Birth of Anthropology
46. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Sapir-Whorf
American farming
Excavation
Egyptian diffusion
47. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
culture
Levy-Bruhl
Ziggurat
Unit of Kinship
48. Family that raised you
EB Tylor
Family of orientation
mana
Cultural relativism
49. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Non-warlike people
Policy Research
Middle Paleo Period
50. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Religion
Biosphere
Qualitative Research
Phratry
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