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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






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






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






5. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






7. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






8. 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






9. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains






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






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






12. 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)






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






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






15. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






16. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






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






18. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






19. 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).






20. Thinker: social stratification






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






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






23. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






24. Traces back to ONE person






25. Thinkers: linguistics






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






27. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)






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






29. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






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






31. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






32. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






33. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.






34. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






35. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.






36. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






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






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






39. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)






40. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






41. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






42. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya






43. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






44. 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.






45. 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..






46. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.






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






48. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)






49. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






50. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic