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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups






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






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






11. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






12. Thinker: social stratification






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






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






15. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






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






17. Family that raised you






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






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






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






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






22. Collecting community data for use by development planners






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






24. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






25. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]






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






27. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






28. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






29. 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






30. 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..






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






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






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






34. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






35. 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






36. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






38. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.






39. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






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






42. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






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






44. 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






45. 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)






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






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






48. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






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






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