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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. 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.






4. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






5. Ways to date artifacts






6. 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






7. 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)






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






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






10. (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






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






12. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.






13. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






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






15. 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).






16. Thinkers: linguistics






17. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






18. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






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






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






22. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






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






24. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






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






26. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






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






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






29. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)






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






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






32. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






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






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






35. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






37. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






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






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






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






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






42. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.






43. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.






44. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






45. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.






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






47. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






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






50. 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