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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Traces back to ONE person






2. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt






3. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






4. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing






5. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)






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






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






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






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






10. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






11. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






13. 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.






14. Spread of something from one group to another






15. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






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






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






18. 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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19. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons






20. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






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






22. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






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






24. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






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






34. (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






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






36. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






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






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






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






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






41. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






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






43. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






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






45. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






46. Shorthand - Morse Code






47. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






48. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






49. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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







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