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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. 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).






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






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






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






6. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






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






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






9. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.






10. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)






11. 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






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






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






14. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry






15. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure






22. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






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






24. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






25. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






26. 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






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






28. 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)






29. 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.






30. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






31. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






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






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






34. 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






35. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods






36. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






37. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






38. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






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






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






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






42. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons






43. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






44. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture






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






46. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






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






48. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






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






50. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian