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DSST General Anthropology

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1. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).






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






3. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






4. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






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






6. (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






7. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






8. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






9. 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)






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






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






12. Invented smelting of iron






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






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






15. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






18. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






19. 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






20. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






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






22. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)






23. Shorthand - Morse Code






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






25. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






26. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






27. (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






28. 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






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






30. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic






31. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






32. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






33. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements






34. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons






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






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






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






38. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






39. Thinker: social stratification






40. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






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






42. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






43. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics


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






45. 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






46. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






47. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






48. Collecting community data for use by development planners






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






50. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.