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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






3. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






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






5. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya






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






7. Thinkers: linguistics






8. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






10. The commonness of the occurrence of any particular allele in a population (a fraction)






11. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing






12. 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






13. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






14. The subfield of anthropology that focuses on variations in cultural behaviors among human populations






15. 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






16. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.






17. Shift of population from food production to specialization. Strong sense of ownership of land.






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






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






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






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






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






23. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






24. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






27. Old Stone Age. 2.5 mya - 2kya. Chipped stone tools. earliest human ancestors. pleistocene.






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






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






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






31. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






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






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






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






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






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






37. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






38. Strong social prohibition. Abhorrent to society. Eg - Hinduism: killing the co






39. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death






40. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






42. Research in which the data is recorded in numerical form.






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






44. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






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






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






47. Women are material objects - promised to a man in return for reciprocity (usually another woman - or political alliance






48. (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






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






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







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