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DSST General Anthropology
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1. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Sapir-Whorf
Band
Lineage
2. 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.
homonoids
Genotypic Variations
babylonians
Allele
3. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
James George Frazer
Policy Research
Sondages
Mutagen
4. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Malinowski
Monarchy
Technology development research
Egyptology
5. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Catal Huyak
Gene
Levi-Strauss
Mesolithic Period
6. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Ziggurat
Biosphere
pastoralism
International Development
7. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Matrilineal Descent
Sondages
Phases of rituals
KhoiKhoi
8. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Gene pool
Modernization
Hittites
Magnetic prospecting
9. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mauss
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Social practices
Unilineal Descent
10. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Paleolithic period
Yanomamo Feasting
Diffusion
Social practices
11. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Cultural Resource Assessment
Levirate
Paleolithic period
Feudal System
12. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
homonoids
Margaret Mead
Applied Anthropology
Technology development research
13. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.
Sanction
Civilization
Yanomamo
Polygamy
14. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG
primates
Hebrews
Hunter/Gatherers
State
15. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Generalized Reciprocity
Levy-Bruhl
International Development
Neolithic Period
16. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Social impact assessment
Yanomamo
Monogamy
Universalities
17. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Phases of rituals
Migration of Erectus
Cultural relativism
Genpuku
18. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Neolithic Technology
Balanced Reciprocity
Directed Cultural Change
Theory of organic evolution
19. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.
Ideal culture
Noosphere
Writing
Legitimacy
20. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.
Reciprocity
Conspicuous Consumption
Intervention Anthropology
Morphology
21. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Phonetics
Real Culture
Polygamy
Austrailia indians
22. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
Referencial Symbol
American farming
Central American indians
Olduvai Gorge
23. 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
Modernization
Cro-Magnon
State
gene flow
24. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.
Ralph Lynton
Hunter/Gatherers
Policy Research
Negative Reciprocity
25. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Pragmatics
Peking Man
Totem
26. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Quantitative Research
gene flow
Neolithic Period
Cultural relativism
27. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
endogamy
Noosphere
Cultural relativism
WG Rivers
28. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Functionalism
Ethnography
Phratry
platyrrhini
29. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Cargo Cult
Homonids
Cargo Cult
Matrilineal Descent
30. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.
sharp edges
Excavation
Biosphere
Homo Erectus
31. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
sharp edges
Homo Erectus
Lower Paleo Period
Policy Research
32. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Hittites
pastoralism
Elsie Parsons
Sapir-Whorf
33. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Class
Modernization
Legitimacy
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'
Assyrians
Mary Douglas Leakey
Homo Habilis
Birth of Anthropology
35. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
Nitrogenous Bases
Emile Durkheim
Homo Habilis
36. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Paleolithic period
Dokimasi
polyandry
Writing
37. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
Greeks
Middle Paleo Period
Cultural Anthropology
Neolithic Technology
38. 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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39. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
mana
Catal Huyak
Cultural Ecology
Social Class Manifestation
40. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Lower Paleo Period
Gene
Real Culture
chimpanzee
41. Holistic study of humanity.
Anthropology
Fieldwork
Modernization
Specialities
42. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Chiefdom
EB Tylor
Cultural relativism
Homonids
43. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).
Middle east farming
Monogamy
babylonians
Unit of Kinship
44. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
mana
Agriculture
Stratigraphy
Band
45. 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)
Clan
Religion
Real Culture
Phratry
46. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.
Cultural Anthropology
Affinal kin
Franz Boas
Stimulus Diffusion
47. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
State
pastoralism
Alternatives
Physical Anthropology
48. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Individual Peculiarities
Survival
Genetic drift
Allele frequency
49. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Substantive Economics
Dating methods
perforated edges
gene flow
50. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Redistribution
carbon-14 dating
sharp edges
Genotypic Variations
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