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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






3. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






4. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






5. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.






6. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






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






8. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






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






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






11. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






12. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






13. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote






14. 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)






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






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






17. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






18. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






19. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations






20. 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.






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






22. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






23. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






25. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






26. 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.






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






28. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






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






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






31. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






32. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods






33. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






34. Shorthand - Morse Code






35. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






38. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






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






40. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).






41. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






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






43. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






44. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation






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






46. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






47. 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.






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






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






50. Spread of something from one group to another