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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






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






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






5. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement






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






7. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






9. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






10. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist






11. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






12. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)






13. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






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






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






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






17. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






18. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por






19. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






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






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






22. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).






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






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






25. 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.






26. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum






27. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government






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






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






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






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






32. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)






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






34. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






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






37. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






38. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.






39. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






41. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






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






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






44. Collecting community data for use by development planners






45. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






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






47. 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'






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






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






50. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs







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