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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






10. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






11. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






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






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






14. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






15. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






16. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






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






18. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






19. Collecting community data for use by development planners






20. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






21. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.






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






23. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






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






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






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






27. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






28. 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)






29. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






30. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






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






32. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






33. Each inherited characteristic is determined by two heredity factors/genes - one from each parent - which determines whether a gene will be dominant or recessive.

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






35. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






36. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






37. 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






38. 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'






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






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






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






42. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies






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






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






45. 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)






46. 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






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






48. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






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






50. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge