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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. 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]






6. 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)






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






8. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






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






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






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






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






14. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






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






16. Collecting community data for use by development planners






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






18. 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






19. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.






20. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






21. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






23. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






24. New family you form when you marry and have children.






25. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






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






28. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






29. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






30. 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






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






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






33. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements






34. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






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






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






37. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic






38. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






40. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






41. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.






42. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






43. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






44. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






45. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies






46. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






47. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






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






49. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)






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