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DSST General Anthropology

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1. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.






2. 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.






3. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






4. Ways to date artifacts






5. 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






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






7. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






8. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






9. Ritual in Burma/Thai boy monks 7-14 - 'Jewel Princess'






10. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






11. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






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






13. Evaluating other groups according to THEIR standards (not judging)






14. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






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






16. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






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






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






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






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






21. One of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic - such as hair color






22. 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






23. 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






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






25. Small segment of DNA that codes for the systhesis (creation) of a specific protein - and thus determines a trait.






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






27. (3k BC) Spread copper tools to Sudan - but rest of Africa passed directly from Mesolithic to Iron Age. Theocracy government. (Bronze age)






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






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






30. Determining the success of a project






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






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






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






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






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






36. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






37. Muslim (up to 4 wives by law). Middle East - Asia - North Africa. Native Americans (before European values)






38. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






39. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






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






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






42. Thinkers: linguistics






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






44. 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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45. 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






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






47. Collecting community data for use by development planners






48. (New Stone Age): 10kya. Domestic animals - villages - pottery - weaving - food producing (not collecting). Holocene. Beginning of real civilization (Final stage of prehistoric cult evol/techno dev)






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






50. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.