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DSST General Anthropology
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1. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Elsie Parsons
Band
State
Java Man
2. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Mutagen
Morphology
Middle east farming
Band
3. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
gene flow
Functionalism
Genpuku
Legitimacy
4. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Aztec indians
State
Religion
Armchair Anthropologists
5. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Balanced Reciprocity
Functionalism
European farming
Quinceanera
6. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Potlatch
Levirate
Nitrogenous Bases
Market Exchange
7. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Tributary Production
Religion
Symbol
Balanced Reciprocity
8. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.
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9. <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
Sondages
Rite of passage
Upper Paleo period
Intervention Anthropology
10. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Hittites
Noosphere
Nistri periscope
primates
11. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Feudal System
Genotypic Variations
Poy Tang Lon
Potlatch
12. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
sharp edges
Generalized Reciprocity
Balanced Reciprocity
13. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Kinship
Culture
Substantive Economics
Anthropoids
14. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
Substantive Economics
Class
Band
Animal domestication
15. Family that raised you
Family of orientation
Franz Boas
Electromagnetic prospecting
Mesopotamia
16. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
KhoiKhoi
Writing
Egyptology
Catal Huyak
17. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
DNA
Ethnocentrism
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Homo Habilis
18. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Petrie
Migration of Erectus
Sondages
Mendel's second principle of genetics
19. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
Quantitative Research
Mythology
Policy Research
Margaret Mead
20. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Hunter/Gatherers
International Development
Malinowski
Elsie Parsons
21. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Genotypic Variations
Mythology
Tribe
mana
22. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Malinowski
Religion
culture
Peking Man
23. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Dead Sea scrolls
Tributary Production
Geophysical prospecting
Cargo Cult
24. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Status
International Development
Kroeber
Social practices
25. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Migration of Erectus
prosimians
Qualitative Research
homonoids
26. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production
Tributary Production
Unit of Kinship
Dokimasi
Negative Reciprocity
27. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Yanomamo Feasting
Cargo Cult
Aztec indians
Syntax
28. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Chiefdom
Tribe
Levirate
Industrialization
29. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Structuralism
EB Tylor
Africa
30. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Matrilineal Descent
Kroeber
Cargo Cult
Levi-Strauss
31. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Tributary Production
Market Exchange
Phonetics
Real Culture
32. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Hittites
Central American indians
chimpanzee
platyrrhini
33. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Assyrians
WG Rivers
Animism
DNA
34. 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
Nistri periscope
Cultural Anthropology
Formal Economics
Unilineal Descent
35. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Mayan indians
Caste
Genpuku
Specialities
36. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Sapir-Whorf
WG Rivers
Condensed Symbol
chimpanzee
37. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Polygamy
Mesopotamia
Schliemann
Yanomamo Feasting
38. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
classical archaeology
Upper Paleo period
Mythology
chimpanzee
39. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Divorce
Geophysical prospecting
Superposition
Cargo Cult
40. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
babylonians
3 types of excavation
Cultural Anthropology
Genetic Recombination
41. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Nuclear Family
Shaman
Ethnology
Totem
42. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Civilization
Social Class Manifestation
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Ethnology
43. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.
James George Frazer
Geosphere
Alternatives
radiometric dating
44. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Universalities
Dokimasi
Sapir-Whorf
classical archaeology
45. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Sanction
Mythology
Electromagnetic prospecting
Relative time
46. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Negative Reciprocity
Archaeology
Nistri periscope
Chiefdom
47. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Ethnology
Fieldwork
State
Barbarism
48. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Dating methods
Monogamy
Mythology
49. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Mary Douglas Leakey
Divorce
Bronze Age
Allele
50. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Lineage
KhoiKhoi
Monogamy
Archaeology
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