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DSST General Anthropology
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1. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
perforated edges
Kinship
phenotype
Crossing over
2. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Radcliffe-Brown
Mutation
radiometric dating
Cro-Magnon
3. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values
Intervention Anthropology
Kluckhohn
Noosphere
Applied Anthropology
4. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)
Sanction
Animal domestication
endogamy
Neolithic Period
5. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.
Relative time
Ethnocentrism
Sondages
Yanomamo
6. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).
WG Rivers
EB Tylor
International Development
Directed Cultural Change
7. 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.
Moieties
Taboo
Anthropoids
Armchair Anthropologists
8. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Cro-Magnon
Leakey family
Specialities
Intervention Anthropology
9. Thinker: social stratification
Geophysical prospecting
Gens
Armchair Anthropologists
Weber
10. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Homonids
husbandry
Industrialization
Redistribution
11. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion
North American Indians
Legitimacy
Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
12. 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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13. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.
Levi-Strauss
Relative time
Geophysical prospecting
gene flow
14. 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.
Civilization
homonoids
Aztec indians
Potlatch
15. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified
Formal Economics
Cargo Cult
Generalized Reciprocity
Anthropology
16. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
prehistoric archaeology
pastoralism
Dokimasi
endogamy
17. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Anthropology
Archaeology
Anthropometry
radiometric dating
18. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.
Ziggurat
Dating methods
Levy-Bruhl
Religion
19. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya
Ritual
Negative Reciprocity
Band
Policy Research
20. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Cultural Evolution
Individual Peculiarities
Family of orientation
Sapir-Whorf
21. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)
Austrailia indians
Genotypic Variations
Cultivation
Kroeber
22. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful
South American indians
Noosphere
Yanomamo Feasting
Greeks
23. Man marries widow of his dead brother
Levirate
Hunter/Gatherers
Mayan indians
Mythology
24. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Cargo Cult
Malinowski
Writing
Margaret Mead
25. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.
Poy Tang Lon
Geosphere
Redistribution
Kindred
26. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por
Taboo
Upper Paleo period
Leakey family
Phratry
27. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).
Unilineal Descent
Phases of rituals
Religion
Linguistics
28. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry
Middle east farming
Industrialization
Gene migration
Lower Paleo Period
29. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.
Phonology
Migration of Erectus
Adaptation
Shaman
30. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Polygamy
Anthropometry
Rite of passage
Java Man
31. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.
Olduvai Gorge
Formal Economics
DNA
phenotype
32. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
Geerts
Cargo Cult
Yanomamo
Kinship
33. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.
old world monkeys
Franz Boas
Petrie
chimpanzee
34. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy
Chromosome
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Matrilineal Descent
Sanction
35. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Applied Anthropology
Genotypic Variations
chimpanzee
36. 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.
International Development
Relative time
State
sharp edges
37. 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.
homonoids
Social Darwinism
Anthropometry
International Development
38. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -
Hebrews
Dead Sea scrolls
Cultural Anthropology
Java Man
39. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
Margaret Mead
Horticulture
Genetic Recombination
Electromagnetic prospecting
40. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Stratigraphy
pastoralism
prehistoric archaeology
Nuclear Family
41. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.
old world monkeys
Levy-Bruhl
Olduvai Gorge
Hittites
42. 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
Mauss
Class
Geophysical prospecting
Natural selection
43. Invented smelting of iron
Horticulture
Social impact assessment
Hittites
Feudal System
44. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.
Geerts
Modernization
Agriculture
Etic perspective
45. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Alternatives
Bands & Tribes
Industrialization
Dead Sea scrolls
46. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Bronze Age
Mauss
Australopithecus
Animism
47. 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]
Myth
old world monkeys
Savagery
Franz Boas
48. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.
Matrilineal Descent
carbon-14 dating
Levi-Strauss
Cross-cousins
49. 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).
sharp edges
Unit of Kinship
Mesopotamia
Caste
50. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Pacific indians
platyrrhini
International Development
Divorce