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DSST General Anthropology

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1. (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






2. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






3. 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.






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






5. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons






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






7. Spread of something from one group to another






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






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






10. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






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






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






13. 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)






14. 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






15. 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.






16. Family that raised you






17. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden






27. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






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






29. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.






30. 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






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






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






33. Ways to date artifacts






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






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






36. Thinkers: linguistics






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






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






39. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






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






41. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






42. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






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






44. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.






45. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






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






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






48. Holistic study of humanity.






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






50. Man marries widow of his dead brother