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DSST General Anthropology

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1. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






2. 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






3. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio






4. 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.






5. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






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






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






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






9. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






10. 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.






11. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






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






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






14. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]






15. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






16. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






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






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






19. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






20. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.






21. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






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






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






24. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






25. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law






26. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






27. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






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






30. Holistic study of humanity.






31. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure






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






33. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






34. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






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






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






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






38. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






39. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)






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






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






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






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






44. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






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






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






47. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






48. Primitive people. Some people have special power - middlemen b/n man and god. Performs ritual magic to save tribe in trouble






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






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