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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






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






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






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






6. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






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






9. 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)






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






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






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






13. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






14. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






15. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.






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






17. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






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






19. (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)






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






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






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






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






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






25. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






26. 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.






27. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






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






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






30. Traces back to ONE person






31. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






38. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






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






40. 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.






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






42. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






45. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






46. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons






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






48. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






49. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






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