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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






2. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables






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






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






5. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






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






7. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)






8. 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.






9. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






10. 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)






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






12. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






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






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






15. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






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






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






18. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government






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






20. Traces back to ONE person






21. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






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






23. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






24. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






25. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics


26. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






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






29. 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






30. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden






31. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






33. Holistic study of humanity.






34. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






35. Family that raised you






36. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods






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






38. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






39. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law






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






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






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






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






44. The process through which genes pass from the gene pool of one population through mating and reproduction to that of another.






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






46. 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.






47. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]






48. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






49. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






50. 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