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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'






3. Family that raised you






4. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






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






6. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






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






8. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






9. Anthropologist: reciprocity - gift economy - Durkheim's nephew






10. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






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






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






14. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






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






16. Traces back to ONE person






17. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts hidden in clay jars in caves near Qumran by the Dead Sea that were discovered accidentally by Bedouin while looking for a stray animal in 1947..






18. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






19. 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)






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






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






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






23. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






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






25. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.






26. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






27. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






28. States (see themselves as manipulating their environment - controlling it - dominating it - for self-interest).






29. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






30. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






31. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






32. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






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






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






36. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]






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






38. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






39. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






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






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






42. Family who excavate Olduvai Gorge






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






44. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.






45. Logic/Observation (not gods). Thales - Xenophanes - Pyhtagorus - Hippocrates. Differed from Near Eastern thought.






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






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






48. The children of a parent's siblings of the opposite sex (mother's brothers - father's sisters).






49. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






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