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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew






3. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






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






5. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






6. Man marries widow of his dead brother






7. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






8. Holistic study of humanity.






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






10. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






11. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.






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






13. 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






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






15. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group






16. Thinkers: linguistics






17. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)






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






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






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






21. 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)






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






23. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance






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






25. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






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






27. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






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






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






31. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.






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






33. 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






34. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






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






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






38. 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






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






40. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






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






43. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






44. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






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






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






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






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






49. Shorthand - Morse Code






50. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest