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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 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)






2. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






3. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains






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






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






6. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Holistic study of humanity.






15. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






16. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






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






18. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)






19. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.






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






21. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. Traces back to ONE person






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






31. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






32. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






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






35. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






36. 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.






37. 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)






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






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






40. Things all people do the same way (language)






41. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






42. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






43. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






44. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






45. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






46. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






47. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color






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






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






50. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture