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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






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






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






4. (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






5. 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)






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






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






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






9. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






11. 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






12. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






13. Invented smelting of iron






14. Thinkers: linguistics






15. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






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






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. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.






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






20. 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






21. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






22. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






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






24. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






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






26. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






27. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






28. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






30. 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






31. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






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






33. Determining the success of a project






34. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons






35. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation






36. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






37. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)






38. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






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






40. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.






41. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






42. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.






43. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






45. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






47. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






48. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)






49. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






50. 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.