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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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).






12. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.






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






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






15. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language






16. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






17. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






19. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)






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






21. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






22. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






23. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






24. Thinkers: linguistics






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






26. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.






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






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






29. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






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






31. 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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32. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






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






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






35. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






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






37. Civilization to invent 'zero'






38. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






39. Man marries widow of his dead brother






40. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






42. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






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






44. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






45. 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)






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






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






48. Traces back to ONE person






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






50. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group