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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






3. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






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






5. 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)






6. Relatives through marriage






7. Shorthand - Morse Code






8. Chopper-chopping tool industry (Pebble Industry). Wood -bone -stone tools. Homo Erectus. Hand-Axe (700kya): Abbevillian Industry (France) and later - Acheulian Industry (Eur/Af/As). Flake Stone Tools (flint): Clactonian Industry






9. Specialization in Indus Socs. Not in Tribal Socs (age/gender decides who does what). Amazon tribes specialize though






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






11. Non-industrial socs. People produce own food - but an elite controls a portion of production






12. Refined the Flake Stone Tools (flint): Mousterian Industry. Neanderthal Man.






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






14. Adenine - guanine - cytosine - thymine that form genetic code.






15. Hypertrophic horticulture among large populations






16. Used to date organic remains and rocks from 50 -000yrs ago to present (atomic physics)






17. The sex cell of a plant or animal may contain one factor (allele) for different traits but not both factors needed to express the traits


18. Common ancestor. Endogamy forbidden (regarded as incest). Can be Matriclan/Patriclan






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






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






21. 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)






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






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






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






25. 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)






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






27. Created by Setting upper grindstone at an angle when grinding red ochre=sharp edge=Celt (like a chisel or axe - Egypt)- Neolithic






28. People group: (S. Mesopotamia/Iraq). Advanced Tech (bronze tools/weapons). Writing (cuneiform) - law - educations - intellectual - economic. City-state government






29. Traces back to ONE person






30. <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






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






32. King of Babylon. had law code (discipline - order in society - pessimistic outlook) Sanctioned by the gods






33. 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]






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






35. Marks change in social or sexual status. Birth - Circumcision - Coming of Age - Wedding - Menopause - Death






36. Communication element. Represents a complex of person - object - group - or idea. Graphically or Representationally.






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






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






39. 1962; employ mine detectors. pulsed-induction meter and the soil-conductivity meter detect magnetic soil anomalies - only if the features are fairly shallow.






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






41. Set of rights and obligations inherent in a social position.






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






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






44. Large neolithic farming village in Turkey during 6700 B.C. - 5700 B.C.






45. A change or alteration in nitrogenous bases of DNA.






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






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






48. Earliest known bipedal hominid with ape like brain - ex. Lucy 3.2 mya. 400cc brain. Africa.






49. Melanesia (SW Pacific WWII+). Western goods created by ancestral spirits (intended for them - but controlled by whites).






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