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DSST General Anthropology

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1. (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






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






3. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






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






5. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).






6. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






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






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






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






10. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






11. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables






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






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






14. 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)






15. <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






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






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






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






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






20. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources






21. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya






22. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






23. 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..






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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government






31. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Relatives through marriage






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






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






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






47. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden






48. (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






49. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






50. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar