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agriculture, states...etc.
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
04/24/2009

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rise of states
Definition

*hydraulic system

*long and local distance trade

*colonization, decolonization

*pop. growth and war expansion

*unification of cities

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globalization
Definition
exchange of similarities & differences of economic, traditional cultures
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prehistoric globalization
Definition
its local & regional; inter group marriages, natural disasters, spread of merchant trade, multi regional migration, early warfare for territories
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historic globalization
Definition
worldwide, global; spread of religion, political factors, economic factors, intellectual factors...
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2 negative religious globalization
Definition
terrorism and ?
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ritual
Definition
routine, religious performance patterned behavior
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supernatural specialist

 

Definition
religious leader who teaches doctrine of religion
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animism
Definition
belief in spiritual beings,earliest form of religion
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3 probs. humans face today
Definition

*poverty

*natural disaster

*crime

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how can archaeology be used to solve common problems?
Definition
they add value to our past by doing research and drawing tourism from the excavations they do by exploring and recording info.
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view of sapir- whorf
Definition
language constructs reality, diff. languages produce diff. ways of thinking
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noam chomsky
Definition
he rejected sapir-whorf theory and believes that all languages have a common structural basis; all humans have similar thinking abilities and thought processes..
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socio-linguistics
Definition
study differences between different dialects in region, states and how they are spoken and how it affects their culture
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histo- linguistics
Definition
study rate of change of language
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3 specific archaeology
Definition

* zooarchaeology

* ethnoarchaeology

* experimental archaeology

* archaeobotany

* historical archaeology

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pasturalization
Definition
herding of animals
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transhumance
Definition
the seasonal movement of people with their livestock over relatively short distance, typically to higher pastures in summer and lower valleys in winter. sedentary pasturalism
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horticulture
Definition
cropping vegetables on a scale with no pesticides or tractors
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moiety
Definition
divide kinship into two lineages to avoid incest , endogamy
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polyandry
Definition
wives marry multiple husbands
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fraternal polyandry
Definition
limits land resources so two brothers marry same wife to keep limited resources in the family
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sororate
Definition
widower marries the sister of the deceased wife
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levirate
Definition
widower marries the brother of the deceased husband
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multiculturalism
Definition
embracing multiple ethnicities to be part of an environment
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material culture
Definition
things we make, wear anything that we cherish and use materialistically
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racial integration
Definition
ther are so many races all over the world, and when some people have not been exposed to other races it makes them ignorant to the diiferences from their culture..when people are ignorant about another race they usually are racist only because they are not used to that group of people and their traditions or just simply are not used to how they look.
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floatation analysis
Definition
its when you take soil samples, put it in a bucket to sift and sep.light fraction from heavy fraction. to understand what can survive in that particular environment and why..
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broad spectrum revolution
Definition
char. of an economy that existed around sedented economy that was 12-8 kya
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polygyny
Definition
man marries multiple wives
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polyandry
Definition
wive marries multiple husbands
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allen's rule
Definition
fingers, toes; body parts that protrude in warmer climates
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kinship ties formed?
Definition
Based on relations. you are born into a kinship system and therefore can form your own through adoption, marriage, friendship, or biological descent
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foraging
Definition
picking berries, fruits, nuts. Hunting small animals, picking & hunting then go to the city to sell it.
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3 attributes that paleoanthropologist look out for in the analysis of skeletal remains
Definition

*fracture

*age

 *gender

*diets

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five ways sites are discovered AND TWO excavation methods used by archaeologists
Definition

*accident

*underwater

*historical documents

*using tools

*searching for a spot

 

2 methods:

*shovel test pit

*trench ot unit excavation

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3 specializations in archaeology
Definition

*zooarchaeology

*archaeobotany

*experimental

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3 reasons why archaeology is a relevant field of study
Definition

*helps history

*helps changes in environment

*helps us to know who we are by knowing where we came from

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absolute dating method
Definition
provide exact dates of events but subject to statistical variation
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relative dating method
Definition
does not show exact date but can determine the relative age of an artifact in comparison of others based on sequence in time and space. shows which specimen is younger or older but not its exact date
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who owns the past? explain
Definition
basically a group of people watching a race discovered a body of a skeleton. natives wanted to rebury it and claim it as one of their own but scientists wanted to further experiment and said it was not a native skeleton. they took it to court and the judge believed there was not enough info to prove it was an indian body so the scientists kept it to do further research. so basically anybody can own the past from scientists to any individual alive now...
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4 types of archaeological sites
Definition

*game sites

*burial sites

*mass grave sites

*kill sites

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kayapo
Definition

*kinship/social origin- men go out to hunt and women collect berries etc

 

*subsistence economy- hunt and gather/ forage horticulture

 

*religion- dont believe in divine being, they believe in earth/ forest spirits.

 

*impact of globalization- they bought planes, trucks, receive political protection from govt.

impact of christianity in the community

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kalasha
Definition

*kinship- women look after goats and the men farm. men take goats to pastures. women go to the menstruating house when they are having a baby or their menstrual cycle is on; men never go there.

 

*subsistence economy- pasturalism, agriculture

 

*religion- polytheism- which is multiple deities that they worship, they believe in pure and unpure spirits. the men are more pure in this society because they dont have a menstrual cycle. muslims are unpure environment is poor and everything has a spirit.

 

*impact of globalization- tourism, education, lumbering

 

 

Term
kawelka
Definition

*location- papua, new guinea

 

*kinship- big men, gift exchange can only give if you have pigs, linguistic performance determines your status, gender roles- practice polygyny

 

*subsistence econ- pigs, coffee/ tea, potatoes

 

*religion- believe in sorcery/ witchcraft, ghosts(spirits of the dead), revenge spirits and kill people in other communities due to sorcery that they believed was performed, so they blame other communities for unexpected deaths..

 

*impact of globalization- missinization, cash economy, plantation systems, wage labor

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Basque
Definition

*location- southern spain, northern france

 

*kinship, gender roles- 3 generations live together(communalism), community depends on each other, live by the egalitarian principle- they are all equal.

Men take sheep to mountain, older women work in the house, younger women work in the field, competition in cheese making.

 

*subsistence economy- cheese

 

*religion- old farm(old spirit) and new farm(new spirit), catholic

 

*social organization- priest is head of community

*impact of globalization- younger people traveling to get better jobs. Construction of new roads. Education. 

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