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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
sharp edges
Hittites
Gene pool
pastoralism
2. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Franz Boas
Pragmatics
Qualitative Research
3 types of excavation
3. Civilization to invent 'zero'
babylonians
Mayan indians
State
Qualitative Research
4. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
EB Tylor
Kluckhohn
Myth
Animism
5. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Divorce
Relative time
polyandry
Cultivation
6. 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
Weber
Australopithecus
Family of procreation
7. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.
Emic perspective
Modernization
James George Frazer
Structuralism
8. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Java Man
Real Culture
Armchair Anthropologists
Kinship
9. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Polygamy
exogamy
McLennan
African Economic Organization
10. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Genotypic Variations
Yanomamo
Phonology
Poy Tang Lon
11. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
mana
Kindred
old world monkeys
Animism
12. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Mendelian population
Benedict
Austrailia indians
Religion
13. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Gene
Excavation
polished stone
Fieldwork
14. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Animal domestication
Hittites
Cro-Magnon
Ethnocentrism
15. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Superposition
Sumerians
primates
Electromagnetic prospecting
16. 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
Egyptology
McLennan
Applied Anthropology
Real Culture
17. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
Cultural relativism
Cultural Ecology
Leakey family
18. 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).
Cargo Cult
Unit of Kinship
Yanomamo Feasting
Negative Reciprocity
19. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Ethnocentrism
Balanced Reciprocity
polyandry
Stratigraphy
20. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Family of procreation
Cultural Anthropology
prehistoric archaeology
21. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Geophysical prospecting
African Economic Organization
pastoralism
Peking Man
22. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland
Religion
Horticulture
Social Class Manifestation
EB Tylor
23. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Natural selection
Potlatch
Catal Huyak
24. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Morphology
Shaman
Directed Cultural Change
Geosphere
25. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Gens
Geosphere
DNA
Greeks
26. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Alternatives
Taboo
Assyrians
Olduvai Gorge
27. 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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28. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Gens
Homo Habilis
Conspicuous Consumption
Linguistics
29. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Mayan indians
Middle Paleo Period
Cultural Anthropology
exogamy
30. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Petrie
Syntax
Religion
gene flow
31. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
New World monkeys
Real Culture
Applied Anthropology
Family of procreation
32. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Gene migration
WG Rivers
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Dokimasi
33. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Nistri periscope
Unilineal Descent
Industrialization
Market Exchange
34. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Malinowski
Reciprocity
Sanction
Magnetic prospecting
35. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
Cultural Anthropology
Catal Huyak
Archaeology
Genotypic Variations
36. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Excavation
endogamy
Birth of Anthropology
Mauss
37. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
platyrrhini
Structural-functional
Lineage
Franz Boas
38. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Yanomamo Feasting
Ideal culture
Assyrians
Pacific indians
39. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
International Development
exogamy
Directed Cultural Change
Kinship
40. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Caste
Animal domestication
Functionalism
Emile Durkheim
41. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Matrilineal Descent
Reciprocity
Olduvai Gorge
Emile Durkheim
42. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Cro-Magnon
radiometric dating
Cross-cousins
Chiefdom
43. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Family of orientation
Cross-cousins
prosimians
Referencial Symbol
44. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Anthropometry
pastoralism
Electromagnetic prospecting
American farming
45. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Linguistics
Divorce
Birth of Anthropology
Status
46. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
babylonians
culture
Phratry
Cultural Ecology
47. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Warlike people
Intervention Anthropology
Writing
Dating methods
48. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Java Man
platyrrhini
KhoiKhoi
49. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Gene
KhoiKhoi
Legitimacy
Sapir-Whorf
50. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
primates
Kinship
babylonians
Morphology