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DSST General Anthropology

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1. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






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






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






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






5. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






6. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






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






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






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






10. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations






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






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






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






14. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






15. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






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






17. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






18. 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






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






20. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects






21. 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.






22. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






23. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






24. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






26. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.






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






28. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






29. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains






30. 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.






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






32. 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'






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






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






35. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.






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






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






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






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






41. 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)






42. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






43. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.






44. (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)






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






46. 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






47. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






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






49. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






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