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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'






3. 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






4. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic






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






6. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)






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






8. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






10. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






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






12. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






13. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






14. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).






15. 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.






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






17. Man marries widow of his dead brother






18. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






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






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






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






22. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. 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






31. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






32. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






33. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.






34. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






35. 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






36. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






38. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






39. Traces back to ONE person






40. 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






41. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






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






43. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






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






45. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






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






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






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






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






50. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture