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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Civilization to invent 'zero'






2. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






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






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






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






6. (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)






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






8. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






10. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






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






13. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






14. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por






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






16. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






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






18. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






19. The linguistic hypothesis holds that language predisposes us to see the world in a certain way was developed by these two.






20. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.






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






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






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






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






26. Common in non-intensive food production. Villages=Various descent groups (clans/bands) - no formal govt or social classes.






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






28. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






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






30. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






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






32. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






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






35. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






36. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






45. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death






46. 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






47. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






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






50. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)