General Anthropology DANTES
Number of Questions: 256
ACE Recommended Exam Value: 3 lower-level credit hours
Course Overview
The General Anthropology DSST exam covers the material that would typically be taught in an undergraduate college course on general anthropology. InstantCert's course for
this subject offers a concise but thorough introduction to the main branches of anthropology and the theories and concepts associated with studying human organization and cultures.
Topics Covered in This Course
Anthropology as a Discipline - Branches and Methodologies
Physical anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistics
Archaeology
Various Theoretical Perspectives
Structuralism
Functionalism
Cultural ecology
Cultural evolution
Cultural determinism
Physical Anthropology
Genetic principles
Adaptation, natural selection, variations
Living primates
Fossils
Archaeology
Methodology
Paleolithic and Mesolithic
Neolithic
Development of civilization and urban societies
Nature of Culture
Symbols and symbolic systems
Language, morphology, phonology
Society vs. culture
Cultural variation: universals and alternatives
Real vs. ideal culture
Cultural change – invention, diffusion, innovation
Cultural relativity, ethnocentrism
Etic and emic world views
The individual in culture
The arts
Social Organization
Marriage and family patterns
Kinship and descent groups
Groups and associations
Social stratification
Economic Organization
Subsistence and settlement patterns
Formal and substantive approaches
Communal and private ownership of land, material and nonmaterial property
Reciprocity, redistribution, and market exchange
Production , allocation, use, and consumption of goods and services
Political Organization
Politics, political systems – bands, tribes, chiefdoms, states
Social control – customs, laws, war
Religion
Religious institutions
Beliefs systems, world views
Religious practices and practitioners
Rites of passage
Modernization and Application of Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Cultural survival
Directed cultural change
Customer Test Results for the Anthropology DSST
28 users submitted test results since January, 200925 of those users reported a passing score (89%)
The following are a sample of the test results submitted by members who’ve taken the General Anthropology DSST exam after using InstantCert’s study program. These are unfiltered, unedited results and this list is automatically updated to show the ten most recent results:
| August 7, 2010 | User failed | with a score of | na out of 80 |
| July 23, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 50 out of 80 |
| May 19, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 48 out of 80 |
| April 8, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 51 out of 80 |
| February 26, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 55 out of 80 |
| January 12, 2010 | User passed | with a score of | 61 out of 80 |
| January 6, 2010 | User failed | with a score of | A out of 80 |
| December 15, 2009 | User passed | with a score of | 61 out of 80 |
| November 24, 2009 | User passed | with a score of | 59 out of 80 |
| October 5, 2009 | User passed | with a score of | 61 out of 80 |
Free Sample Of Anthropology DSST Questions
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Related Exams with Overlapping Subject Matter
The General Anthropology DSST exam does not have a significant amount of overlap with any of the other CLEP or DSST exams.