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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock






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






4. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'






5. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






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






8. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.






9. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations






10. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.






11. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.






12. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






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






14. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






15. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






16. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






17. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects






18. New family you form when you marry and have children.






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






20. (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






21. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






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






23. 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






24. Relatives through marriage






25. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.






26. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.






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






28. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






30. Thinker: social stratification






31. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.






32. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio






33. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






34. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






35. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






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






37. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






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






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






40. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






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






42. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






43. Thinkers: linguistics






44. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






45. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






46. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






47. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






48. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist






49. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






50. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic






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