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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
Tribe
Cargo Cult
Assyrians
Mutagen
2. 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
platyrrhini
Balanced Reciprocity
Genetic drift
Potlatch
3. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic
American farming
Birth of Anthropology
platyrrhini
Nitrogenous Bases
4. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Reciprocity
Savagery
Legitimacy
Qualitative Research
5. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
culture
Middle east farming
pastoralism
Conspicuous Consumption
6. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
New World monkeys
Theory of organic evolution
McLennan
Dokimasi
7. 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
Redistribution
Animal domestication
Peking Man
EB Tylor
8. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.
Noosphere
Phratry
Egyptian diffusion
North American Indians
9. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Ethnology
Sapir-Whorf
War
Greeks
10. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Levy-Bruhl
Armchair Anthropologists
European farming
Taboo
11. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
Homonids
Levy-Bruhl
Stratigraphy
Quantitative Research
12. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Kluckhohn
Peking Man
Syntax
Caste
13. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Symbol
Neolithic Technology
Austrailia indians
Religion
14. Relatives through marriage
Noosphere
Affinal kin
Geophysical prospecting
Catal Huyak
15. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations
Affinal kin
exogamy
Agriculture
Nitrogenous Bases
16. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.
Mauss
Evaluation research
Paleolithic period
Structural-functional
17. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Elsie Parsons
Cross-cousins
Status
Phratry
18. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Anthropoids
Catal Huyak
Emic perspective
Pragmatics
19. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Theory of organic evolution
Catal Huyak
Social Darwinism
Technology development research
20. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Modernization
Magnetic prospecting
Chiefdom
Directed Cultural Change
21. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Ritual
Formal Economics
Sanction
Genetic Recombination
22. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Religion
Catal Huyak
Quinceanera
Archaeology
23. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
Production
Reciprocity
Anthropometry
Alternatives
24. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Hammurabi
Cro-Magnon
New World monkeys
State
25. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Ideal culture
Monarchy
Sumerians
Directed Cultural Change
26. 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.
Status
Genotypic Variations
Revitalization
Physical Anthropology
27. Invented smelting of iron
Hittites
WG Rivers
carbon-14 dating
Social practices
28. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Alternatives
Monarchy
Tribe
Bands & Tribes
29. 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.
Birth of Anthropology
Egyptian diffusion
homonoids
South American indians
30. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Allele
chimpanzee
Neolithic Period
Franz Boas
31. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Bands & Tribes
Directed Cultural Change
Noosphere
EB Tylor
32. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Technology development research
Leakey family
Cargo Cult
WG Rivers
33. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome
Non-warlike people
Assyrians
Taboo
classical archaeology
34. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Weber
Armchair Anthropologists
Phonology
babylonians
35. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Intervention Anthropology
Geophysical prospecting
mana
Substantive Economics
36. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
Stimulus Diffusion
Balanced Reciprocity
Natural selection
Yanomamo Feasting
37. Ways to date artifacts
Sapir-Whorf
Caste
Dating methods
Neanderthals
38. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's
Cargo Cult
Ritual
Birth of Anthropology
Schliemann
39. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Catal Huyak
Mary Douglas Leakey
Real Culture
Pragmatics
40. 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)
Phratry
Gene
Cultivation
Geosphere
41. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Anthropometry
Religion
Allele frequency
Religion
42. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Horticulture
Cultural Resource Assessment
Java Man
Family of orientation
43. Family that raised you
Mesopotamia
Family of orientation
Geosphere
Migration of Erectus
44. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
3 types of excavation
Hunter/Gatherers
Phases of rituals
Quantitative Research
45. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Social impact assessment
Natural selection
Non-warlike people
Pragmatics
46. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Chiefdom
primates
Noosphere
Nitrogenous Bases
47. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
European farming
Real Culture
Levirate
Cognatic Descent
48. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
chimpanzee
Social impact assessment
Mesopotamia
Genpuku
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
Modernization
Polygamy
Archaeology
Greeks
50. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Formal Economics
Mary Douglas Leakey
Pacific indians
phenotype