Anthropology 120 Flashcards
(85 cards)
Hopi Burial
- Sitting Up
- Butterfly Bowl (broken)
Four-Mile Polychrome
- Ancient Hopi
- Ceramic style
Site/Characteristic
- Site: Four mile
- Characteristic: Polychrome (multicolor)
Iconography
-Study of sacred symbols
Altimira Bison
- Spain
- Oldest painting
Long Hair Katsina
-Rain
Inuit
- Alaskan & Artic
- Band (simplest organization)
Churinga
-Spirit Map (Aboriginal)
The Dreaming
-Realm or world
King Tut: Historian’s Interest
-How King Tut fits in Egyptian culture & civilization)
King Tut: Anthropology’s Interest
-How King Tut is similar to other civilizations (similar architecture & civilization) CHECK
Pacal’s Tomb
- Pyramid used for burial
- Proved new world pyramids have royal tombs
Pictograph
-Painting or drawing on rock
Petroglyph
- Expression carved or scratched into a rock
- Found in Canyon de Chelly CHECK
BA-LA-MA Draw the glyph
- BA head circle
- LA body circle
- MA leg circles
Kwakiutl Pole: Characteristics
- Deep carvings
- Carved 360’
- Bright colors
Haida Pole: characteristics
- Wide top platform for burials
- Parallel sides
Monoxylic
-Carved from a single piece of wood
Chimeras
Mixture of human and animal characteristics
Freudian Fallacy
Restricted Austrian sample
Did not take in account all cultures
Three Meanings of Katsina
doll, dancer, spirit
Maya, Inca, Aztec significance
Free from European influence
Mickey mouse: personality
Happy/ childlike/ optomism
Cephalocaudal
Infant like
Large head