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DSST General Anthropology

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1. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






2. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






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






4. Collecting community data for use by development planners






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






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






7. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.






8. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. (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






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






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






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






18. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






26. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






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






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






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






30. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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






32. Anthrpologist: Arapaho - archeo/anthro. preservation of Indian tribal culture. salvage ethnography. student of Boas.






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






34. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons






35. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






36. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






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






38. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






39. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






40. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






42. Spread of something from one group to another






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






44. Thinker: social stratification






45. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






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






47. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though






48. Through the mother but DOES NOT imply matriarchy






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






50. 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.