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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)






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






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






5. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






6. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






7. 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.






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. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






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






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






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






13. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






14. 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






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






16. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






17. 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.






18. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.






19. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






20. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic






21. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






22. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






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






25. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)






26. (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)






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






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






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






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






31. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






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






33. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






40. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






41. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.






42. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups






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






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






45. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






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






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






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






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