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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Describe behavior in insider/natives own terms. Actor's own reasons - interpretations - customs - beliefs






3. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies






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






5. Study of human activity and cultures through material remains. non-natural science. half science - half humanity. Fills in gaps in human history.






6. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






7. 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






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






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






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






11. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






12. 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]






13. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






14. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






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






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






17. Plants and animals all evolved over a long period of time from simple into more complex life forms. (Darwin)






18. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






19. 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)






20. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






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






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






23. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






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






26. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)






27. Thinker: social stratification






28. Species of people that inhabited much of Europe and the Mediterranean lands c. 200 -000-28 -000 years ago. The name derives from the discovery in 1856 of remains in a cave above Germany's Neander Valley. Neanderthals were short - stout - and powerful






29. 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






30. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






31. 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.






32. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.






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






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






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






36. Determining the success of a project






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






38. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






39. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






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






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






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






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






44. Thinkers: linguistics






45. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio






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






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






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






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






50. Family that raised you