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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 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






2. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation






3. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






4. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law






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






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






15. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






16. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






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






18. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






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






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






21. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)






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






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






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






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






26. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure






27. 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)






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






29. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






30. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






31. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






32. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






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






34. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons






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






36. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






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






39. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements






40. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II






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






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






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






44. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






45. (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






46. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






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






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






50. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms