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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






2. Relatives through marriage






3. 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.






4. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






5. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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.






11. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance






12. 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.






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






14. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






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






16. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






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






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






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






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






22. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






24. Invented smelting of iron






25. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






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






27. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






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






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






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






32. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






33. Thinker: social stratification






34. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.






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






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






37. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group






38. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






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






40. Things all people do the same way (language)






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






42. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






43. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






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






45. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






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






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






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






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






50. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).