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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






4. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






5. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






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






7. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






8. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






9. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.

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10. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






18. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






19. 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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20. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.






21. 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.






22. 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]






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






24. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






25. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






26. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)






27. Relatives through marriage






28. 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






29. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons






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






31. Ways to date artifacts






32. Holistic study of humanity.






33. 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).






34. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.






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






36. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






37. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






38. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






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






41. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.






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






43. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government






44. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






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






46. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






47. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






48. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






49. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar






50. (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