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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons






2. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






3. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






4. Thinker: social stratification






5. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum






6. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






7. 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.






8. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






9. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






10. <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






11. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color






12. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)






13. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






14. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.






15. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






16. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'






17. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






18. 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]






19. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






20. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






21. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






22. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






23. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






24. 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


25. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






26. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






27. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing






28. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






29. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






30. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt






31. 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






32. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






33. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






34. Ways to date artifacts






35. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






36. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






37. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






38. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






39. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






40. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






41. 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).






42. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






43. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group






44. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio






45. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






46. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.






47. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






48. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.






49. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






50. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.