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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
babylonians
Peking Man
Policy Research
Intervention Anthropology
2. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
Theory of organic evolution
Stratigraphy
Franz Boas
Technology development research
3. 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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4. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Relative time
Mutagen
Quantitative Research
5. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.
Tribe
Myth
Leakey family
Ethnology
6. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.
State
Quantitative Research
Theory of organic evolution
Structuralism
7. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs
Myth
Animism
Yanomamo
Emic perspective
8. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
Cultural Anthropology
Olduvai Gorge
Mythology
Social Class Manifestation
9. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
International Development
Conspicuous Consumption
Excavation
Margaret Mead
10. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement
Electromagnetic prospecting
mana
Class
Individual Peculiarities
11. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Egyptian diffusion
Affinal kin
South American indians
Egyptology
12. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
Chiefdom
phenotype
Africa
Anthropology
13. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
3 types of excavation
Legitimacy
Geerts
Phonetics
14. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)
Etic perspective
Myth
Gene
Intervention Anthropology
15. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
phenotype
Non-warlike people
Production
Cargo Cult
16. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Social Darwinism
Syntax
Genotype
Ethnocentrism
17. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m
DNA
gene flow
Ethnocentrism
Substantive Economics
18. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.
Genetic Recombination
Middle east farming
Writing
Ideal culture
19. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements
Absolute time
Emile Durkheim
Band
Yanomamo
20. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Unilineal Descent
mana
polished stone
Cargo Cult
21. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Aztec indians
Religion
Savagery
Production
22. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons
Dating methods
Crossing over
Anthropology
Bronze Age
23. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Referencial Symbol
Neolithic Technology
Social Darwinism
Feudal System
24. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility
Modernization
Individual Peculiarities
Affinal kin
Stratigraphy
25. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.
James George Frazer
Crossing over
husbandry
Monogamy
26. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Cargo Cult
Functionalism
Moieties
International Development
27. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet
phenotype
Aztec indians
Animism
polished stone
28. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC
Petrie
Individual Peculiarities
Taboo
Neolithic Technology
29. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war
War
Conspicuous Consumption
Sanction
Reciprocity
30. Determining the success of a project
Diffusion
War
Evaluation research
pastoralism
31. Invented smelting of iron
polyandry
Hittites
Physical Anthropology
Genotype
32. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.
pastoralism
Horticulture
State
Phases of rituals
33. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)
homonoids
Referencial Symbol
Tributary Production
Formal Economics
34. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Pragmatics
Unit of Kinship
Gens
Horticulture
35. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.
Agriculture
Evaluation research
Geophysical prospecting
Central American indians
36. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
McLennan
Ethnocentrism
Olduvai Gorge
37. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem
Intervention Anthropology
Social Class Manifestation
Mary Douglas Leakey
Radcliffe-Brown
38. Relatives through marriage
Bands & Tribes
Gene pool
Affinal kin
platyrrhini
39. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)
Market Exchange
Cargo Cult
carbon-14 dating
Hebrews
40. Things all people do the same way (language)
Aztec indians
EB Tylor
Civilization
Universalities
41. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables
3 types of excavation
Redistribution
Industrialization
Cargo Cult
42. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)
Ethnocentrism
Kinship
Dead Sea scrolls
Hunter/Gatherers
43. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan
Cultural relativism
Revitalization
Policy Research
Clan
44. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.
3 types of excavation
Egyptology
Archaeology
Semantics
45. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Kindred
Status
Production
Hammurabi
46. 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.
Social impact assessment
Armchair Anthropologists
Mythology
Status
47. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Legitimacy
Ritual
Sumerians
husbandry
48. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).
Bands & Tribes
Cargo Cult
African Economic Organization
Electromagnetic prospecting
49. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Allele
American farming
Emile Durkheim
Homo Erectus
50. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
Mutagen
Stimulus Diffusion
Egyptology
Phonetics