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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. 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






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






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






6. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






7. (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






8. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






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






10. Determining the success of a project






11. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






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






13. (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






14. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)






15. Thinker: social stratification






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






17. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






18. 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)






19. Spread of something from one group to another






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






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






22. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






23. 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)






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






25. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






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






27. Ways to date artifacts






28. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






29. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






30. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






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






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






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






34. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






35. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote






36. 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






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






38. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






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






40. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






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






42. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






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






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






45. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






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






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






48. Relatives through marriage






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






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