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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






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






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






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






6. (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






7. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






8. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble






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






10. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.






11. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.






12. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color






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






14. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






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






16. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






17. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.






18. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






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






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






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






22. New family you form when you marry and have children.






23. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






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






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






26. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






31. Traces back to ONE person






32. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






33. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






34. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






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






36. 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






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






38. Relatives through marriage






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






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






41. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






42. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






43. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






44. 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






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






46. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






47. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






48. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






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