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DSST General Anthropology

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1. 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.






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






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






4. Began 5k ya in Mesopotamia - Egypt - possible to create flood control plans. Later in India - China - then Europe.






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






6. 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






7. Either of 2 sibs - clans - kinship groups - of unilateral descent - that together make up a tribe or society






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. Buying/selling goods & Services with prices set by supply & demand. (usually involves money). Haviland: Informal v. Formal (govt controlled)






13. System of symbols - mediate b/n an individual and his world. Way of Life. Make sense of world - motivate behavior






14. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






15. Also known as 'biological anthropology -' studies the mechanisms of biological evolution - genetic inheritance - human adaptability and variation - primatology - and the fossil record of human evolution.






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






17. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.






18. The study of how people use language in context - how utterances are used - either figuratively or literally - in communicative acts.






19. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






20. Cholula - Huastec - Mixtec - Olmec - Pipil - Totonac - Toltec - Zapote






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






22. Hawaiian - aroi sun kingdom






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






24. The 3rd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. Human form of culture. many people in urban center - smelt metals - method of writing.






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






26. Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities - Sumerians.






27. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






28. 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






29. (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)






30. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






31. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






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






33. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males.






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






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






36. Collecting community data for use by development planners






37. (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






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






39. Anthropologist: How natives think - mystic participation






40. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






41. 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)






42. Thinkers: linguistics






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






44. 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






45. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






46. Created by repeated pecking at grindstones b/c too smooth to grind red ochre=Macehead (Egypt/Nile Valley)- Neolithic






47. The application of scientific principles to agriculture especially to animal breeding






48. From Africa to Eurasia (through Himalayas/Silk Road - across straight of Gilbralter.






49. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations






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