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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Cross-cousins
culture
Genpuku
Cargo Cult
2. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Social Darwinism
Homo Habilis
Ideal culture
Homo Erectus
3. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Gene pool
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
State
Chiefdom
4. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Middle Paleo Period
Biosphere
Theory of organic evolution
Fieldwork
5. 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)
Mythology
Chromosome
Gene pool
Social Darwinism
6. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Industrialization
Cultivation
Nistri periscope
North American Indians
7. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
primates
Policy Research
Conspicuous Consumption
KhoiKhoi
8. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Neolithic Technology
Myth
3 types of excavation
Levy-Bruhl
9. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Geosphere
Adaptation
Structural-functional
Religion
10. 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
Genotypic Variations
Lineage
Middle east farming
Upper Paleo period
11. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
State
Lower Paleo Period
Divorce
Peking Man
12. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Nitrogenous Bases
Agriculture
Fieldwork
Policy Research
13. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Technology development research
Moieties
Ethnology
Family of orientation
14. 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
Status
Neanderthals
Dead Sea scrolls
Culture
15. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Cro-Magnon
Excavation
State
Pragmatics
16. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Dating methods
Anthropometry
Redistribution
Bands & Tribes
17. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Geophysical prospecting
Benedict
Bronze Age
Savagery
18. Relatives through marriage
Affinal kin
Theory of organic evolution
endogamy
Bronze Age
19. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Diffusion
Ideal culture
Mesolithic Period
Phases of rituals
20. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
chimpanzee
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnology
Yanomamo
21. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Individual Peculiarities
old world monkeys
Culture
Unit of Kinship
22. 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.
Non-warlike people
Neanderthals
homonoids
Franz Boas
23. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Greeks
Linguistics
Asian farming
24. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
polished stone
Egyptology
Sapir-Whorf
25. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
primates
James George Frazer
Cargo Cult
Mutagen
26. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Clan
Greeks
prosimians
27. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
State
Monogamy
Superposition
Policy Research
28. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mauss
State
Kindred
husbandry
29. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Chiefdom
Homo Erectus
platyrrhini
polyandry
30. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Cargo Cult
Neolithic Technology
Referencial Symbol
Status
31. 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
Gene migration
Mayan indians
Lower Paleo Period
Pragmatics
32. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Middle Paleo Period
Monogamy
polyandry
Referencial Symbol
33. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Formal Economics
Anthropometry
Genpuku
Ethnography
34. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Asian farming
radiometric dating
Savagery
Anthropology
35. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Homonids
Benedict
phenotype
Sumerians
36. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
phenotype
Australopithecus
Dating methods
Poy Tang Lon
37. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Religion
Applied Anthropology
Dating methods
Tributary Production
38. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Gene
Modernization
Poy Tang Lon
Market Exchange
39. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Hittites
Pacific indians
Gens
Warlike people
40. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Biosphere
pastoralism
polished stone
International Development
41. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Animal domestication
Technology development research
Bronze Age
Mauss
42. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Bands & Tribes
Mesolithic Period
Nitrogenous Bases
phenotype
43. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Assyrians
KhoiKhoi
Modernization
3 types of excavation
44. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Homonids
Affinal kin
Shaman
Civilization
45. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Cultural Ecology
Austrailia indians
Allele frequency
old world monkeys
46. 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.
Homonids
State
Etic perspective
Ethnography
47. 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
International Development
Cultural Anthropology
Lineage
Peking Man
48. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Pacific indians
Ethnography
mana
McLennan
49. Determining the success of a project
Applied Anthropology
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Homo Habilis
Evaluation research
50. 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.
Natural selection
Fieldwork
Margaret Mead
Yanomamo Feasting