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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.






2. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






3. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance






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






5. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






6. Collecting community data for use by development planners






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






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






9. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






10. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






12. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.






13. Traces back to ONE person






14. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






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






16. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






17. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.






18. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation






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






20. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






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






22. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






23. 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]






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






25. Ways to date artifacts






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






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






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






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






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






31. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






32. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






33. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






35. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden






36. 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..






37. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






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






39. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect






40. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






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






42. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






43. 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






44. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






45. Man marries widow of his dead brother






46. 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






47. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)






48. Invented smelting of iron






49. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.






50. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.