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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Ceremonial distrib of property/gifts to affirm social status. Ritual generosity - conspic consump. Wealth used to purchase Prestige. NW Pacific Indian Tribes Haida - Nuxalk - Tlingit - Tsimshian - Salish - Nuu-chah-nulth - and Kwakiutl. Also similar






2. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).






3. 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






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






5. The archaeology of ancient Egypt






6. Branch of anthropology - systematic and detailed comparison of human races - their origin - distribution - culture - etc.






7. 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'






8. Things all people do the same way (language)






9. (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






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






11. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. Thinkers: linguistics






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






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






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






20. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






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






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






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






24. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






25. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






26. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.






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






28. (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






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






30. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






31. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






32. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






33. Civilization to invent 'zero'






34. 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






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






36. Spread of an IDEA from one group to another.






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






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






39. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group






40. 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






41. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






42. Permanent formal government structures and socioeconomic stratification. Most people in world's society. Autonomous political units - social classes - Formal govt based on Law - social status - population control - judges - law enf - fiscal.






43. Spread from Middle East north to Europe (across Turkey/Greece into C. Eur. AND across Egypt/N Afr to Spain).Britain and Scandinavia became farming after 3k BC (Mesolithic Period).- Neolithic






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






45. Random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations. Sewall-Wright effect






46. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






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






49. Ways to date artifacts






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