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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






3. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






5. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.

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6. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






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






8. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






9. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






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






17. 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






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






19. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






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






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






22. 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)






23. Civilization to invent 'zero'






24. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






25. 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)






26. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic






27. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.






28. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






29. Family that raised you






30. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






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






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






33. Traces back to ONE person






34. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






36. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






38. Determining the success of a project






39. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






40. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






41. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society






42. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






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






44. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






45. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






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






47. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






48. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)






49. Thinker: social stratification






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