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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






3. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






4. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






5. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






7. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)






8. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor






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






10. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic






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






12. Family that raised you






13. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew






14. Civilization to invent 'zero'






15. (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






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






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






18. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt






19. Collecting community data for use by development planners






20. 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.






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






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






23. (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






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






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






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






27. 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)






28. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






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






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






31. 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)






32. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






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






34. Man marries widow of his dead brother






35. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock






36. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






37. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






39. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






40. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)






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






42. 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.






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






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






46. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.






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






48. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






49. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






50. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar