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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.
Emile Durkheim
Cultural Evolution
Biosphere
Egyptian diffusion
2. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Symbol
Monarchy
Egyptology
Specialities
3. 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)
Allele frequency
Anthropometry
Genetic Recombination
Social Darwinism
4. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Writing
Yanomamo Feasting
Ethnocentrism
Gens
5. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Market Exchange
Matrilineal Descent
classical archaeology
State
6. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Tribe
Hittites
Ziggurat
phenotype
7. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Pragmatics
Writing
Mayan indians
Peking Man
8. 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
Social impact assessment
Nitrogenous Bases
Polygamy
9. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Sanction
Neolithic Period
James George Frazer
Syntax
10. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Religion
African Economic Organization
Malinowski
11. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
babylonians
polyandry
platyrrhini
gene flow
12. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Crossing over
Diffusion
Neolithic Technology
Mary Douglas Leakey
13. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Radcliffe-Brown
Allele frequency
Myth
14. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Rite of passage
Universalities
Policy Research
husbandry
15. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
European farming
Mayan indians
Phratry
Physical Anthropology
16. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Catal Huyak
European farming
Status
Middle east farming
17. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Ethnology
Geosphere
Neolithic Technology
Biosphere
18. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Civilization
Writing
American farming
Polygamy
19. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Mendel's first principle of genetics
EB Tylor
Mendel's third principle of genetics
prehistoric archaeology
20. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
Chiefdom
Neanderthals
Chromosome
Olduvai Gorge
21. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
platyrrhini
Genetic Recombination
Chromosome
22. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
radiometric dating
Paleolithic period
Yanomamo Feasting
Cargo Cult
23. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Hammurabi
Phonology
Modernization
Rite of passage
24. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Cross-cousins
Market Exchange
Civilization
Lineage
25. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Superposition
Excavation
Malinowski
polished stone
26. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations
Genotypic Variations
Redistribution
Feudal System
Levi-Strauss
27. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Generalized Reciprocity
Diffusion
Phases of rituals
Status
28. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Pacific indians
Monarchy
Magnetic prospecting
Agriculture
29. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Diffusion
sharp edges
Cargo Cult
30. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Gens
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
culture
31. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Chromosome
Affinal kin
Quantitative Research
Franz Boas
32. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Cargo Cult
Conspicuous Consumption
Genetic Recombination
Taboo
33. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Benedict
Morphology
Religion
Bronze Age
34. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
prehistoric archaeology
Cargo Cult
Weber
Poy Tang Lon
35. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Individual Peculiarities
Levi-Strauss
Kroeber
Birth of Anthropology
36. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Homonids
culture
Mesolithic Period
Sapir-Whorf
37. 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'
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Homo Habilis
Migration of Erectus
Production
38. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotype
Balanced Reciprocity
Genpuku
Theory of organic evolution
39. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Substantive Economics
Cultural relativism
Ethnography
Survival
40. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Intervention Anthropology
Nitrogenous Bases
Religion
War
41. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Schliemann
prehistoric archaeology
DNA
Non-warlike people
42. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.
Status
Levy-Bruhl
Emic perspective
Mutation
43. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Status
Animism
Kinship
Physical Anthropology
44. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Hunter/Gatherers
Petrie
homonoids
Cultural Anthropology
45. Thinkers: linguistics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Social Darwinism
Chromosome
Australopithecus
46. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Mutagen
Peking Man
Levy-Bruhl
Natural selection
47. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Formal Economics
Mythology
Taboo
African Economic Organization
48. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Polygamy
endogamy
Phonetics
Egyptology
49. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Petrie
Allele
Culture
Affinal kin
50. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
chimpanzee
Middle Paleo Period
Ralph Lynton