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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






2. 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'






3. 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


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






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






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






7. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.






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






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






10. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






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






12. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






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






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






16. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






18. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






19. Collecting community data for use by development planners






20. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






21. Civilization to invent 'zero'






22. Things all people do the same way (language)






23. 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.






24. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






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






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






27. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






29. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






30. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






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






32. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.






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






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






35. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






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






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






39. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies






40. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic






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






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






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






44. 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






45. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






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






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






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






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






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