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DSST General Anthropology
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1. 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
Emic perspective
Stimulus Diffusion
Leakey family
Genotypic Variations
2. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Real Culture
International Development
Structuralism
3 types of excavation
3. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Petrie
American farming
Olduvai Gorge
Poy Tang Lon
4. Shorthand - Morse Code
Sumerians
Condensed Symbol
Fieldwork
Specialities
5. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)
Ethnocentrism
Phratry
Intervention Anthropology
sharp edges
6. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Levi-Strauss
Neolithic Period
African Economic Organization
7. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Sumerians
Assyrians
Ralph Lynton
8. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Africa
Phases of rituals
Functionalism
Redistribution
9. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Pragmatics
Phonetics
Gene migration
Cultivation
10. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Australopithecus
Nistri periscope
Family of orientation
Ideal culture
11. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
African Economic Organization
Dating methods
Geophysical prospecting
polished stone
12. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Catal Huyak
Migration of Erectus
Mutation
Family of procreation
13. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
homonoids
Nitrogenous Bases
Social practices
McLennan
14. 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.
State
Gene
Morphology
Production
15. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
Allele frequency
polished stone
North American Indians
16. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Kinship
Universalities
Geophysical prospecting
Cargo Cult
17. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Ritual
Polygamy
Adaptation
Mary Douglas Leakey
18. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Social impact assessment
Hunter/Gatherers
Phases of rituals
19. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Anthropoids
Cargo Cult
Mythology
Intervention Anthropology
20. (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)
Qualitative Research
Pacific indians
Neolithic Period
Phratry
21. Invented smelting of iron
Hittites
Noosphere
Migration of Erectus
North American Indians
22. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Technology development research
Universalities
Rite of passage
platyrrhini
23. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
sharp edges
Clan
Legitimacy
Ethnology
24. 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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25. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Chiefdom
Physical Anthropology
Genetic drift
26. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
gene flow
Totem
Taboo
Phonetics
27. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Genetic drift
Generalized Reciprocity
Dokimasi
Phonology
28. Ritual of Greek Citizenship
Agriculture
Dokimasi
Tributary Production
prosimians
29. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
polyandry
North American Indians
Redistribution
Absolute time
30. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
Homonids
Ziggurat
Cross-cousins
Negative Reciprocity
31. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Shaman
Mutation
Mendel's first principle of genetics
McLennan
32. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Levy-Bruhl
Applied Anthropology
Gens
Generalized Reciprocity
33. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Savagery
War
Anthropoids
primates
34. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Allele frequency
DNA
Chromosome
Nitrogenous Bases
35. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Genotype
husbandry
Hittites
Magnetic prospecting
36. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
War
Potlatch
Caste
Gene
37. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Legitimacy
Olduvai Gorge
Diffusion
Assyrians
38. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Cultural Ecology
Stimulus Diffusion
Phases of rituals
Austrailia indians
39. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Religion
Taboo
Mesolithic Period
Redistribution
40. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
Syntax
Gens
polyandry
Conspicuous Consumption
41. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
Genetic Recombination
Ethnocentrism
James George Frazer
Redistribution
42. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Alternatives
Barbarism
perforated edges
Genotype
43. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Divorce
Anthropoids
Quantitative Research
KhoiKhoi
44. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Quinceanera
Chiefdom
Africa
James George Frazer
45. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Feudal System
Religion
Social Darwinism
Absolute time
46. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Hittites
War
Fieldwork
Taboo
47. Things all people do the same way (language)
Universalities
Phonology
Reciprocity
Poy Tang Lon
48. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Asian farming
Feudal System
culture
Nistri periscope
49. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Adaptation
Noosphere
Levy-Bruhl
endogamy
50. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.
State
Formal Economics
Middle east farming
Kroeber