Anthropology 120 Final

Question 1

The Buffalo Skull

Answer 1

Sacred Skull used in sundance

Packed with herbs and painted

Question 2

Xaparia

Answer 2

Describes the sacred things in life

Specific to the plains indians

Question 3

Culture Area

Answer 3

Group of tribes more like each other than the tribes around them

Question 4

Crow Kinship Terminology

Answer 4

Almost always found in matrilineal society

Extended to all mother figures

Question 5

Significance of “The day the world ended at little big horn”

Answer 5

Describes the camp and lifestyle of Lakota

Question 6

Name 5 tribes of the Great Plains

Answer 6

Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Santee, Pawnee

Question 7

The great camp: three aspects

Answer 7

clustered in circles
tipis
10,000 indians

Question 8

Hunkpapa Lakota: sitting bull

Oglala Lakota: Crazy horse

Answer 8

Leaders of two tribes

Question 9

20-25 Buffalo hides

Answer 9

Amount for one tipi

Question 10

1000 lodge coverings

Answer 10

1000 tipis at camp

Question 11

1/2 hour down, 1/2 up: womens responsibility

Answer 11

time to build tipis

Question 12

Sitting Bulls Vision

Answer 12

Saw American soldiers falling out of the sky into the camp

Question 13

Earth Ceremonial Cache

Answer 13

Buried offering of various objects

Question 14

Ethnographic present

Answer 14

Talking about Lakota or other groups as if they were existing today
Present tense

Question 15

European Upper paleolithic life/ Plains indian way of life

Answer 15

Very similar way of life so we compare them

Question 16

Paleolithic mobiliary art: evidence

Answer 16

individual pieces of ivory that show horses with bridals

Question 17

Pyrrhic Victory

Answer 17

Victory that cost too much

Culture and people lost

Question 18

Little Big Man

Answer 18

Made fun of the white man in western frontier

Question 19

Contraries

Answer 19

Band of warriors that for iniation had to do everything backwards

Question 20

Berdache

Answer 20

Man decides not to be warrior
Does woman job
Still respected

Question 21

Plains culture as perfected and refined

Answer 21

Over 8.000 years perfectly adapted to environment

Question 22

Travois

Answer 22

Trailor of a horse upon which things can get pilled and moved

Question 23

Summer Solstice/ Sun Dance

Answer 23

Longes day of the year

Sundance held then

Question 24

Female Virtue Feast

Answer 24

Female power celebrated

Question 25

Matrifocality

Answer 25

Strength of maternal power

Question 26

Bighorn medicine wheel: Three aspects

Answer 26

Sacred circular form altar center for offerings Used by 10 different tribes

Question 27

U shaped inclosures

Answer 27

Middle of medicine wheel | Used for getting visions

Question 28

Red plumes vision

Answer 28

vision from medicine wheel | dwarves who adopted him

Question 29

Significance of Ethnological Comparison | Aku'aba and Katsintihu

Answer 29

Determine similarities between two objects | Figurines

Question 30

Ashanti location compared to hopi location

Answer 30

Ashanti- Tropical rainforest | Hopi- High desert

Question 31

Importance of clans

Answer 31

matriclans | Clan of super importance

Question 32

Apotropaic

Answer 32

Pushed evil away

Question 33

Protropaic

Answer 33

Drew goodness in

Question 34

Proleptical Expectation

Answer 34

Illustrate in the present what you want to happen in the future

Question 35

Dominant Symbol

Answer 35

Inderstood by almost everyone in a culture

Question 36

Ebony Significance

Answer 36

Strength of maternal wood

Question 37

Cottonwood significance

Answer 37

Carve Katsina out of cottonwood | Water seeking

Question 38

Ethnoaesthetics

Answer 38

Study of a culture idea of beauty

Question 39

Life Cycle

Answer 39

Primary biological changes someone lives through | Female focus

Question 40

Figurines: three similarities

Answer 40

Both hold a magical attatchment Primarily spiritual Made from wood

Question 41

Figurines: three differences

Answer 41

Color Tyype of wood and meaning Sexual reference

Question 42

Draw an Ashanti Village from above

Answer 42

Draw

Question 43

Draw a Hopi village from above

Answer 43

draw

Question 44

Spatial logic of both villages

Answer 44

identical

Question 45

Three aspects of dominant symbols

Answer 45

Pervasiveness Ambiguity Religious/ Spiritual dimensions

Question 46

Plains Indians use of Circles: Six uses

Answer 46

``` Dwelling (tipi) Winter count @ Fire kept perfectly round star cycles horizon aspect Sun and moon circular ```

Question 47

Eliade: Myth of the eternal return

Answer 47

Revolving circle(life)

Question 48

Sun dance

Answer 48

The most important plains ceremony | Summer solstice

Question 49

Path of Power: Suns energy

Answer 49

Expected to be at it its most generous of sharing | Longest day

Question 50

5 phases of sun dance

Answer 50

``` pledging purification sweat lodge ordeal deconstruction ```

Question 51

What happens in the ordeal (sun dance)

Answer 51

snguinary sacrifice | suspension

Question 52

Sanguinary Sacrifice

Answer 52

Blood sacrifice | Noticed by the sun

Question 53

Auto sacrifice

Answer 53

Self Sacrifice

Question 54

Draw and label the village during the sun dance

Answer 54

draw

Question 55

10,000 Lakota and Cheyenne

Answer 55

Largest gathering and sun dance before custer attacked

Question 56

Custers arrogance

Answer 56

Kicked sacred bison skull

Question 57

Vision quest

Answer 57

individual hopes to help himself while seeking vision

Question 58

Describe the "vision" in vision quest

Answer 58

a humble ordeal | an animal figure can appear

Question 59

Totalizing Immanence

Answer 59

Spirits can be found in anything

Question 60

Medicine bundle

Answer 60

group of objects bundled together that have magical power

Question 61

Imitative magic

Answer 61

things that look like other things have those things' power (eagle figurine)

Question 62

Contagious magic

Answer 62

Things that are magical that you can borrow and own

Question 63

Frazer: the golden bough

Answer 63

Proved this magic exists in all cultures