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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






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






4. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)






5. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)






6. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






7. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)






8. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






10. 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






11. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)






12. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






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






14. 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






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






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






17. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






18. Relatives through marriage






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






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






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






22. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






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






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






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






26. Man marries widow of his dead brother






27. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






28. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew






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






30. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).






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. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






33. 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






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






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






36. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






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






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






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






40. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic






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






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






43. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






45. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






46. 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.






47. 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






48. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.






49. Determining the success of a project






50. 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.