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DSST General Anthropology

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1. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations






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






3. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






4. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.






5. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






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






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






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






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






10. (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






11. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons






12. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






14. Civilization to invent 'zero'






15. Shorthand - Morse Code






16. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies






17. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






18. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






19. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry






20. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






21. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






23. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics


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






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






26. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic






27. Thinkers: linguistics






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






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






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






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






32. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






33. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.






34. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






35. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






36. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






37. Holistic study of humanity.






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






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






40. 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)






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






42. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






43. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.






44. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






45. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.






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






47. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






48. 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..






49. 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)






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