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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.






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






4. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






6. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






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






9. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






10. 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






11. 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'






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






13. 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)






14. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement






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






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






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






18. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group






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






20. Invented smelting of iron






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






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






23. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.

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






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






26. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum






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






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






29. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






30. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






31. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






40. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






47. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods






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






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






50. Man marries widow of his dead brother







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