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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






3. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.






4. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law






5. The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and 'survival of the fittest' to human societies - particularly as justification for United States expansion. (white man's burden)






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






7. Study of remains found in layers of soil and rock






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






9. Referring to time as it relates to something older or younger; not exact dates.






10. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.






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






12. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






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






14. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






15. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






16. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






18. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






19. 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.






20. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote






21. Spread of something from one group to another






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






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






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






26. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






27. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew






28. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






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






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






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






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






33. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






34. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






36. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






37. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






39. 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'






40. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement






41. Man marries widow of his dead brother






42. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






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






44. (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)






45. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






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






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






48. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






50. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).







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