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DSST General Anthropology
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1. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)
Genetic drift
Functionalism
culture
Cultural Ecology
2. Determining the success of a project
DNA
Franz Boas
Malinowski
Evaluation research
3. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic
Mendelian population
carbon-14 dating
polished stone
Gene pool
4. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge
Leakey family
Industrialization
Cultural Anthropology
Cargo Cult
5. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).
Revitalization
Ethnology
Savagery
Culture
6. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.
Cultivation
Family of procreation
Pragmatics
Industrialization
7. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Horticulture
Redistribution
Shaman
Barbarism
8. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Technology development research
Absolute time
Peking Man
Structural-functional
9. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property
Specialities
Archaeology
Feudal System
Myth
10. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.
Adaptation
EB Tylor
husbandry
Upper Paleo period
11. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government
Sumerians
Olduvai Gorge
Geerts
Neolithic Technology
12. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.
Cross-cousins
Sapir-Whorf
prosimians
Class
13. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)
Status
Egyptology
Cargo Cult
Market Exchange
14. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Superposition
Survival
Hittites
Mutagen
15. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains
Semantics
Alternatives
Excavation
Religion
16. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles
Stratigraphy
Unilineal Descent
Alternatives
Egypt
17. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co
Negative Reciprocity
Status
Taboo
Mutagen
18. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.
Tribe
Cognatic Descent
Anthropology
Margaret Mead
19. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)
Unilineal Descent
Caste
Quinceanera
Cro-Magnon
20. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).
Non-warlike people
Stimulus Diffusion
Qualitative Research
Excavation
21. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige
Lower Paleo Period
Conspicuous Consumption
Physical Anthropology
New World monkeys
22. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)
Peking Man
Geosphere
Cargo Cult
Potlatch
23. 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
Geosphere
Armchair Anthropologists
husbandry
Potlatch
24. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
Nuclear Family
Superposition
State
Mendel's second principle of genetics
25. 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).
Cargo Cult
Homonids
Unit of Kinship
Mayan indians
26. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)
Intervention Anthropology
Migration of Erectus
Lower Paleo Period
Cargo Cult
27. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)
mana
Cultural relativism
Africa
Mary Douglas Leakey
28. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Sondages
homonoids
Allele
Pragmatics
29. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.
Gene migration
Physical Anthropology
Olduvai Gorge
mana
30. 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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31. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Biosphere
Java Man
Individual Peculiarities
exogamy
32. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Evaluation research
Electromagnetic prospecting
Hunter/Gatherers
33. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)
Modernization
Pacific indians
Genpuku
DNA
34. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio
Real Culture
Bands & Tribes
Cognatic Descent
Mendelian population
35. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings
Cultural Resource Assessment
pastoralism
primates
Animism
36. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)
prehistoric archaeology
Cognatic Descent
Cultural Evolution
Diffusion
37. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
3 types of excavation
Feudal System
Phonetics
Anthropometry
38. 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.
Structuralism
Condensed Symbol
DNA
Potlatch
39. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.
Functionalism
Alternatives
Nitrogenous Bases
Mutation
40. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations
Cargo Cult
Sapir-Whorf
Radcliffe-Brown
Cultural Anthropology
41. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)
Mesopotamia
Conspicuous Consumption
homonoids
KhoiKhoi
42. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic
Production
Cognatic Descent
Intervention Anthropology
Cultivation
43. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew
Mauss
Quantitative Research
Peking Man
Paleolithic period
44. 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
Benedict
Substantive Economics
Emile Durkheim
Allele
45. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.
Potlatch
primates
Social practices
Australopithecus
46. Invented smelting of iron
phenotype
Biosphere
Hittites
Sanction
47. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom
Mutation
Affinal kin
Evaluation research
Pacific indians
48. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.
Allele frequency
Armchair Anthropologists
Symbol
Levirate
49. Anthropologist: formation of personalities
Benedict
Social practices
Magnetic prospecting
Religion
50. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.
old world monkeys
Phratry
Intervention Anthropology
Superposition