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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.






2. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






3. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]






4. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.






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






6. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






7. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)






8. (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






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






10. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






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






12. 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)






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






14. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






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






16. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






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






18. 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.






19. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements






20. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






21. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






22. 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






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






24. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






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






26. 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






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






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






29. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






30. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






32. 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).






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






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






35. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic






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






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






38. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






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






40. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum






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






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






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






44. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






45. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits

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46. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






47. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






48. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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49. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






50. Determining the success of a project