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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.






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






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






6. 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






7. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






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






10. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).






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






12. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






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






14. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






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






16. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






17. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






18. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






19. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups






20. 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






21. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]






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






23. 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






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






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






27. 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).






28. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.

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29. Invented smelting of iron






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






31. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






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






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






34. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






35. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






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






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






38. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






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






40. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






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






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






43. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






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






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






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






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






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






49. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.






50. 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'







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