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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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
Unit of Kinship
Affinal kin
Mutagen
2. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Caste
Sanction
Geosphere
Semantics
3. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Dokimasi
WG Rivers
Cultural Resource Assessment
Family of orientation
4. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Egypt
Dating methods
Java Man
polyandry
5. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Barbarism
Referencial Symbol
Natural selection
Crossing over
6. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Emile Durkheim
Social Darwinism
7. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Chiefdom
Kinship
Alternatives
Savagery
8. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Phratry
Legitimacy
Shaman
Etic perspective
9. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Conspicuous Consumption
Kindred
Hammurabi
Diffusion
10. 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.
Pragmatics
Africa
Noosphere
South American indians
11. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Chiefdom
Archaeology
Class
Technology development research
12. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Dating methods
Affinal kin
Hammurabi
Olduvai Gorge
13. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Warlike people
Formal Economics
North American Indians
14. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Java Man
mana
Cultural relativism
Dokimasi
15. 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
Class
Warlike people
Phratry
exogamy
16. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
Leakey family
Phonetics
Social impact assessment
17. Shorthand - Morse Code
Condensed Symbol
Dokimasi
Phases of rituals
State
18. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Egyptian diffusion
Tribe
Policy Research
19. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Legitimacy
Unit of Kinship
Industrialization
Cargo Cult
20. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Yanomamo Feasting
American farming
Social Darwinism
Alternatives
21. 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.
Horticulture
Unit of Kinship
homonoids
prosimians
22. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Anthropology
Phonetics
carbon-14 dating
23. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Fieldwork
Animal domestication
Genpuku
Sapir-Whorf
24. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Potlatch
Peking Man
Policy Research
Genetic drift
25. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Symbol
Mythology
Stratigraphy
Geosphere
26. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Nistri periscope
Weber
Birth of Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
27. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Qualitative Research
Ethnography
mana
classical archaeology
28. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Industrialization
Australopithecus
Condensed Symbol
Mary Douglas Leakey
29. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Phratry
Anthropoids
Sondages
Egyptian diffusion
30. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cargo Cult
Etic perspective
homonoids
Absolute time
31. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Mutagen
Geophysical prospecting
Levirate
Symbol
32. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Adaptation
Applied Anthropology
Archaeology
Band
33. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Modernization
Chiefdom
Emic perspective
Birth of Anthropology
34. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Individual Peculiarities
Animal domestication
Genetic drift
Archaeology
35. 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.
Anthropoids
Middle Paleo Period
Natural selection
Conspicuous Consumption
36. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Schliemann
Mary Douglas Leakey
Individual Peculiarities
Clan
37. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt
Radcliffe-Brown
Hebrews
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Bands & Tribes
38. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Cargo Cult
Dead Sea scrolls
Ziggurat
39. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Dokimasi
Warlike people
Relative time
South American indians
40. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Cultivation
Ziggurat
Bands & Tribes
Functionalism
41. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Unit of Kinship
Individual Peculiarities
Ralph Lynton
Mutation
42. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Symbol
Revitalization
Malinowski
American farming
43. 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
Unit of Kinship
Bands & Tribes
Genetic drift
Applied Anthropology
44. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Kindred
KhoiKhoi
Sumerians
classical archaeology
45. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Stratigraphy
Allele frequency
Cargo Cult
Genetic drift
46. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
American farming
Dokimasi
Cultural Evolution
47. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Geophysical prospecting
Upper Paleo period
Mauss
48. 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.
Cognatic Descent
gene flow
Unit of Kinship
State
49. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Upper Paleo period
Nistri periscope
Legitimacy
Generalized Reciprocity
50. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
KhoiKhoi
Cognatic Descent
Totem
Qualitative Research