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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.






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






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






4. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






5. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects






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






7. Spread of something from one group to another






8. 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'






9. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic






10. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






20. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






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






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






23. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






24. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






25. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






27. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. Invented smelting of iron






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






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






36. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






37. Determining the success of a project






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






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






40. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






49. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.






50. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic







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