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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






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






4. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






5. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






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






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






8. (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






9. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






10. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






11. Traces back to ONE person






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






13. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'






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






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






16. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.






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






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






19. The school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss - in which cultures - viewed as systems - are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Referring to mental structure.






20. Relatives through marriage






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






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






23. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.






24. 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






25. 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






26. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






27. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






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






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






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






41. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






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. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






44. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic






45. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






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






47. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






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






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