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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






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






4. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II






5. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






6. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






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






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






9. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






10. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






11. Traces back to ONE person






12. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






13. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death






14. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






15. (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






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






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






18. 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)






19. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






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






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






22. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






23. Determining the success of a project






24. Thinkers: linguistics






25. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.






26. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society






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






28. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






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






31. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






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






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






34. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






35. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






36. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic






37. 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.






38. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






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






41. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'






42. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






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






44. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






45. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






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






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






48. 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.






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






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