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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






3. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)






4. 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.






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






6. Collecting community data for use by development planners






7. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)






8. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.






9. 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






10. 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.






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






12. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.






13. (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)






14. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






15. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor






16. 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)






17. Traces back to ONE person






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






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






20. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






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






22. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.






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






24. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






25. 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






26. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






27. 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'






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






29. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






30. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






32. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






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






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






36. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






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






38. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.






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






40. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






41. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






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






44. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic






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






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






47. 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.






48. Invented smelting of iron






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






50. 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)