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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 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.






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






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






4. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






5. Invented smelting of iron






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






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






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






9. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.






10. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






11. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons






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






13. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






15. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






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






17. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






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






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






20. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






21. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]






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






23. (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






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






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






26. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






27. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






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






29. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.






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






31. 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.






32. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






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






35. 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






36. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






38. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






39. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)






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






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






42. 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.






43. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






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






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






47. Collecting community data for use by development planners






48. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.






49. Spread of something from one group to another






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