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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






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






4. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






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






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






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. 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.






10. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).






11. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






12. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.

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






14. 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






15. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






16. Determining the success of a project






17. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






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






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






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






21. 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)






22. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






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






25. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






26. 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)






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






28. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.






29. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






30. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






31. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance






32. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






33. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.






34. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Family that raised you






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






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






46. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






48. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods






49. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






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