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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.






4. 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






5. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






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






8. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






10. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. (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)






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






16. Invented smelting of iron






17. 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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18. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






20. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






21. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






22. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






23. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






24. Family that raised you






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






26. 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.






27. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language






28. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






29. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.






30. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






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






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






33. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






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






35. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






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






37. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






38. Shorthand - Morse Code






39. 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)






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






41. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






42. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






43. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






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






45. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






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






48. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






49. (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






50. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)