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DSST General Anthropology
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1. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
prosimians
Fieldwork
radiometric dating
Ethnocentrism
2. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Emic perspective
Myth
polished stone
Schliemann
3. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair
Kindred
Geophysical prospecting
Kinship
Genpuku
4. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Family of procreation
McLennan
Schliemann
Tributary Production
5. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.
Balanced Reciprocity
Yanomamo Feasting
Negative Reciprocity
North American Indians
6. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)
Ralph Lynton
Unilineal Descent
Paleolithic period
primates
7. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Real Culture
Leakey family
Levi-Strauss
Gene migration
8. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Java Man
Etic perspective
Chromosome
DNA
9. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Shaman
Chromosome
Anthropoids
Monarchy
10. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).
Warlike people
Crossing over
Assyrians
Social practices
11. The study of the different sounds employed by language.
Phonetics
North American Indians
Totem
Franz Boas
12. 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.
State
Qualitative Research
Bronze Age
Aztec indians
13. 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).
Unit of Kinship
Fieldwork
Cargo Cult
Aztec indians
14. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Substantive Economics
endogamy
Social Darwinism
Levi-Strauss
15. Shorthand - Morse Code
Totem
Archaeology
Cross-cousins
Condensed Symbol
16. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Egypt
Natural selection
Quinceanera
Elsie Parsons
17. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Mesolithic Period
Condensed Symbol
Savagery
gene flow
18. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Band
Revitalization
North American Indians
Policy Research
19. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Dating methods
Franz Boas
Barbarism
Hunter/Gatherers
20. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Chiefdom
Absolute time
Weber
Greeks
21. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Mythology
Pragmatics
Crossing over
22. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
Symbol
Kroeber
Barbarism
WG Rivers
23. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Quantitative Research
Market Exchange
Poy Tang Lon
Divorce
24. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
Conspicuous Consumption
Semantics
Myth
Unilineal Descent
25. 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
Phonetics
Potlatch
Yanomamo
Conspicuous Consumption
26. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Phases of rituals
babylonians
Central American indians
Real Culture
27. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Revitalization
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Sapir-Whorf
Social Darwinism
28. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian
North American Indians
Genotype
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Assyrians
29. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Paleolithic period
Allele
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Ziggurat
30. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Gene migration
Ziggurat
Generalized Reciprocity
Africa
31. Invented smelting of iron
Egyptian diffusion
Unit of Kinship
Hittites
Intervention Anthropology
32. Planned - rescue - and accidental.
Industrialization
Petrie
Greeks
3 types of excavation
33. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Technology development research
African Economic Organization
Dead Sea scrolls
Chromosome
34. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status
Status
Absolute time
Gene
Phonetics
35. (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
Schliemann
Dead Sea scrolls
Gens
Hunter/Gatherers
36. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
Aztec indians
Unit of Kinship
exogamy
Clan
37. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
polyandry
Genotype
Writing
exogamy
38. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)
Allele frequency
Genetic Recombination
Cognatic Descent
Cultural Resource Assessment
39. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior
Family of procreation
Culture
Cultural Anthropology
Egyptology
40. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.
European farming
Noosphere
Catal Huyak
Mesopotamia
41. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Rite of passage
Mesopotamia
Gene
exogamy
42. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic
Class
McLennan
Genetic drift
perforated edges
43. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
Generalized Reciprocity
Mary Douglas Leakey
Cultural Anthropology
Legitimacy
44. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Clan
Directed Cultural Change
Moieties
Unilineal Descent
45. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality
DNA
Mendel's third principle of genetics
phenotype
Margaret Mead
46. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.
Magnetic prospecting
Bands & Tribes
Condensed Symbol
Warlike people
47. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Armchair Anthropologists
Relative time
Syntax
Savagery
48. 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
Mauss
Genotypic Variations
prehistoric archaeology
Archaeology
49. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)
Etic perspective
Genetic drift
Cross-cousins
Gens
50. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
mana
Austrailia indians
Nistri periscope
Egyptian diffusion