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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)






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






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






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






6. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






7. 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)






8. Invented smelting of iron






9. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






10. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






12. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






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






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






15. Traces back to ONE person






16. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






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






18. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






19. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic






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






21. 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






22. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






23. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government






24. 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






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






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






27. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






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






29. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co






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






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






32. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






33. 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






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






35. Thinkers: linguistics






36. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.






37. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






38. 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






39. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya






40. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






42. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






44. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science






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






46. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






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






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






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






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







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