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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






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






3. Man marries widow of his dead brother






4. The observable characteristics of an organism - including physical appearance.






5. 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.






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






7. World's first cities appeared between the years 4000 and 3500 BC.






8. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






9. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






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






11. (skills that only some people have) Playing guitar - understanding algebra.






12. Fixed at birth - unchangeable - endogamous. India: Brahmins - warriors - artisans - laborers (then untouchables)






13. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






14. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






16. Groups descended from mother or father's line only. (unilateral)






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






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






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






20. 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






21. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






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






23. Consists of social impact assessment - evaluation research - technology development research - cultural resource assessment






24. 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






25. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






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






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






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






29. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation






30. 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..






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






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






33. Determining the success of a project






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






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






36. Ways to date artifacts






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






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






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






40. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry






41. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






42. Person is considered equally related to kinfolk on either side of the family. Western Socs. (bilateral)






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






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






45. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






46. 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'






47. Anthropologist: Pacific Islands(SamoaPolynesia) - cultural effects on development of personality






48. Belief of early anthropologist that cultures evolve through various stages from a simpler and more primitive state to a complex and more culturally advanced state.






49. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






50. 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)