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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
husbandry
Superposition
Mutagen
Quinceanera
2. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
African Economic Organization
Family of orientation
Franz Boas
Nuclear Family
3. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Mutagen
Petrie
Hunter/Gatherers
Australopithecus
4. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
European farming
Armchair Anthropologists
Culture
carbon-14 dating
5. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Symbol
Dokimasi
Diffusion
Nistri periscope
6. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Caste
EB Tylor
Quinceanera
Middle Paleo Period
7. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Yanomamo Feasting
Intervention Anthropology
Neanderthals
Polygamy
8. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Malinowski
Ziggurat
Warlike people
Homo Habilis
9. 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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10. 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
Status
Applied Anthropology
Survival
Diffusion
11. 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.
Negative Reciprocity
Emic perspective
Physical Anthropology
Migration of Erectus
12. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Relative time
Egyptology
Animal domestication
Cultural Ecology
13. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
Superposition
Anthropoids
Homo Erectus
Geerts
14. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Fieldwork
husbandry
South American indians
Greeks
15. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
perforated edges
Gene migration
Ideal culture
Modernization
16. Shorthand - Morse Code
North American Indians
Condensed Symbol
perforated edges
Class
17. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Mutation
Etic perspective
Mesopotamia
husbandry
18. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Mythology
State
Etic perspective
North American Indians
19. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).
Sapir-Whorf
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Cross-cousins
Family of orientation
20. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Crossing over
Tribe
Etic perspective
Cargo Cult
21. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
polished stone
Cultural Anthropology
Real Culture
Cultural Resource Assessment
22. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Upper Paleo period
Qualitative Research
American farming
Nitrogenous Bases
23. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Homo Habilis
Pragmatics
Chiefdom
Taboo
24. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Technology development research
Petrie
Absolute time
Allele frequency
25. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Hammurabi
Generalized Reciprocity
Formal Economics
26. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
polyandry
Mayan indians
Directed Cultural Change
Elsie Parsons
27. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Sumerians
Poy Tang Lon
Chiefdom
American farming
28. Collecting community data for use by development planners
State
Social impact assessment
Affinal kin
Mendel's second principle of genetics
29. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Cultural Resource Assessment
exogamy
Africa
Individual Peculiarities
30. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978
Anthropometry
Cognatic Descent
Mary Douglas Leakey
Africa
31. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Elsie Parsons
carbon-14 dating
Kluckhohn
Chromosome
32. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Divorce
Austrailia indians
Religion
Revitalization
33. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Shaman
prehistoric archaeology
Mutagen
Hittites
34. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.
Emile Durkheim
Divorce
old world monkeys
State
35. 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)
South American indians
Catal Huyak
Cultural Anthropology
Divorce
36. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Moieties
Taboo
Phases of rituals
Yanomamo
37. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Leakey family
Superposition
Sumerians
38. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Polygamy
Status
Weber
Java Man
39. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Generalized Reciprocity
Austrailia indians
Superposition
Olduvai Gorge
40. Traces back to ONE person
Geerts
Industrialization
Neanderthals
Lineage
41. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
phenotype
Individual Peculiarities
Legitimacy
State
42. Civilization to invent 'zero'
babylonians
Malinowski
Real Culture
Absolute time
43. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Egyptian diffusion
Writing
Cultural Evolution
Structural-functional
44. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
International Development
Kluckhohn
Hebrews
Lineage
45. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Negative Reciprocity
Central American indians
Pacific indians
Alternatives
46. 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.
Theory of organic evolution
Hammurabi
Structuralism
Genotypic Variations
47. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Intervention Anthropology
platyrrhini
Savagery
Semantics
48. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Magnetic prospecting
Policy Research
Feudal System
Morphology
49. 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
Genpuku
Legitimacy
Modernization
Ethnocentrism
50. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
endogamy
Non-warlike people
Divorce
Fieldwork