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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. 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).






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






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






5. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






6. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






13. Holistic study of humanity.






14. (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)






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






16. 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..






17. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






19. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






20. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






21. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though






22. Thinker: social stratification






23. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






24. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).






25. 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.






26. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






33. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)






34. 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.






35. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. Invented smelting of iron






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






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






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






45. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






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






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






48. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)






49. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






50. 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