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DSST General Anthropology
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1. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.
Moieties
Anthropometry
Anthropoids
Neolithic Period
2. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.
Geerts
Shaman
Aztec indians
Mendelian population
3. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Anthropology
Geophysical prospecting
Cargo Cult
Savagery
4. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Franz Boas
EB Tylor
Matrilineal Descent
polished stone
5. Invented smelting of iron
Genpuku
Hittites
phenotype
Malinowski
6. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Allele frequency
Potlatch
Quantitative Research
Etic perspective
7. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.
Cro-Magnon
homonoids
Divorce
Rite of passage
8. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Theory of organic evolution
Anthropology
Stratigraphy
Phonology
9. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
old world monkeys
Market Exchange
Cargo Cult
Chiefdom
10. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Tribe
Neolithic Technology
Gene migration
Social impact assessment
11. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc
Cultural Ecology
Nistri periscope
Individual Peculiarities
Hittites
12. 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).
Genpuku
Adaptation
Unit of Kinship
Moieties
13. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.
Adaptation
Mesopotamia
Potlatch
Elsie Parsons
14. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)
Social Darwinism
Status
New World monkeys
European farming
15. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Franz Boas
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Diffusion
16. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
pastoralism
Nuclear Family
Genotype
State
17. 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..
Hammurabi
Dead Sea scrolls
Neolithic Technology
Greeks
18. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.
Franz Boas
Referencial Symbol
Nitrogenous Bases
Potlatch
19. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Archaeology
Sapir-Whorf
Australopithecus
Hunter/Gatherers
20. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Phonetics
Legitimacy
Weber
Crossing over
21. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Caste
Asian farming
Cognatic Descent
Pacific indians
22. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)
Allele frequency
culture
sharp edges
James George Frazer
23. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic
Anthropology
sharp edges
Etic perspective
Production
24. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
State
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Cultivation
Dokimasi
25. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
EB Tylor
Archaeology
Absolute time
Structuralism
26. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.
Genotype
Mesopotamia
Migration of Erectus
Superposition
27. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Ethnology
Mutation
South American indians
Culture
28. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Emic perspective
Caste
Egypt
Lineage
29. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
Chiefdom
Australopithecus
exogamy
Quantitative Research
30. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society
Qualitative Research
Mauss
Etic perspective
Moieties
31. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)
Totem
WG Rivers
Syntax
Condensed Symbol
32. 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)
Ritual
polyandry
Assyrians
Hebrews
33. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys
Substantive Economics
platyrrhini
Functionalism
Natural selection
34. 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
Kinship
Polygamy
Birth of Anthropology
Potlatch
35. Thinkers: linguistics
Armchair Anthropologists
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Peking Man
Animal domestication
36. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
chimpanzee
Superposition
Bands & Tribes
WG Rivers
37. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Class
Noosphere
Africa
KhoiKhoi
38. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)
Elsie Parsons
Homo Erectus
Cultural relativism
Diffusion
39. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
old world monkeys
platyrrhini
Unilineal Descent
40. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Gene
Quinceanera
Potlatch
Geerts
41. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
African Economic Organization
Neanderthals
Ralph Lynton
42. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Sondages
South American indians
Mesolithic Period
3 types of excavation
43. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population
Austrailia indians
Gene pool
Weber
KhoiKhoi
44. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.
pastoralism
Gene
Greeks
Ethnocentrism
45. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel
Mesopotamia
Functionalism
Natural selection
Fieldwork
46. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Franz Boas
Anthropology
Animal domestication
47. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Cross-cousins
Survival
Caste
Nistri periscope
48. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Class
Band
Quantitative Research
Social impact assessment
49. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure
Quantitative Research
Chiefdom
Functionalism
European farming
50. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Clan
Cultivation
Hittites