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DSST General Anthropology

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1. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






2. Action - research & development - community - advocacy - cultural/social marketing






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






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






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






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






7. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






8. Method of detecting buried features by locating the magnetic disturbances they cause: (1957-58) proton magnetometer - the proton gradiometer - and the fluxgate gradiometer.






9. 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..






10. 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






11. (HG) Personalized - supernatural beings (souls or gods) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Everything has a soul. Zambia - Congo - Gabon - Guinea - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Myanmar - Peru - Philippines (+ Canada - Russia - Sweden






12. 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.






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






14. Anthropologist: Indians (North - Central - South America). Recorded folktales of blacks in N. America and West Indies.






15. Category of individuals who enjoy equal prestige according to a society. (Perception of class is relative). Economics - social status - aesthetic preferences - behavior - occupation - appearance - civic involvement






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






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






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






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






20. With reference to the writing of P. Teilhard de Chardin - a stage - world or sphere of evolutionary development characterized by consciousness - the mind - information and interpersonal relationships.






21. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.






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






23. Thinkers: linguistics






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






25. Invented smelting of iron






26. Identifying impact of federal development on archaeological sites and historical buildings






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






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






29. 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






30. New family you form when you marry and have children.






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






32. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






34. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






35. Thinker. functionalism. religion. suicide






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






37. Ruthless empire. By 665BC=Palestine - Syria - Asia Minor - Persian Gulf. buffer b/n civil Middle East & Barbarians.fell in 612BC. Internal revolution - and defeat by NeoBabylonians (Chaldeans)






38. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






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






40. 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






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






42. The aspect of archaeology that deals with the past of man before he learned to write has - since the middle of the 19th century - aka prehistory.






43. Technology that Spread east to Indus River Valley (India) by 5k BC






44. Relatives on each side of marriage - extending at least to second cousin. Urbanization - migration = less importance






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






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






47. Runway/airstrip/radios (coconuts and straw to attract aircraft with cargo). Ritual marches (twigs/guns - insignia 'USA' to look like soldiers)






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






49. Social Movements to build an ideology that is relevant to changing cultural needs (their understanding of world). Eg: Melanesian Cargo Cults - or Mormonism in the US (Joseph Smith)






50. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian