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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






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






5. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






6. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






7. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






8. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources






9. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






10. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






11. 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






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






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






14. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






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






16. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






17. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.






18. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






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






20. (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






21. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






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






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






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






25. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






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






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






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






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






31. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






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






33. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






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






35. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.






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






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






38. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






39. New family you form when you marry and have children.






40. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






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






42. 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






43. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






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






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






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






47. 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)






48. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






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






50. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)