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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Family that raised you






2. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






3. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






4. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.






5. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






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






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






9. Relatives through marriage






10. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.






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






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






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






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






15. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






16. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






17. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).






18. 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


19. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






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






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






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






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






24. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful






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






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






27. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






28. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






29. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






30. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






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






32. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)






33. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.






34. Thinkers: linguistics






35. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






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






37. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






38. 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.






39. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods






40. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






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






43. Ways to date artifacts






44. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.






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






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






47. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






49. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






50. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'