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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






4. 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)






5. 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)






6. 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






7. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






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






10. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation






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






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






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






14. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






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






16. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)






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






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






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






20. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






21. 40 -000 to 8000 B.C. homo sapiens. Found in France. Brain size 1 -400cc. Created art. paleolithic.






22. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






23. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






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






25. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






27. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language






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






29. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.






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






31. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






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






33. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






34. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






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






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






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






38. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science






39. The process by which a living organism adapts to its environment.






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






41. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.






42. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






43. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






44. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






46. 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






47. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






48. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






49. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.






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







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