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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






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






3. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.






4. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






5. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






6. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture






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






8. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por






9. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






10. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






11. 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






12. 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).






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






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






15. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.






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






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






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






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






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






21. (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






22. (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






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






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






25. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






26. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






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






28. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.






29. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)






30. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






31. 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






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






33. Thinker: social stratification






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






35. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






36. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






37. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.






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






39. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.






40. Invented smelting of iron






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






42. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






43. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






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






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






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






47. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






48. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






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






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