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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






2. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






4. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables






5. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






7. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






9. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.






10. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






11. 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






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






13. (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






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






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






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






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






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






20. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






21. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






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






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






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






25. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






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






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






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






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






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






31. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






32. Half way b/n tribe and a state. Permanent political structure. Transitional form of sociopol org in evolution of tribe to state






33. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






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






35. (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)






36. Determining the success of a project






37. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance






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






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






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






41. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods






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






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






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






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






46. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






47. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






48. Relatives through marriage






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






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







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