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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.






2. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






3. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






4. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






5. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






6. 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..






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






8. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por






9. Determining the success of a project






10. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






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






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






14. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






15. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






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






17. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)






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






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






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






21. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






22. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






23. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)






24. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






25. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






26. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






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






28. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






29. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






30. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






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






32. 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.






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






34. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






35. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.






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






37. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






38. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum






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






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






41. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






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






43. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'






44. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






46. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.






47. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations






48. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






49. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






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