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DSST General Anthropology

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1. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






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






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






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






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






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






7. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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).






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






15. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






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






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






19. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






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






21. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






22. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).






23. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






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






25. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar






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






27. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)






28. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






30. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






31. Invented smelting of iron






32. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






34. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






35. (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






36. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






37. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






38. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






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






40. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations






49. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






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