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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






2. Relatives through marriage






3. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






4. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






5. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






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






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






8. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






9. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






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






11. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






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






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






14. Traces back to ONE person






15. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)






16. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






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






18. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






19. 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)






20. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote






21. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






22. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






24. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






25. 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.






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






27. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






28. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






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






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






31. Thinkers: linguistics






32. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






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






34. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups






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






36. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing






37. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.






38. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






39. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






40. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






41. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






42. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






43. 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)






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






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






46. 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






47. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






48. (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






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






50. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.







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