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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. The actual time (usually measured in years) as determined by radioactive decay of elements






4. Spread of innovations in the Cradle of Civilization . Modified: Various centers spread innovation






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






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






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






8. Transfer of cultural traits/ideas from one society/ethnic group to another. McDonald's (US=Fast Food - China=Special Occasion)






9. (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)






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






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






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






13. Exchange of goods/services/gifts/emotions b/n two parties. Often ritual/ceremony. Characteristic of HG groups






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






15. 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






16. 'Upright Man' - An extinct species of the genus Homo - Africa/Europe/Asia. fire and tools. hand ax. early speech.






17. African CLICK language speakers. (click also used in Bantu - Zulu - Xhosa - Damin)






18. The discovery and recording of archaeological sites and their examination by methods other than the use of the spade and the trowel






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






20. Anthropologist: symbolic anthropology. Interpretation of cultures.






21. Mobile Foragers (Eskimo) combine nuclear families. Don't allow accumulated wealth - prize generosity - equality of resources






22. 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.






23. (Reverence): Most rituals mark day - month - season - year - stage of life - new event. Burial Rituals found from 20kya






24. 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.






25. British Hieroglyphics translator -Father of Archeology






26. 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)






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






28. Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. millions of years.






29. Political order (polity) is not a distinct institution - it is embedded in the overall social order. No formal govt






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






31. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






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






34. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






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






36. Ancestors to modern gorillas - chimpanzees - orangutans and humans who diverged 30 million years ago from monkeys. Characteristics include: large - strong jaw - large brain and partially erect posture.






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






38. Food foragers (in-sync with env - see themselves as a harmonious part of natural world).






39. Holistic study of humanity.






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






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






42. Development of Civilizations: Copper & Tin=Bronze. Replaced stone for tools/weapons






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






44. A homo erectus discovered by Dutch physician and anatomist Eugene Dubois in 1891 in JAVA Indonesia -






45. Early humans and human like creature. Erect - large complex brain - tool-using - community organization.






46. 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)






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






48. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






49. Domestication of plants - gardening using man-powered tools. Labor Intensive/Surplus/Social Stratification






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







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