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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






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






5. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






6. 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.






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






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






9. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement






10. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






11. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya






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






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






14. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).






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






16. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






17. Traces back to ONE person






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






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






20. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






21. 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






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






23. Holistic study of humanity.






24. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






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






27. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






28. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






29. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)






30. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






31. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






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






33. 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.






34. 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)






35. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)






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






37. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






38. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






39. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






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






41. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






43. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






44. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.






45. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






46. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






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






49. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






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