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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






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






4. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






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






7. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






8. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.






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






10. (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






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






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






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






14. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






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






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






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






18. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






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






20. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






21. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






22. 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






23. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






24. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






25. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






26. Spread of something from one group to another






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






28. Holistic study of humanity.






29. 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)






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






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






32. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






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






35. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






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






37. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






38. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)






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






40. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






41. 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.






42. 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






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






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






45. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






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






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






48. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






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






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