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DSST General Anthropology

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1. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






2. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






3. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






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






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






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






7. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.






8. Based on institutionalized beliefs and practices dealing with ultimate meaning of life. Belief stems from their experience of the world.






9. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






10. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






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






13. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






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






15. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






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






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






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






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






20. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color






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






22. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






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






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






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






26. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






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






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






30. Scarcity - Supply & Demand - Self-interest - personal gain - rational decision-making. Economy can be analyzed independent of other social structures and institutions.Emph: Choice of Indiv actor






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






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






33. (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






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






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






36. Collecting community data for use by development planners






37. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






38. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






39. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.






40. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






41. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful






42. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






43. Thinker: social stratification






44. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






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






46. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






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






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






49. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






50. New family you form when you marry and have children.







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