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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






3. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






4. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






6. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






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






8. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






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






10. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






12. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies






13. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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


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






16. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






18. Ways to date artifacts






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






20. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






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






22. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar






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






24. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society






25. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language






26. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






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






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






29. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic






30. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






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






32. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






38. Thinker: social stratification






39. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






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






41. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






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






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






44. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






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






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. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






48. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






49. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






50. Spread of something from one group to another