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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






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






4. Chavin - Chibcham Chimor - Chachapoya - Huari - Inca - Moche - Nazca - Tairona - Tiwanaku






5. Using anthropological expertise on a practical level to understand and alleviate human problems. Eg - Impact of a new agriculture system in a society - causes of illiteracy among adults in a given group






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






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






8. What people ACTUALLY do in everyday - real life interactio






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






10. Lord owned the land. Allocated land to Nobles (for loyalty/mil service). Serfs/slaves=Actually Part of the Property






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






12. The archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome






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






14. Flat/broad nosed primates; New World monkeys






15. 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.






16. Father of Modern Anthropology - noted for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies. Opposed evolutionist.






17. 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.






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






19. The process of removing earth carefully and systemically from an area in order to find buried remains






20. Holistic study of humanity.






21. Indissoluble in Roman Catholic and Hindu. Pueblo Indians: woman simply leaves moccasins on the doorstep (NM -AZ) No divorce allowed in Malta - Philippines. Low divorce rate in Japan. Islam allows but discourages (3x limit)






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






29. Half way b/n tribe and state. Kin-based. Permanent group-based differencesin access to resources. Permanent Political Structure






30. (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






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






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






33. A theory stressing the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. (Emile Durkheim)






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






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






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






37. Seperation(leave) - Liminality(limbo) - Incorporation(rejoin).






38. Not universal. Evolved in last 10k years (surplus food - development of states). States are political system most likely to go to war






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






40. Thinker: social stratification






41. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






42. <40kya): Regional stone tool industries (Perigordian - Aurignacian - Solutrean - Magdelenian) - More complex - specialized - variety of tools. Regional artistic traditions. Homosapien - Neanderthal - Cro-magnon. Small Sculptures (E. Eur): Small - por






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






44. Cradle of mankind. tanzania (30m long) Leakey family (1950s) 7 layers. found tools of habillus and erectus.






45. 'Verbal Evaluation - Patterns of Association - symbolic Indicators(wealth/dress/job)'. Haviland






46. Early anthropologists such as E.B. Taylor and J.G. Frazer in England who worked mostly with materials collected by others - usually missionaries - traders - explorers - or colonial officials.






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






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






49. Improve welfare of people in underdeveloped countries (usually through economic growth).






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