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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






3. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






4. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.






5. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






6. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






12. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful






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






14. Relatives through marriage






15. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'






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






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






18. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






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






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






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






22. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






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






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






25. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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26. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






27. 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.






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






29. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.






30. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)






31. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






32. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






33. Ways to date artifacts






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






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






36. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry






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






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






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






40. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)






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






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






43. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic






44. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






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






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






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






48. Civilization to invent 'zero'






49. Spread of something from one group to another






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