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DSST General Anthropology

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1. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.






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






3. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society






4. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






5. Spread of something from one group to another






6. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






7. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






8. 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).






9. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement






10. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)






11. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






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






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






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






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






17. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






18. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.






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






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






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






22. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






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






24. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).






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






26. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






27. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






28. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture






29. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






30. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






32. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.






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






34. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum






35. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.






36. Thinker: social stratification






37. 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






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






39. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






45. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






46. 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)






47. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






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






49. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






50. 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