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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 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)






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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).






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






8. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






9. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






10. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






11. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






12. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






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






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






15. Ways to date artifacts






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






17. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






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






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






20. Traces back to ONE person






21. Man marries widow of his dead brother






22. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






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






24. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






25. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






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






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






28. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






29. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock






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






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






32. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






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






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






35. 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






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






37. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






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






40. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew






41. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.






42. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






44. 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.






45. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






46. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death






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






48. Spread of something from one group to another






49. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects






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