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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






4. 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)






5. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






6. Holistic study of humanity.






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






8. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






9. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






11. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. (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)






18. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






19. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






20. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






22. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.






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






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






25. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






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






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






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






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






30. 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)






31. (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






32. 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'






33. Man marries widow of his dead brother






34. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






36. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






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






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






39. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics


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






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






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






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






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






45. (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






46. 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.






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






48. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






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






50. 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