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DSST General Anthropology

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






2. Characteristics are inherited independently from other characteristics

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






4. 1/2 Founder of Modern Anthropology. After River (more rigor). Studied American Indians (1880s documented) Coined 'Cultural Relativism'. Sat with elders to hear their historic accounts of their culture. [Salvage ethnography]






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






6. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; (Watson & Crick)






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






8. Thinkers: linguistics






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






10. Spread to Huang Ho (Yellow River Valley) of China - and SE Asia by 3500BC (millet and rice).- Neolithic






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






12. German archeologists who discovered the site of Troy in the late 1800's






13. Planned - rescue - and accidental.






14. An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects






15. (Veblen): Display of wealth by its owner for social prestige






16. 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.






17. The sum total of the genes carried by the individual members of the population






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






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






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






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






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






23. The study of the literal meanings and the interpretation of words.






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






25. (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)






26. Theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. (Talcott Parsons)






27. The earliest member of the genus Homo - ape-like - found on sites dating 2mya Dr. Leakey in Olduvai Gorge - Africa. 775cc brain (1/2 sapien) tool users. Lived 50 -000 years. 'handy man'






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






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






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






31. (Middle Stone Age): 10kya. Hunter/Gatherer (w/ fish). Baskets - Pots - - harpoons - canoes - store food. Holocene. Not much development in art - focused on inventions - diversification of subsistence strategies






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






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






34. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation






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






36. A group of sexually reproducing individuals (of the same species) mating with each other and sharing a common gene pool.






37. 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.






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






39. Goods flow to central place - and are distributed again (Eg -US Tax System). Reqs strong central political organization. Sometimes Prestige is derived from giving away valuables






40. Spread of something from one group to another






41. 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






42. Aborigine (dreamtime/totem)






43. 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.






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






45. Story with deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for a culture






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






47. Catarrhini (hooked nose). Asia - Africa - Europe. large mammals. ground dwellers. carniverous. harems/sexual dimorphism. non-prehensile tails (baboons - macaque - proboscic monkey.






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






49. (some people do it differently) Sex roles - religion - age roles






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