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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Invented smelting of iron






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






4. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






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






6. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






7. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






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






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






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






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






12. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






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






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






15. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






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






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






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






20. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






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






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






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






25. 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)






26. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






27. 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






28. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






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






31. 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.






32. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






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






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






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






36. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






37. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).






38. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






39. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






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






41. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






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






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






44. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






45. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






46. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






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






48. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






49. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






50. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.






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