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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 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






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






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






4. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






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






6. 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.






7. 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)






8. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






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






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






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






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






13. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






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






15. Civilization to invent 'zero'






16. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






17. Family that raised you






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






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






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






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






22. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






24. Relatives through marriage






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






26. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






27. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.






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






29. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






30. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






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






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






33. 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)






34. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






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






36. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






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






38. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






39. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






40. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.






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






42. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






43. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






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






45. (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






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






47. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






48. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.






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






50. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co