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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






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






4. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






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






6. Acting as a communiction link between producers and users of new technology






7. Platyrrhini - south america - small mammals - tree dwellers - prehensile tails - noctural - monogamous (gibbons - marmosets)






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






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






10. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






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






12. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






13. 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'






14. The elementary structure. all cultural systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister - husband/wife - father/son - and mother's brother/sister's son. (Levi-Strauss).






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






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






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






18. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






19. Form of government of Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Israelites






20. Collecting community data for use by development planners






21. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






22. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






23. Animistic/Shamanistic. Animal or other naturalistic figure that spiritually represents a person or a clan (intimate relationship)






24. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






26. Invented smelting of iron






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






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






29. 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..






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






31. (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






32. Skipped Bronze Age. Intermediate Neolithic tools were used instead (Zaire - Ghana). But not in Kenya (no celts - axes etc)






33. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






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






35. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects






36. 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.






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






38. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






40. The 1st in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (hunter-gatherer - hordes - no class - no ownership).






41. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






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






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






44. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






45. 20 century anthropologist.structural-functionalism. primitive societies - Durkhiem






46. Traces back to ONE person






47. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






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






49. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






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