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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Thinker: social stratification






2. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.






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






4. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






5. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.






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






7. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






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






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






10. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic






11. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






12. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






13. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






14. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






15. 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)






16. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






17. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






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






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






20. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






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






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






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






24. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations






25. <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






26. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






27. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.






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






29. Basic building blocks of culture. Without them - there is no culture






30. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






31. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry






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






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






34. 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






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






36. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.






37. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






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






39. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






41. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






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






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






45. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






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






47. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






49. 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






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