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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. Thinkers: linguistics






4. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






5. 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'






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






7. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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8. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






9. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though






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






11. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






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






13. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






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






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






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






17. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.






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






19. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






20. 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)






21. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






22. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect






23. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






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






25. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic






26. Traces back to ONE person






27. 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]






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations






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






34. New family you form when you marry and have children.






35. Ways to date artifacts






36. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






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






38. (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






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






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






41. 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)






42. Family that raised you






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






44. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.






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






46. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






47. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons






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






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






50. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic