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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. Relatives through marriage






3. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.






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






5. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






6. 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






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






8. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






9. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






10. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






11. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods






12. 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).






13. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






14. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






16. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






17. 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






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






19. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






20. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






21. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






22. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






23. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.






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






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






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






28. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






29. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.






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






31. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






32. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






33. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance






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






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






36. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






37. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






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






39. 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






40. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






41. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






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






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






44. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






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






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






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






49. (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






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






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