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DSST General Anthropology

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1. (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)






2. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






4. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






5. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.






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






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






8. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






9. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits

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10. 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..






11. Thinkers: linguistics






12. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.






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






14. Africa: Jackals=Dogs. Donkeys - cats. (entered religious thought - animistic philosphy of Egypt) - Neolithic






15. 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






16. 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.






17. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






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






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






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






21. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






22. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic






23. Traces back to ONE person






24. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






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






27. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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28. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure






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






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






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






32. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






33. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






34. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






35. 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.






36. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






38. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.






39. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






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






41. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






43. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






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






45. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






46. 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).






47. Invented smelting of iron






48. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






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






50. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.