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DSST General Anthropology

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1. (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






2. Provisional sampling cuts to explore potential excavation sites. Tigris/Euphrates flooded regularly so hard to navigate.






3. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)






4. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






5. Anthropologist: After armchair anthro...embarked on early anthro expeditions (not scientifically rigorous).






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






7. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






8. Describe behavior in terms familiar to the observer (enables comparative research - and making universal claims)






9. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






10. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






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






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






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






14. The genetic makeup of an organism as indicated by its set of alleles - that determines hereditary potential/limits from embyro to adulthood.






15. The living world. the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist






16. Collecting community data for use by development planners






17. Man marries widow of his dead brother






18. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






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






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






21. Cultural phenom existed for a reason - but persist when conditions change (superstition=vestige of rational practices).






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






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






24. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






25. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






26. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.






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






28. Spread of something from one group to another






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






30. First farming. 9-7k BC. Middle East (Iraq - Iran - Israel etc.) Barley - wheat - sheep - goats. (cows/pigs later). Spread from Middle East north to Europe - Neolithic






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






32. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science






33. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






34. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.






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






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






37. Giving and receiving are specific as to value of goods - and time of delivery.






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






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






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






41. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






42. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio






43. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






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






45. Family that raised you






46. Ritual of Greek Citizenship






47. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






48. Communal Ownership of Land. Some ownership - but pastures - forests - mountains - waterways - sacred grounds - are shared






49. Viewpoint of Anthropologists. Economy that is embedded within other social structures and institutions. Interaction of humans with their environment - methods of 'want' satisfaction. Holistic. Opponents argue that Formalist approach only applies to m






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