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DSST General Anthropology

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1. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






2. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






3. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






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






5. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






6. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






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






8. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






10. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






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






12. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






13. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






15. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






16. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






17. 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.






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






19. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic






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






21. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic






22. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






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






24. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)






25. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






26. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






28. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).






34. 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)






35. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






36. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






37. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






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






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






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






42. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






43. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements






44. (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






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






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






47. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.






48. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






49. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






50. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.