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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 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






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






4. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






5. Invented smelting of iron






6. 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






7. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






8. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






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






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






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






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






13. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






14. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.






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






16. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






17. 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






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






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






20. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






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






23. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)






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






25. 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)






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






27. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






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






29. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






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






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






33. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






34. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






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






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






37. 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.






38. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






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






46. 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)






47. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






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






50. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects