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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






2. Collecting community data for use by development planners






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






4. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






5. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic






6. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.






7. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






8. Holistic study of humanity.






9. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






10. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






11. Ways to date artifacts






12. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






13. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






14. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






15. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






16. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






17. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.






18. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






19. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






20. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co






21. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist






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






23. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






24. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






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






26. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock






27. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






28. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects






29. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






30. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.






31. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






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






33. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






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






35. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






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






37. Traces back to ONE person






38. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






39. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






40. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






41. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






42. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






43. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)






44. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)






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






46. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance






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






48. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






49. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






50. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior