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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.






2. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






3. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






4. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.






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






6. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






7. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations






8. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






9. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)






10. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






11. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






12. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






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






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






15. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






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






17. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.






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






19. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






20. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






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






22. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






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






24. 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.






25. Collecting community data for use by development planners






26. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






28. 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.






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






30. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






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






32. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






33. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






34. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor






35. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.






36. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






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






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






39. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






40. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden






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






42. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






44. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






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






46. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements






47. 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






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






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






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