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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






2. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).






3. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






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






6. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






7. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.






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






9. 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






10. Man marries widow of his dead brother






11. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






12. 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






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






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






15. 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)






16. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






24. 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






25. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






26. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






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






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






29. Ways to date artifacts






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






31. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.






32. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






33. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






34. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






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






36. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






37. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic






38. Spread of something from one group to another






39. <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






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






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






42. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






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






44. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






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






46. Family that raised you






47. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






48. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






49. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.






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







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