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DSST General Anthropology

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






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






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






4. Married couple + Kids (incl. Foster - adopted - natural children). Most common form in US.aka Conjugal Family






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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.






14. Cohesive set of myths (religion/belief system)






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






16. Determining the success of a project






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






18. Focusing efforts to implement positive change in a culture






19. Evaluate other groups according to OUR OWN standards (judging)






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






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






22. All the knowledge and values shared by a society






23. 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)






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






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






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






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






28. Family that raised you






29. (Foragers): Earliest and most stable form of human subsistence. Unit of production = Unit of Consumption. Of 150billion who have ever lived - 60% were HG. 99% of history as humans is as HG






30. 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.






31. Anthropologist: formation of personalities






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






33. 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






34. The skeletal remains of Homo erectus - found at Zhoukoudian - near Peking - China - in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II






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






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






37. By-product of grinding red ochre (magic powers) - Neolithic






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






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






40. Eg - Barter. Scarce goods from one group are exchanged for desirable goods from another group. Giver tries to come out on top. Ultimate form = taking by force.






41. Pueblco - Fremont - Missisippian






42. Change based on belief in inevitable advance of science and Western secularism. Industrial growth - consolidation of the state - bureaucratization - market economy - tech advances - literacy - social mobility






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






44. Found Australopathicus skull in 1959. Upright human footprints in 1978






45. Anthropologist: cross-cultural values






46. Collecting community data for use by development planners






47. Difference in the genes between different species or members of the same species - caused by the varying number of structure of the chromosome. Not all may be observable as phenotypic variations






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






49. 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






50. The scientific study of the structure - sounds - and meaning of language