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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






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






4. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote






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






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






7. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






8. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.






9. 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






10. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






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






13. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






14. Thinkers: linguistics






15. 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)






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






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






18. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






19. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law






20. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






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






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






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






24. 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).






25. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).






26. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color






27. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble






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






29. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.






34. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






36. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






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






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






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






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






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






42. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






43. 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






44. Collecting community data for use by development planners






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






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






47. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






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






49. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






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