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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 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






2. Invented smelting of iron






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






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






5. Vietnam War (Jesus=jeep/camo) - Native Americans (Dance of the Spirits) - Africa (Abacus/Menstrual Cycle)






6. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits

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7. A larger collection of DNA that contains many genes and the support proteins needed to control these genes.






8. Social Institutions - not theological - philosophical - or psychological phenomenons






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






10. Value of gift and time of repayment are not specified






11. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






13. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






14. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






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






16. 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.






17. Ancient Roman patrilineal clan that shared the same surname - and a legendary common ancestor (worshipped)






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






19. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






20. Things all people do the same way (language)






21. Ritual in Japan/Samurai - boys 12-16 - temple - adult clothes/hair






22. 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).






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






24. Shorthand - Morse Code






25. Spread of something from one group to another






26. 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.






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






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






29. The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Wheat - barley - flax began in Asia. Entered Africa through Nile Delta (Egypt). One form of wheat began in Ethiopia. - Neolithic






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. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)






46. What people SHOULD do according to values and norms






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






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






49. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






50. Authority is allocated. Use force to achieve peace & conformance with law & custom - maintain territory against ext threat.