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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations






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






3. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






4. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






5. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II






6. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






7. Spread of something from one group to another






8. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






9. A process in which chromosomes physically exchange parts.






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






11. 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'






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






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






14. Indians: Tribal villages (farmer class) - religious urban centers (priest class) - TIME/Astronomy/math - pyramids - reptilian gods.






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






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






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






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






19. Collecting community data for use by development planners






20. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






21. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






22. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






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






24. 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.






25. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






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






27. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






28. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por






29. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.






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






31. 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






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






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






34. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






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






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






37. 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






38. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.






39. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






41. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






42. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)






43. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






44. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






45. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






46. 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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47. Hispanic ritual - 15 yr girl - sneakers to high heel






48. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






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






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







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