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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






3. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)






4. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.






5. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






6. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






7. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)






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






9. 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)






10. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






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






12. 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.






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






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






15. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.






16. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group






17. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






18. (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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. Family that raised you






24. 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






25. Ways to date artifacts






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






27. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






28. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt






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






30. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






31. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






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






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






34. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).






35. Relatives through marriage






36. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






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






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






39. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






40. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language






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






42. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






43. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






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






45. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






47. 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.






48. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






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






50. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)