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DSST General Anthropology
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1. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Birth of Anthropology
Revitalization
Moieties
Natural selection
2. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
African Economic Organization
Quantitative Research
Weber
Mutagen
3. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Peking Man
Band
Mutation
Radcliffe-Brown
4. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Cargo Cult
Monogamy
Homo Erectus
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
5. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Reciprocity
Revitalization
Clan
Sanction
6. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
Kluckhohn
Polygamy
Clan
7. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
chimpanzee
Directed Cultural Change
mana
Neolithic Technology
8. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Africa
Sondages
Cargo Cult
Non-warlike people
9. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
polyandry
Polygamy
DNA
Kroeber
10. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
carbon-14 dating
Cro-Magnon
Production
Paleolithic period
11. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
prosimians
Catal Huyak
culture
Levy-Bruhl
12. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Natural selection
polyandry
Myth
Monarchy
13. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
carbon-14 dating
Gens
Ralph Lynton
Qualitative Research
14. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
Morphology
Dead Sea scrolls
Phases of rituals
Aztec indians
15. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
Gene
Adaptation
old world monkeys
16. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Kroeber
Radcliffe-Brown
Phratry
Ethnocentrism
17. Relatives through marriage
Excavation
Gens
Chiefdom
Affinal kin
18. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
mana
Africa
Armchair Anthropologists
Culture
19. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Monarchy
Generalized Reciprocity
gene flow
20. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Genotypic Variations
American farming
Australopithecus
21. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Levi-Strauss
husbandry
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Catal Huyak
22. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Social impact assessment
Applied Anthropology
classical archaeology
gene flow
23. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Semantics
Animal domestication
WG Rivers
Cultivation
24. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods
Warlike people
Egyptology
Technology development research
Hammurabi
25. 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
Directed Cultural Change
Lineage
prehistoric archaeology
Applied Anthropology
26. Family that raised you
Potlatch
Cultural Ecology
Family of orientation
Band
27. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Radcliffe-Brown
carbon-14 dating
Religion
3 types of excavation
28. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Superposition
Directed Cultural Change
primates
Levy-Bruhl
29. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Physical Anthropology
Sapir-Whorf
Cargo Cult
Dead Sea scrolls
30. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation
Egyptian diffusion
Monogamy
phenotype
Balanced Reciprocity
31. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Ritual
radiometric dating
Mary Douglas Leakey
Non-warlike people
32. New family you form when you marry and have children.
International Development
chimpanzee
Family of procreation
Symbol
33. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Chiefdom
Genetic Recombination
Social impact assessment
Magnetic prospecting
34. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Fieldwork
homonoids
Kroeber
35. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Genetic Recombination
Applied Anthropology
Benedict
Symbol
36. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Birth of Anthropology
Divorce
Mendelian population
Mesopotamia
37. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Survival
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Hittites
Negative Reciprocity
38. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Affinal kin
Gene
Armchair Anthropologists
Etic perspective
39. Ways to date artifacts
carbon-14 dating
Genetic Recombination
Catal Huyak
Dating methods
40. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Austrailia indians
Civilization
culture
Sumerians
41. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Mayan indians
Natural selection
Central American indians
Yanomamo Feasting
42. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Yanomamo Feasting
Individual Peculiarities
Agriculture
Sondages
43. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Ziggurat
Linguistics
Allele frequency
Mesopotamia
44. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
Conspicuous Consumption
Referencial Symbol
Structural-functional
Dokimasi
45. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Theory of organic evolution
Middle Paleo Period
Magnetic prospecting
carbon-14 dating
46. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology
Java Man
Kroeber
Aztec indians
Petrie
47. Traces back to ONE person
Lineage
Status
Horticulture
Kroeber
48. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Qualitative Research
Structural-functional
Noosphere
Mayan indians
49. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Social practices
Central American indians
Sapir-Whorf
phenotype
50. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Policy Research
Genpuku
Ziggurat
Syntax