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DSST General Anthropology

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1. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






2. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






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






4. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. Collecting community data for use by development planners






11. Traces back to ONE person






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






13. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects






14. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.






15. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co






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






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






18. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language






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






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






21. 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






22. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)






37. (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






38. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






39. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)






40. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






42. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.






43. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






44. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






45. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






46. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society






47. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






48. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






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






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