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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II
Production
Stratigraphy
Revitalization
Peking Man
2. 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.
Franz Boas
Australopithecus
Linguistics
Structuralism
3. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Cross-cousins
gene flow
carbon-14 dating
Stratigraphy
4. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.
Dating methods
Margaret Mead
radiometric dating
Armchair Anthropologists
5. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Geophysical prospecting
3 types of excavation
Clan
Mesolithic Period
6. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Benedict
Referencial Symbol
Australopithecus
Etic perspective
7. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..
Feudal System
Dead Sea scrolls
Social practices
Asian farming
8. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Kroeber
Cargo Cult
perforated edges
Alternatives
9. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Semantics
Unilineal Descent
Morphology
South American indians
10. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture
Cargo Cult
Ritual
Mutation
Myth
11. Family that raised you
Individual Peculiarities
South American indians
Stimulus Diffusion
Family of orientation
12. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Family of procreation
Relative time
Cognatic Descent
Egypt
13. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Rite of passage
culture
Geosphere
Social Class Manifestation
14. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
EB Tylor
Animal domestication
Social Class Manifestation
Gens
15. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Survival
Quinceanera
Mythology
polyandry
16. 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.
Geerts
Universalities
State
Diffusion
17. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Genetic Recombination
Social impact assessment
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Rite of passage
18. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.
European farming
Ziggurat
prehistoric archaeology
Social Darwinism
19. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Qualitative Research
Ethnocentrism
Kindred
Stimulus Diffusion
20. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Diffusion
Egyptology
Gene pool
Adaptation
21. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Franz Boas
Relative time
Social practices
Chromosome
22. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor
Formal Economics
State
chimpanzee
Culture
23. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Functionalism
Cargo Cult
Noosphere
Levi-Strauss
24. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Monarchy
African Economic Organization
Middle Paleo Period
sharp edges
25. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Feudal System
Cultural Anthropology
classical archaeology
26. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
American farming
Levy-Bruhl
Warlike people
Mayan indians
27. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Caste
primates
Taboo
Modernization
28. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Geophysical prospecting
Mendel's first principle of genetics
Unilineal Descent
Crossing over
29. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Homo Erectus
African Economic Organization
Kindred
Olduvai Gorge
30. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Etic perspective
Class
Mesopotamia
Anthropometry
31. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Schliemann
Mesopotamia
Phonetics
Absolute time
32. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death
Neolithic Period
Quantitative Research
Rite of passage
Greeks
33. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
Ralph Lynton
Stimulus Diffusion
Class
34. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Electromagnetic prospecting
Cargo Cult
James George Frazer
Neolithic Technology
35. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Migration of Erectus
Structural-functional
Gene migration
Culture
36. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Diffusion
Social practices
radiometric dating
Cultural relativism
37. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Monarchy
WG Rivers
Stimulus Diffusion
Allele
38. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Franz Boas
Sapir-Whorf
Technology development research
Etic perspective
39. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Culture
Egyptology
Barbarism
Cultural Evolution
40. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Migration of Erectus
Middle east farming
Nitrogenous Bases
Ideal culture
41. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Structural-functional
Cultural relativism
State
Electromagnetic prospecting
42. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful
Legitimacy
Neanderthals
Potlatch
Homo Erectus
43. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.
Mesopotamia
Benedict
Franz Boas
Relative time
44. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Tributary Production
polished stone
Matrilineal Descent
Shaman
45. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Electromagnetic prospecting
Ralph Lynton
Leakey family
Relative time
46. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.
Quantitative Research
Chromosome
Elsie Parsons
Middle Paleo Period
47. 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)
Mutagen
Ritual
Allele
Phratry
48. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Individual Peculiarities
Ethnology
Dating methods
Geophysical prospecting
49. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits
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50. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Franz Boas
Cargo Cult
Africa
Cultural Resource Assessment