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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Archaeology
Egypt
Geophysical prospecting
3 types of excavation
2. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
James George Frazer
Relative time
endogamy
Shaman
3. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
State
Civilization
4. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Mendelian population
Bands & Tribes
Ethnology
Radcliffe-Brown
5. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Yanomamo
Production
Levy-Bruhl
Geerts
6. 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
Referencial Symbol
Applied Anthropology
Weber
Java Man
7. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
International Development
Relative time
Caste
Specialities
8. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Totem
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Lineage
Ethnology
9. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
American farming
polished stone
homonoids
Armchair Anthropologists
10. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Taboo
phenotype
Linguistics
Redistribution
11. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Status
Olduvai Gorge
Industrialization
Condensed Symbol
12. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Phonetics
Unilineal Descent
Animal domestication
Absolute time
13. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
homonoids
Unit of Kinship
Relative time
primates
14. 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
Ethnology
Weber
Class
Kindred
15. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Feudal System
Sanction
Affinal kin
Matrilineal Descent
16. 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.
Greeks
Franz Boas
State
Leakey family
17. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Weber
Semantics
Animal domestication
Gene migration
18. Relatives through marriage
Dokimasi
Australopithecus
Affinal kin
Geophysical prospecting
19. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
Armchair Anthropologists
Unilineal Descent
carbon-14 dating
Chiefdom
20. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Barbarism
Relative time
Franz Boas
Syntax
21. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
State
Asian farming
Cognatic Descent
Margaret Mead
22. 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).
Kindred
Status
Unit of Kinship
Substantive Economics
23. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Mayan indians
Rite of passage
Olduvai Gorge
Nitrogenous Bases
24. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Gene
Cro-Magnon
Cargo Cult
Cultural Resource Assessment
25. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Civilization
Quinceanera
chimpanzee
Caste
26. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Margaret Mead
Applied Anthropology
Geosphere
Redistribution
27. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Feudal System
Culture
Mutation
Kluckhohn
28. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Genetic Recombination
Phonetics
Gene
Levi-Strauss
29. 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
Armchair Anthropologists
Java Man
Bronze Age
30. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
polished stone
Mesolithic Period
Hammurabi
Allele frequency
31. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
endogamy
Benedict
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Hebrews
32. Traces back to ONE person
Intervention Anthropology
KhoiKhoi
Kluckhohn
Lineage
33. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
War
Olduvai Gorge
Genotypic Variations
Cro-Magnon
34. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Genetic drift
Morphology
Directed Cultural Change
Egypt
35. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
endogamy
Elsie Parsons
Mesopotamia
Cargo Cult
36. 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)
Social Darwinism
Nistri periscope
Sanction
Family of procreation
37. <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
Warlike people
Phonetics
Upper Paleo period
Family of procreation
38. Collecting community data for use by development planners
prehistoric archaeology
Social impact assessment
Gene pool
Crossing over
39. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Directed Cultural Change
Malinowski
Pacific indians
Egypt
40. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Ziggurat
Theory of organic evolution
Yanomamo Feasting
American farming
41. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf
Status
42. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
War
Genotype
Modernization
endogamy
43. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Dokimasi
Stimulus Diffusion
Revitalization
Chiefdom
44. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Biosphere
American farming
Catal Huyak
McLennan
45. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Specialities
International Development
Functionalism
Alternatives
46. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Fieldwork
phenotype
Poy Tang Lon
Applied Anthropology
47. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Yanomamo
Symbol
Noosphere
Birth of Anthropology
48. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Magnetic prospecting
Cargo Cult
McLennan
State
49. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Barbarism
Hammurabi
Java Man
Mutation
50. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Clan
Ideal culture
Cultural relativism
Diffusion