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DSST General Anthropology
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1. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
prosimians
Legitimacy
Policy Research
Allele
2. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
endogamy
Tribe
Shaman
Franz Boas
3. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Emic perspective
Modernization
Religion
Stratigraphy
4. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Malinowski
polyandry
Mesopotamia
Status
5. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Production
Migration of Erectus
Symbol
old world monkeys
6. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
African Economic Organization
Survival
Structuralism
Status
7. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Lower Paleo Period
Mutagen
Middle Paleo Period
Upper Paleo period
8. 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.
platyrrhini
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Structuralism
Austrailia indians
9. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Margaret Mead
Unilineal Descent
Cultural Resource Assessment
Taboo
10. 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.
Kluckhohn
State
Religion
Asian farming
11. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Specialities
Austrailia indians
Archaeology
Pragmatics
12. Determining the success of a project
Monarchy
Condensed Symbol
Genotypic Variations
Evaluation research
13. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Assyrians
Divorce
Directed Cultural Change
Levi-Strauss
14. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Genetic drift
Electromagnetic prospecting
carbon-14 dating
Neolithic Technology
15. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Upper Paleo period
Mauss
Africa
Evaluation research
16. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Dating methods
Rite of passage
Genetic Recombination
Cognatic Descent
17. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Kindred
Sondages
Redistribution
chimpanzee
18. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Excavation
Lower Paleo Period
Qualitative Research
Gene
19. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Gene migration
Generalized Reciprocity
Central American indians
Fieldwork
20. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
North American Indians
Ralph Lynton
Potlatch
Symbol
21. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Yanomamo
Armchair Anthropologists
chimpanzee
Lineage
22. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Olduvai Gorge
Asian farming
North American Indians
Ethnography
23. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Survival
North American Indians
Feudal System
Writing
24. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
prosimians
Kindred
Poy Tang Lon
Weber
25. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Savagery
Genotypic Variations
Quinceanera
Monogamy
26. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Social Class Manifestation
Aztec indians
Social Darwinism
culture
27. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Cross-cousins
gene flow
Cultural relativism
Cultural Anthropology
28. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Directed Cultural Change
Levirate
Poy Tang Lon
Egypt
29. 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
Applied Anthropology
State
Benedict
Levi-Strauss
30. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
3 types of excavation
Phratry
Levi-Strauss
Upper Paleo period
31. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Potlatch
Radcliffe-Brown
Nistri periscope
Social Class Manifestation
32. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Phratry
American farming
chimpanzee
33. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
3 types of excavation
Reciprocity
Geosphere
Assyrians
34. 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'
Homo Habilis
State
Hittites
Social Darwinism
35. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Quinceanera
Mendelian population
Geosphere
Middle Paleo Period
36. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Structural-functional
husbandry
Egyptology
Market Exchange
37. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
James George Frazer
Specialities
Diffusion
Taboo
38. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Religion
Survival
Assyrians
Conspicuous Consumption
39. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Mauss
Sumerians
Petrie
James George Frazer
40. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Mayan indians
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Australopithecus
Tribe
41. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Social Darwinism
Survival
Mesolithic Period
Totem
42. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Gene
Ziggurat
Olduvai Gorge
Barbarism
43. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
Cro-Magnon
Rite of passage
Kroeber
Symbol
44. 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
Gene pool
chimpanzee
Assyrians
Substantive Economics
45. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Ideal culture
Egyptian diffusion
Kluckhohn
Noosphere
46. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Caste
Egyptian diffusion
3 types of excavation
Nuclear Family
47. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Radcliffe-Brown
homonoids
Shaman
Egyptology
48. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Animal domestication
Adaptation
Biosphere
49. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Nitrogenous Bases
Survival
culture
Catal Huyak
50. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Radcliffe-Brown
Elsie Parsons
Semantics
Phases of rituals