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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






2. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






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






4. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






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






6. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations






7. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble






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






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






10. Spread of something from one group to another






11. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






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






13. 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.






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






15. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






16. 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)






17. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






18. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






19. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew






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






21. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






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






23. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






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






25. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






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






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






28. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






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






30. Shorthand - Morse Code






31. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure






32. 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


33. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






35. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






36. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






38. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






39. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






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






41. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.






42. 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






43. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death






44. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic






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