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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.






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






3. 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.






4. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






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






7. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables






8. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






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






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






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






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






13. 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)






14. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






15. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






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






17. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






19. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co






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






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






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






23. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)






28. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color






29. 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).






30. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






31. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






32. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






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






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






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






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






37. Relatives through marriage






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






39. 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.






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






41. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






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






43. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)






44. 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.






45. (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)






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






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






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






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






50. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains