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DSST General Anthropology

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1. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






2. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






3. Traces back to ONE person






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






5. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)






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






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






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






9. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains






10. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources






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






12. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






13. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






15. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






16. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






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






18. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






19. Determining the success of a project






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






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






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






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






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






25. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






26. Collecting community data for use by development planners






27. 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






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






29. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






30. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






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






33. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






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






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






36. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






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






38. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






39. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






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






41. 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.






42. 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






43. Thinker: social stratification






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






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






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






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






48. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






49. 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






50. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).