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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Gene pool
Geosphere
Substantive Economics
Kindred
2. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
Structural-functional
chimpanzee
Semantics
Bands & Tribes
3. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide
Armchair Anthropologists
Mendelian population
Emile Durkheim
Mauss
4. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
Animism
Production
Leakey family
War
5. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Kindred
Sumerians
prosimians
Market Exchange
6. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
New World monkeys
mana
Anthropometry
Civilization
7. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.
Specialities
Hunter/Gatherers
Mesopotamia
Greeks
8. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Levirate
Peking Man
Levi-Strauss
Franz Boas
9. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Allele
Caste
Yanomamo
10. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
McLennan
Animal domestication
Electromagnetic prospecting
Ritual
11. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Status
Genpuku
Band
Intervention Anthropology
12. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
Revitalization
Monarchy
Genotypic Variations
pastoralism
13. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Neanderthals
Social impact assessment
Levirate
Ralph Lynton
14. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Chiefdom
Anthropoids
Genotype
Homo Erectus
15. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Fieldwork
Franz Boas
Family of orientation
Neolithic Technology
16. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Condensed Symbol
Hittites
Relative time
gene flow
17. <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
Fieldwork
Reciprocity
Upper Paleo period
Ethnology
18. 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.
primates
Civilization
Writing
Neolithic Period
19. Ways to date artifacts
Dating methods
Unilineal Descent
Phonology
Directed Cultural Change
20. 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
Applied Anthropology
Armchair Anthropologists
Genotypic Variations
chimpanzee
21. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
African Economic Organization
Specialities
Biosphere
22. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic
Asian farming
Market Exchange
Sanction
Levi-Strauss
23. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Matrilineal Descent
Radcliffe-Brown
Intervention Anthropology
Egypt
24. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics
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25. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups
Reciprocity
Animal domestication
primates
Allele
26. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Egyptology
Superposition
Cross-cousins
Geosphere
27. (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)
Neolithic Period
Dead Sea scrolls
Electromagnetic prospecting
Genetic drift
28. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
polished stone
Writing
Social practices
Superposition
29. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Qualitative Research
Evaluation research
Structural-functional
Allele
30. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Adaptation
Non-warlike people
Divorce
Individual Peculiarities
31. Things all people do the same way (language)
Ethnocentrism
primates
Ralph Lynton
Universalities
32. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Culture
Franz Boas
Egyptology
Cultural Evolution
33. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Nuclear Family
Sapir-Whorf
Feudal System
Levi-Strauss
34. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Status
Monarchy
Neolithic Technology
Egyptology
35. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Radcliffe-Brown
Greeks
Dating methods
Moieties
36. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Potlatch
perforated edges
Genpuku
37. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Cultural Evolution
Mauss
polished stone
Chiefdom
38. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Kindred
Geerts
Specialities
Dead Sea scrolls
39. Thinker: social stratification
Weber
Neanderthals
Family of procreation
Migration of Erectus
40. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Aztec indians
Quinceanera
Franz Boas
Yanomamo
41. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cultivation
Hebrews
Hammurabi
42. 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).
Ethnography
Unit of Kinship
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Nitrogenous Bases
43. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Cargo Cult
gene flow
homonoids
Conspicuous Consumption
44. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Kindred
Morphology
Cargo Cult
Technology development research
45. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
Writing
North American Indians
Hunter/Gatherers
Homonids
46. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Chromosome
Homonids
Dokimasi
Cro-Magnon
47. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Cargo Cult
Mendel's first principle of genetics
classical archaeology
Mendelian population
48. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Phases of rituals
Neolithic Period
Generalized Reciprocity
Crossing over
49. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)
Olduvai Gorge
culture
Monogamy
Magnetic prospecting
50. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Family of procreation
African Economic Organization
Intervention Anthropology
Elsie Parsons