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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Family that raised you






2. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






3. 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.






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






5. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






6. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government






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






8. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






9. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden






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






11. Man marries widow of his dead brother






12. Civilization to invent 'zero'






13. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






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






15. 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)






16. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables






17. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits

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






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






20. 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.






21. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






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






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






24. Thinker: social stratification






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






26. Things all people do the same way (language)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






37. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






38. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






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






40. 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)






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






42. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)






43. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






44. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






46. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






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






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






49. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






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