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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Spread of something from one group to another






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






3. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






4. (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)






5. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.






6. Family that raised you






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






8. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






10. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables






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






12. 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






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






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






15. Thinker: social stratification






16. 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).






17. 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






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






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






20. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






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






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






23. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.






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






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






26. 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)






27. Thinkers: linguistics






28. 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..






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






30. 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






31. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






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






33. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.






34. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co






35. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






36. 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.






37. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






38. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






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






40. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






42. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






43. 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.






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






45. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.






46. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






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






48. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






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






50. Invented smelting of iron