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DSST General Anthropology
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1. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)
Allele frequency
Revitalization
exogamy
Matrilineal Descent
2. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites
Genotypic Variations
Universalities
Monarchy
Matrilineal Descent
3. 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)
Stimulus Diffusion
Malinowski
chimpanzee
Sondages
4. Holistic study of humanity.
Social Class Manifestation
Social practices
Anthropology
Structuralism
5. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups
Anthropometry
Universalities
Religion
Bands & Tribes
6. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.
Phonology
Savagery
Yanomamo Feasting
Morphology
7. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color
Elsie Parsons
Allele
homonoids
Cultural relativism
8. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)
Religion
Savagery
Cognatic Descent
New World monkeys
9. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)
Unilineal Descent
Phonetics
Anthropometry
exogamy
10. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation
pastoralism
Ethnography
Levy-Bruhl
Australopithecus
11. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance
Central American indians
Shaman
Redistribution
Kindred
12. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.
Geerts
Archaeology
WG Rivers
Mythology
13. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)
Dokimasi
Peking Man
Cultural relativism
Theory of organic evolution
14. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.
Cultural Anthropology
Chromosome
Neanderthals
Australopithecus
15. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture
Directed Cultural Change
Ethnology
pastoralism
Weber
16. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state
Relative time
Individual Peculiarities
Gens
Chiefdom
17. 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
Allele
endogamy
Physical Anthropology
Peking Man
18. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)
Mythology
Mauss
phenotype
Sapir-Whorf
19. Invented smelting of iron
EB Tylor
Linguistics
Radcliffe-Brown
Hittites
20. Ways to date artifacts
Dokimasi
Social impact assessment
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Dating methods
21. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons
Nistri periscope
Negative Reciprocity
Religion
Adaptation
22. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)
Sanction
Physical Anthropology
EB Tylor
Polygamy
23. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms
Etic perspective
Ideal culture
Technology development research
Mary Douglas Leakey
24. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku
Noosphere
South American indians
Modernization
Chiefdom
25. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though
WG Rivers
Production
Structural-functional
Chiefdom
26. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum
radiometric dating
Chiefdom
Cargo Cult
Assyrians
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.
McLennan
European farming
Reciprocity
Civilization
28. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble
Lineage
Unit of Kinship
Shaman
Civilization
29. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)
Dead Sea scrolls
Franz Boas
Divorce
Band
30. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.
Neanderthals
Migration of Erectus
Crossing over
Horticulture
31. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel
Mutagen
Middle east farming
Animal domestication
Quinceanera
32. Thinkers: linguistics
Cultural Resource Assessment
European farming
Marx - Freud - & Saussure
Homo Erectus
33. 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
Genetic drift
Lower Paleo Period
Ideal culture
WG Rivers
34. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.
Egyptology
Genotype
Industrialization
Genpuku
35. Collecting community data for use by development planners
Emile Durkheim
Social impact assessment
North American Indians
Dating methods
36. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.
Upper Paleo period
prehistoric archaeology
Malinowski
Theory of organic evolution
37. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Unit of Kinship
Dead Sea scrolls
exogamy
Clan
38. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding
Feudal System
husbandry
Functionalism
radiometric dating
39. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology
Egypt
Phratry
Mendel's second principle of genetics
Technology development research
40. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.
perforated edges
Ziggurat
Cross-cousins
Mutation
41. The archaeology of ancient Egypt
Egyptology
Physical Anthropology
Nuclear Family
Pacific indians
42. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.
Franz Boas
Australopithecus
Neanderthals
Ralph Lynton
43. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing
Gene
Chiefdom
Intervention Anthropology
Pacific indians
44. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification
Horticulture
Unit of Kinship
Rite of passage
Social Class Manifestation
45. New family you form when you marry and have children.
Middle Paleo Period
Tributary Production
Family of procreation
Clan
46. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.
African Economic Organization
Survival
Cultural Resource Assessment
Electromagnetic prospecting
47. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).
Gens
Non-warlike people
Survival
Africa
48. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption
Homo Habilis
Generalized Reciprocity
Kinship
Yanomamo
49. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'
Geosphere
Caste
Ziggurat
Poy Tang Lon
50. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family
Hittites
Olduvai Gorge
Nuclear Family
Weber
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