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DSST General Anthropology

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1. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






2. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






3. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






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






5. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






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






7. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






8. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






9. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






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






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






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






13. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






14. 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






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






16. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)






17. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






18. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






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






28. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






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






30. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






31. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






32. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.






33. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






34. Determining the success of a project






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






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






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






38. Ways to date artifacts






39. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups






40. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






41. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






42. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.






43. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic






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






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






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






47. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect






48. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






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






50. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.