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DSST General Anthropology
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1. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
KhoiKhoi
Birth of Anthropology
Ziggurat
Pacific indians
2. 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.
Schliemann
Market Exchange
homonoids
Allele
3. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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4. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Hebrews
Savagery
Petrie
Ethnocentrism
5. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Social Class Manifestation
Cultivation
Cro-Magnon
Homonids
6. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Central American indians
3 types of excavation
Genetic drift
Social impact assessment
7. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Ethnology
Migration of Erectus
Syntax
Dead Sea scrolls
8. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Homo Erectus
Stratigraphy
Real Culture
State
9. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
New World monkeys
Ralph Lynton
Mesolithic Period
Barbarism
10. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Linguistics
Writing
Schliemann
Religion
11. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Geosphere
perforated edges
Mesopotamia
Sanction
12. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Modernization
Totem
Structural-functional
Etic perspective
13. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Intervention Anthropology
New World monkeys
Gene
Affinal kin
14. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Clan
Lineage
Kindred
Homo Erectus
15. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Gens
Dead Sea scrolls
gene flow
Monarchy
16. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
husbandry
Natural selection
Absolute time
Nitrogenous Bases
17. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Cro-Magnon
Adaptation
Phonetics
Social impact assessment
18. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Feudal System
Genetic drift
Negative Reciprocity
Production
19. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Cultural Anthropology
pastoralism
Diffusion
Writing
20. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Evaluation research
Moieties
European farming
21. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Birth of Anthropology
Elsie Parsons
Ralph Lynton
chimpanzee
22. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Cargo Cult
Malinowski
South American indians
Hammurabi
23. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Migration of Erectus
Morphology
Cargo Cult
Malinowski
24. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Social impact assessment
Revitalization
McLennan
Absolute time
25. 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
European farming
Nitrogenous Bases
Rite of passage
Benedict
26. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
Austrailia indians
prosimians
Phratry
27. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Taboo
Crossing over
South American indians
Bands & Tribes
28. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Hebrews
Cultivation
Status
Neolithic Technology
29. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Religion
Greeks
Legitimacy
Cargo Cult
30. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Tribe
Phonetics
Symbol
Moieties
31. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
mana
James George Frazer
Gene pool
Theory of organic evolution
32. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Stratigraphy
Dead Sea scrolls
Formal Economics
Referencial Symbol
33. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Physical Anthropology
Australopithecus
Geophysical prospecting
34. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Religion
Stratigraphy
Shaman
Phases of rituals
35. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Chiefdom
Radcliffe-Brown
McLennan
Dead Sea scrolls
36. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Kroeber
Moieties
State
Allele frequency
37. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Survival
Peking Man
sharp edges
Allele
38. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Dating methods
exogamy
Formal Economics
Catal Huyak
39. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Neolithic Technology
Reciprocity
State
Malinowski
40. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
husbandry
3 types of excavation
Social Class Manifestation
Social impact assessment
41. 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)
Family of orientation
Physical Anthropology
Revitalization
Non-warlike people
42. 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.
Sanction
Hammurabi
State
Monogamy
43. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Hammurabi
Geophysical prospecting
Writing
Levirate
44. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Cultural Resource Assessment
Cultural Ecology
Franz Boas
Individual Peculiarities
45. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Matrilineal Descent
Non-warlike people
46. 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'
Culture
Divorce
Homo Habilis
Social Darwinism
47. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Alternatives
Ralph Lynton
Policy Research
Unit of Kinship
48. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
babylonians
Non-warlike people
Functionalism
49. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Fieldwork
Neolithic Technology
Sumerians
Nitrogenous Bases
50. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Armchair Anthropologists
Warlike people
Specialities
Gene migration
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