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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya






4. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






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






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






7. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






15. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure






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






17. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






18. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






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






20. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






21. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






22. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






24. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






25. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






26. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






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






28. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






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






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






31. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)






32. 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.






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






34. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.






35. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






36. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






37. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






38. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains






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






40. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






41. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






42. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.






43. Thinkers: linguistics






44. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






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






46. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






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






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






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






50. 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.