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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though






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






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






4. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






5. 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)






6. Ways to date artifacts






7. 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).






8. Thinkers: linguistics






9. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






10. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death






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






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






13. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






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






16. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






18. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






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






21. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






22. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






23. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






24. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






25. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






26. (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)






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






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






29. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






30. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)






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






32. 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.






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






34. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio






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






36. 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






37. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co






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






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






40. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






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






43. 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






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






45. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






46. 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)






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






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






49. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






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