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DSST General Anthropology

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1. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden






2. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






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






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






5. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






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






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






8. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






9. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






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






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






12. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color






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






14. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum






15. 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)






16. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic






17. Holistic study of humanity.






18. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






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






20. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






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






22. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






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






24. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






25. 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.






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






27. 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






28. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






29. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






30. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






31. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






32. 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






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






34. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






35. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).






36. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






38. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






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






40. New family you form when you marry and have children.






41. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






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






43. Family that raised you






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






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






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






47. (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






48. 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






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






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







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