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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons






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






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






4. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






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






6. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






7. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






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






10. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






11. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






12. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






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






14. Ways to date artifacts






15. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt






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






17. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






19. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






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






21. 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)






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






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






24. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






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






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






27. 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






28. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'






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






30. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing






31. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






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






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






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






35. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






36. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






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






38. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






39. Holistic study of humanity.






40. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.






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






42. Thinker: social stratification






43. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






44. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).






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






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






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






48. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






49. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






50. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor