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DSST General Anthropology

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1. (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)






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






3. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement






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






5. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.






6. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






7. Invented smelting of iron






8. Holistic study of humanity.






9. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)






10. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






17. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






18. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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19. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.

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






21. 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






22. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits

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






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






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






26. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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






31. 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.






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






33. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






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






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






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






37. Civilization to invent 'zero'






38. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






40. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






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






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






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






44. 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..






45. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






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






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






48. 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)






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






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