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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic






6. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






7. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II






8. 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






9. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






10. New family you form when you marry and have children.






11. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






12. Determining the success of a project






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






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






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






16. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






17. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






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






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






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






21. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






22. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






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






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






25. 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.






26. Holistic study of humanity.






27. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist






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






29. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






30. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






31. (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)






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






33. 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'






34. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






35. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






36. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






37. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






38. Relatives through marriage






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






40. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






42. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






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






50. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.