Anthropology 120 Flashcards

(85 cards)

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Hopi Burial

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  • Sitting Up

- Butterfly Bowl (broken)

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Four-Mile Polychrome

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  • Ancient Hopi

- Ceramic style

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Site/Characteristic

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  • Site: Four mile

- Characteristic: Polychrome (multicolor)

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Iconography

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-Study of sacred symbols

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Altimira Bison

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  • Spain

- Oldest painting

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Long Hair Katsina

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-Rain

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Inuit

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  • Alaskan & Artic

- Band (simplest organization)

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Churinga

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-Spirit Map (Aboriginal)

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The Dreaming

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-Realm or world

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King Tut: Historian’s Interest

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-How King Tut fits in Egyptian culture & civilization)

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King Tut: Anthropology’s Interest

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-How King Tut is similar to other civilizations (similar architecture & civilization) CHECK

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Pacal’s Tomb

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  • Pyramid used for burial

- Proved new world pyramids have royal tombs

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Pictograph

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-Painting or drawing on rock

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Petroglyph

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  • Expression carved or scratched into a rock

- Found in Canyon de Chelly CHECK

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BA-LA-MA Draw the glyph

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  • BA head circle
  • LA body circle
  • MA leg circles
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Kwakiutl Pole: Characteristics

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  • Deep carvings
  • Carved 360’
  • Bright colors
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Haida Pole: characteristics

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  • Wide top platform for burials

- Parallel sides

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Monoxylic

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-Carved from a single piece of wood

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Chimeras

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Mixture of human and animal characteristics

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Freudian Fallacy

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Restricted Austrian sample

Did not take in account all cultures

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Three Meanings of Katsina

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doll, dancer, spirit

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Maya, Inca, Aztec significance

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Free from European influence

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Mickey mouse: personality

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Happy/ childlike/ optomism

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Cephalocaudal

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Infant like

Large head

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American Everyman
Represented by Mickey Mouse | Average middle class
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Sacred an Profane
Human Beings define things as either sacred or profane (Profane- not sacred)
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Simple Map of Dsneyland
Sacred castel surriunded by sacred figures
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Mythogeography
Places on land that belong to your myth
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Two aspects of a castle
portectice and aggressive
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Dominant Symbol
Known by monst people in a culture
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Multivalent Symbol
defferent levels of meaning
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Classic disney films as central "myths"
American myths
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Red Yellow Green
Symbols that hold a meaning in our culture | Go, Stop ETC
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Overvaluing/ Undervaluing of Kinship
Levi Strauss | Structural analysis of Myth
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Oedipus and the Sphinx
Levi Strauss
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Up and down directions
In our culture up for heaven down for hell | Opposite for Hopi
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Kiva
Underground Church
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Sipapu
Opening in floor of Kiva
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Levi-Strauss on material culture
Don't ignore material culture | Has clues into culture
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Tata
Site | Earliest symbol found there (disc with cross)
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Dante's Underworld
Hell&fire | Underground unlike Hopi
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Hopi Underworld
heaven underground opposite of dantes
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European Cathedral
Upward towards sky and heaven
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The Triad
Americans organize things in 3's | Church trinity
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The frame
Americans put special things in frames | pictures
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Hogan compromise
Navajo fought for Hogans instead of square houses and won
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Curvilinearity
non straight lines
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Sphere as the world form
Pueblo organization of the world | Cite natural circular forms like the moon and clouds
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50%/80%
50% for Navajo holding onto culture | 80% for Hopi
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Athabascan
Language family that the Navajo belong to from NW Canada
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Origin of Navajo
NW Canada
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Matrilineal
Women based culture | inherit everything through mother
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Matrilocal
When you get married you live in the vicinity of your mother in law with wife
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Totem
Clan name chosen from plant or animal
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Eponymous
Choosing the name of your clan from something natural
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Yei:
Draw
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Katsina
Draw
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Whirling Logs
Sandpainting used for healing | sit in the middle and absorb powers from God
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Location of Hopi reservation
NE Arizona | In the middle of Navajo reservation
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Navajo Pre-Reservation
Nomadic through Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado
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Hopi Pre-reservation
Same place NE Arizona
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Dine
Navajo name for themselves "The people"
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Hopitu
Hopi name for themselves "peaceful people"
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Socio-Political status of Navajo
bands
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Family type Navajo and Hopi
matrilineal family
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Settlement type: Navajo
Hogan Cluster
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Settlement Type: Hopi
Pueblo Cluster
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Residence rule Navajo and Hopi
matrilocal- grandmother or mother in law controls | Guy has to live with mother in law's family
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Clan Importance Navajo and Hopi
Overwhelmingly important | Also no inter clan marriages
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Descent Rule Navajo and Hopi
Matrilineal
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Subsistence Navajo Pre- reservation/ Reservation
Pre- Hunting and gathering | Res- More farming
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Draw kinship diagram for either Hopi or Navajo and label mother
draw
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Redistribution
Mother redistributes mainly food | up to mother leader to be fair matriarch
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Navajo Religion 3 aspects
peace, harmony, beauty
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Hopi religion 3 aspects
harvest, fertility, group blessing
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Navajo/ Hopi art
Both concerned with religion | Both make enough money through it to survive
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Ethnohistory
History written by conquers
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Ethnohistory of Navajo and Hopi
Write their own culture now
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Changing woman
most important goddess or mother (Navajo)
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Asdza Nadlehe
Name of Goddess in Navajo for changing woman
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Saah Naaghai Bikeh Hozho
"May you live a longtime in happiness" | Best blessing you can receive
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SNBH
abbreviation for Saah Naaghai Bikeh Hozho | "May you live long in happiness"
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Niilchi
Holy Wind
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Outer guise and inner form
outer guise- physical outer appearance | inner form- spirit
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Shiima as multivalent
mother of group | has many references (can be an aunt or something else)