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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. Position from which members engage in social practices. (Sociology focuses on interrelationship/effect of status






3. First used in admin of British Colonies by Northcote Thomas in Nigeria in 1908. 'Age of Enlightenment'/Natural Science






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






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






6. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






7. (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest






8. 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)






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






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






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






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






13. Said anthropology is a 'Policy Science'. Urged for its use in improving the human condition. What is Culture - cross-cultural.






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. The non-living world. the area from the surface of earth down to its center.






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






20. USA/Mexico/C. Am. Corn (maize) - beans - squash 6500BC (village life not until 2k BC).- Neolithic






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






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






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






24. Anthropologist: Survival=Symbolic form of earlier custom (mock battle in nuptial rituals=vestige of actually 'capturing the bride'






25. All cultures accept. But only 20% of societies are considered strictly monogamous (one marriage per lifetime)






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






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






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






29. Lemurs - monkeys - Apes and humans. Prehensile/Grasping hands..Some-opposable thumb - larger males than females. flat fingernails.






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






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






32. A subdivision within the primate order based on shared anatomical primitive traits: side eyes - wet nose - nocturnal - dental combs






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






34. Structionalism. Amazon tribe. ethnographic.






35. (1940)archaeological prospecting employing electricity and magnetic fields. A method of large-scale oil prospecting: electrical conductivity present in the soil.






36. 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






37. Yanonamo Village invites another village. Social gathering/political alliances (like dinner party). Yan=deceiptful






38. Anthropologist: 12-volume comparative study of Religion (using ethnographic details) - evolution of religion from magic.






39. Civilization to invent 'zero'






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






41. Personal quirks: Get up at certain time - order of getting dressed - etc






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






43. The science dealing with the measurement of the human body to determine differences in individuals or groups






44. Essential mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin - and is the process by which those members of a particular species that are better adapted to their environment survive longer and produce more offspring than the poorer adapted.






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






46. Shorthand - Morse Code






47. Cluster of 3 or more sibs - clans - kinship groups considered a single unit (but retain sep IDs within) - Native Americans: Used animal sign to ID (Tlingit Tribe: Matri] - Intermarriage b/n phratries was mandated)






48. Religion. Most important intellectual development. Flourished b/c of weakening Egypt & annihilation of Hittites (1200BC)






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






50. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.