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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law






4. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






5. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






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






8. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






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






10. The exchange of genetic material between maternal and paternal chromosomes - creating a new combination of genes on the chromosome.






11. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






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






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






14. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






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






16. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






17. Thinker: social stratification






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






19. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






20. 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)






21. 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.






22. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.






23. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






24. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






25. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






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






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






29. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods






30. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






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






32. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






33. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






35. Ways to date artifacts






36. 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.






37. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






38. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






39. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






40. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.






41. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






42. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






43. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist






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






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






46. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






47. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.






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






49. 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






50. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.