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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science






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






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






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






6. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






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






8. (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)






9. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






10. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






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






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






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






14. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






16. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






17. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect






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






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






20. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






22. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






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






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






26. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'






27. Perform Rituals in belief that ancestors will recognize their own people and make very valuable cargo come (utopian/millenial). John Frum






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






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






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






31. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






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






33. Research that refers to in-depth study using face-to-face or observation techniques to collect data from people in their natural settings.






34. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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35. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






36. (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






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






38. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






39. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






40. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.






41. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






42. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)






43. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por






44. 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






45. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






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






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






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






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






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