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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






4. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






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






6. 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.






7. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






9. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






10. 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.






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






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






13. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).






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






15. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






16. 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'






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






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






19. 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)






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






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






22. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.






23. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






24. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






25. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






26. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






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






28. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






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






30. 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.






31. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






32. 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)






33. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.






34. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock






35. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






36. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






37. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






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






40. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death






41. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II






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






43. 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






44. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






45. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya






46. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources






47. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






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






49. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






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






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