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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






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






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






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






7. Closest living animal to modern humans. 96% same DNA.






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






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






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






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






13. 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)






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






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






16. Thinkers: linguistics






17. Thinker: social stratification






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






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






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






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






22. Man marries widow of his dead brother






23. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry






24. 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.






25. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






26. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






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






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






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






30. 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'






31. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)






32. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






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






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






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






37. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






38. 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






39. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






40. 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]






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






42. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)






43. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






45. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






46. (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






47. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






48. 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






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






50. 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.