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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. 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.






3. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






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






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






6. Penalty for violating moral principle or law. Larger society=more formal sanction






7. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. Ethnographic fieldwork - reciprocity - Pacific Islands. After Rivers (more rigor) 'Participant Observation'. WWI spent 2 years in Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)






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






9. 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)






10. Primary form of support for existing political leadership. Based on internal values of the people - not so much coercion






11. Anthropologist: (early 1900s): Culture = combination of universals - alternatives - specialties - individual peculiarities. The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)






12. The study of the principles and rules that regulate word structure in language.






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






14. Man marries widow of his dead brother






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






16. Mexico - sun/war/civilization gods - subord women - human sacrifice - cannibalism - time/calendars. Caste system - architecture - learning and the arts - polytheistic - pictorial alphabet






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






18. The study of the different sounds employed by language.






19. 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






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






21. A social bond based on common ancestry - marriage - or adoption






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






23. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






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






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






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






27. Associated with Julian Steward - study of adaptation of social culture to natural resources and other human groups.






28. The 2nd in the three stages of the evolution theory developed by Lewis Henry Morgan. (Domestication of animals - cultivation)






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






30. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical characteristics that larger brains - binocular vision - parental care - longer gestational period - slower maturation.






31. Symbols that provide info about a person or object (red light=danger)






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






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






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






35. Determining the success of a project






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






37. A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food - clothing - and shelter.






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






39. Milan (1957) probe penetrates burial chambers and photographs walls and contents.






40. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






42. Ways to date artifacts






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






44. A systematic and detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork - direct contact - and qualitive research.






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






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






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






48. Gene flow usually occuring in humans as a result of actual migration of populations (either forced or voluntary).






49. 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.






50. Ritual of Greek Citizenship