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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Dokimasi
Mendelian population
Diffusion
Greeks
2. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Substantive Economics
Chromosome
Homo Erectus
Quinceanera
3. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Genotypic Variations
gene flow
Java Man
4. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Feudal System
Phases of rituals
Petrie
Bronze Age
5. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Phratry
Feudal System
Peking Man
Kindred
6. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Feudal System
Kindred
platyrrhini
7. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Anthropology
Shaman
Specialities
Rite of passage
8. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Agriculture
Writing
Geosphere
Lower Paleo Period
9. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment
Mesopotamia
Mayan indians
Policy Research
Malinowski
10. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Kluckhohn
Ethnocentrism
carbon-14 dating
Lower Paleo Period
11. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Reciprocity
Directed Cultural Change
Cargo Cult
American farming
12. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
platyrrhini
Magnetic prospecting
Phases of rituals
culture
13. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Nitrogenous Bases
Hunter/Gatherers
Peking Man
Totem
14. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Real Culture
Egyptian diffusion
3 types of excavation
Margaret Mead
15. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Hittites
Cargo Cult
Leakey family
Monarchy
16. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Directed Cultural Change
Gene migration
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Kinship
17. Determining the success of a project
Evaluation research
mana
platyrrhini
Poy Tang Lon
18. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
polyandry
Theory of organic evolution
Family of orientation
Anthropoids
19. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Structuralism
Austrailia indians
platyrrhini
Ethnography
20. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Tributary Production
Bands & Tribes
classical archaeology
Biosphere
21. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Relative time
gene flow
Genetic Recombination
Mayan indians
22. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Greeks
Kroeber
Ethnography
Aztec indians
23. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
International Development
Band
James George Frazer
Symbol
24. Ways to date artifacts
radiometric dating
Dating methods
Genotype
Peking Man
25. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Anthropoids
Legitimacy
Affinal kin
chimpanzee
26. Civilization to invent 'zero'
Levi-Strauss
Tributary Production
babylonians
Homo Habilis
27. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Leakey family
Phonology
Agriculture
Relative time
28. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Nistri periscope
Homonids
Morphology
Mutation
29. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
Assyrians
old world monkeys
Alternatives
Genotype
30. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Ziggurat
sharp edges
prosimians
Emile Durkheim
31. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Kindred
Margaret Mead
Theory of organic evolution
Aztec indians
32. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Phases of rituals
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Sanction
Armchair Anthropologists
33. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Migration of Erectus
Real Culture
Survival
exogamy
34. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Myth
Dead Sea scrolls
mana
Ralph Lynton
35. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Horticulture
Directed Cultural Change
Hammurabi
Specialities
36. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Poy Tang Lon
Semantics
Egyptology
Ideal culture
37. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Nuclear Family
Barbarism
Cultivation
Polygamy
38. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Modernization
Poy Tang Lon
Relative time
Substantive Economics
39. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Mendelian population
Condensed Symbol
Bronze Age
Savagery
40. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Semantics
Australopithecus
State
Assyrians
41. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
DNA
Writing
Malinowski
42. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Technology development research
Nitrogenous Bases
Ideal culture
Sapir-Whorf
43. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Taboo
Peking Man
Non-warlike people
James George Frazer
44. Relatives through marriage
State
radiometric dating
International Development
Affinal kin
45. 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.
WG Rivers
Noosphere
Levi-Strauss
Animal domestication
46. 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.
Sapir-Whorf
Natural selection
Gens
Allele
47. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Middle Paleo Period
Social practices
Phratry
Central American indians
48. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Excavation
North American Indians
sharp edges
African Economic Organization
49. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Monarchy
Mutagen
Chromosome
50. 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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