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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)






2. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






4. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






5. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law






6. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)






7. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.






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






9. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.






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






11. Determining the success of a project






12. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






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






15. 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






16. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






17. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






18. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.






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






20. 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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21. 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.






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






23. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)






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






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






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






27. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






29. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






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






32. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






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






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






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






36. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






37. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






39. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






40. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits

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41. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.






42. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






43. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






44. Traces back to ONE person






45. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies






46. Invented smelting of iron






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






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






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






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