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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 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.






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






3. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






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






5. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






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






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






8. Things all people do the same way (language)






9. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.






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






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






12. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






13. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






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






15. Traces back to ONE person






16. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






17. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






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






19. Spread of something from one group to another






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






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






22. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






23. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.






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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






30. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






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






32. (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)






33. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






34. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt






35. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock






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






41. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






42. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.






43. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






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






46. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






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






48. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).






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






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