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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






2. 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

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






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






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






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






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






8. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






9. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






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






11. Things all people do the same way (language)






12. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






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






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






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






16. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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17. Thinker: social stratification






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






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






20. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).






21. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death






22. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble






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






24. 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






25. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






26. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






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






28. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






29. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew






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






31. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote






32. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)






33. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.






34. Invented smelting of iron






35. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






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






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






38. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






39. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.






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






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






42. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






43. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though






44. 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)






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






46. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect






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






48. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






49. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






50. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.







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