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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group
Kroeber
Individual Peculiarities
Applied Anthropology
Mesopotamia
2. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Egyptology
Ralph Lynton
Non-warlike people
Substantive Economics
3. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance
Yanomamo
Chiefdom
Structural-functional
Rite of passage
4. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
classical archaeology
Levi-Strauss
Animism
Armchair Anthropologists
5. 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.
Modernization
Family of orientation
Structuralism
Writing
6. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
endogamy
Horticulture
Nistri periscope
Homo Erectus
7. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Hittites
African Economic Organization
Linguistics
exogamy
8. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
Ziggurat
Kroeber
Market Exchange
Anthropometry
9. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Religion
Formal Economics
classical archaeology
Family of orientation
10. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.
Savagery
Totem
Phases of rituals
Nistri periscope
11. (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
Hunter/Gatherers
Cultural Ecology
Lineage
Ethnology
12. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).
Gene migration
Crossing over
Cargo Cult
Redistribution
13. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote
Central American indians
Cultural Anthropology
Mayan indians
Levirate
14. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.
Theory of organic evolution
Elsie Parsons
Gene
Diffusion
15. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Caste
Absolute time
Intervention Anthropology
Balanced Reciprocity
16. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Relative time
Anthropoids
Matrilineal Descent
Franz Boas
17. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Dead Sea scrolls
Assyrians
Java Man
Directed Cultural Change
18. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden
Kroeber
Symbol
Weber
Animism
19. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.
Functionalism
Ethnography
Mesopotamia
Upper Paleo period
20. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Moieties
Mutagen
Myth
Biosphere
21. 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
Animal domestication
Mayan indians
Yanomamo
22. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Geophysical prospecting
Referencial Symbol
Sondages
Ethnology
23. Traces back to ONE person
Monarchy
Lineage
European farming
Theory of organic evolution
24. Holistic study of humanity.
Mutagen
Symbol
Anthropology
Industrialization
25. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.
Real Culture
Mayan indians
Lineage
Chiefdom
26. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.
Ziggurat
Conspicuous Consumption
Qualitative Research
Gene
27. 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.
Archaeology
Syntax
McLennan
Civilization
28. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Africa
Mendel's third principle of genetics
Syntax
Superposition
29. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.
American farming
polyandry
Ethnocentrism
Emic perspective
30. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]
Allele
Cultural relativism
Nistri periscope
Franz Boas
31. 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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32. 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
Genotypic Variations
Agriculture
Hammurabi
Shaman
33. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Cultural relativism
Syntax
Levi-Strauss
Mutation
34. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Kinship
DNA
Religion
Natural selection
35. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language
Linguistics
Technology development research
Balanced Reciprocity
Electromagnetic prospecting
36. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.
Modernization
Myth
gene flow
Religion
37. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Industrialization
Specialities
Stimulus Diffusion
Mythology
38. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.
mana
Homonids
Neanderthals
Hammurabi
39. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.
Balanced Reciprocity
Assyrians
Magnetic prospecting
Migration of Erectus
40. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)
Natural selection
Barbarism
Levy-Bruhl
Social impact assessment
41. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Ritual
Cultivation
Crossing over
homonoids
42. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Central American indians
Phonetics
Adaptation
Magnetic prospecting
43. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Monarchy
primates
Formal Economics
Cargo Cult
44. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Phratry
Cultural Ecology
James George Frazer
Stratigraphy
45. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources
Divorce
Band
Egyptology
Africa
46. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).
Etic perspective
Agriculture
International Development
chimpanzee
47. 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).
Modernization
Unit of Kinship
Middle Paleo Period
North American Indians
48. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science
Homonids
Birth of Anthropology
Middle east farming
perforated edges
49. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Ideal culture
Nuclear Family
Cargo Cult
Genetic drift
50. 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
Australopithecus
Intervention Anthropology
Taboo