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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Middle east farming
WG Rivers
perforated edges
South American indians
2. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Taboo
Cultural Evolution
Elsie Parsons
Physical Anthropology
3. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic
Geerts
Mayan indians
Neolithic Technology
Animal domestication
4. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Mesolithic Period
Middle Paleo Period
Kinship
Animal domestication
5. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture
Social practices
Mendel's first principle of genetics
sharp edges
Peking Man
6. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Birth of Anthropology
Balanced Reciprocity
Cultural Anthropology
Functionalism
7. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Radcliffe-Brown
Technology development research
Mesopotamia
Linguistics
8. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Quantitative Research
culture
Pragmatics
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
9. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Cargo Cult
Stratigraphy
Genpuku
Nistri periscope
10. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Functionalism
KhoiKhoi
chimpanzee
11. All the knowledge and values shared by a society
culture
Formal Economics
polyandry
Crossing over
12. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Bronze Age
Superposition
Mutation
Adaptation
13. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Catal Huyak
Family of orientation
Radcliffe-Brown
Allele
14. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Rite of passage
Armchair Anthropologists
Magnetic prospecting
Anthropometry
15. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Substantive Economics
Mutation
Emic perspective
Status
16. 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.
State
homonoids
Petrie
Migration of Erectus
17. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Policy Research
Kinship
Unilineal Descent
Anthropoids
18. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Culture
Theory of organic evolution
Linguistics
Cognatic Descent
19. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Social impact assessment
Genpuku
Anthropoids
Magnetic prospecting
20. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Benedict
Cro-Magnon
Syntax
Cultural Anthropology
21. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Gene pool
primates
Caste
Matrilineal Descent
22. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Sanction
Mendelian population
carbon-14 dating
Religion
23. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
Kinship
Dead Sea scrolls
Genotype
24. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
Neanderthals
Civilization
Affinal kin
James George Frazer
25. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect
Genetic drift
Weber
Pragmatics
African Economic Organization
26. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Diffusion
Functionalism
Cargo Cult
Neolithic Technology
27. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Neolithic Technology
Migration of Erectus
Superposition
Directed Cultural Change
28. 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)
Gene
Social practices
Divorce
Quinceanera
29. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Market Exchange
War
Anthropometry
Ralph Lynton
30. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)
Phonology
Structural-functional
Quinceanera
Pragmatics
31. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Franz Boas
Family of procreation
polished stone
Anthropometry
32. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction
Linguistics
Sanction
Potlatch
Allele
33. 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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34. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
New World monkeys
Assyrians
Mesolithic Period
Chromosome
35. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Greeks
State
Neolithic Technology
Austrailia indians
36. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
3 types of excavation
Writing
chimpanzee
Family of orientation
37. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic
Middle east farming
Ethnocentrism
Kindred
Assyrians
38. 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'
International Development
Rite of passage
Cargo Cult
Homo Habilis
39. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
classical archaeology
Sapir-Whorf
polyandry
Non-warlike people
40. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Leakey family
Affinal kin
husbandry
41. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs
prosimians
Upper Paleo period
Magnetic prospecting
Religion
42. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies
Mesolithic Period
American farming
Allele frequency
Dating methods
43. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)
Ziggurat
Radcliffe-Brown
Excavation
Egypt
44. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Genotypic Variations
Gene pool
Pacific indians
Levi-Strauss
45. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)
Assyrians
Central American indians
endogamy
Catal Huyak
46. 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
Hunter/Gatherers
Genetic Recombination
Neanderthals
Formal Economics
47. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Middle east farming
Chiefdom
Diffusion
Status
48. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Middle east farming
Paleolithic period
Animal domestication
husbandry
49. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Nitrogenous Bases
Linguistics
New World monkeys
Austrailia indians
50. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
State
Cultural relativism
Leakey family
Mutation