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Anthropology 120 Flashcards

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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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18
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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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20
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Freudian Fallacy

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Restricted Austrian sample

Did not take in account all cultures

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21
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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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23
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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

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Represented by Mickey Mouse

Average middle class

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Sacred an Profane

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Human Beings define things as either sacred or profane (Profane- not sacred)

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Simple Map of Dsneyland

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Sacred castel surriunded by sacred figures

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28
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Mythogeography

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Places on land that belong to your myth

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Two aspects of a castle

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portectice and aggressive

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30
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Dominant Symbol

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Known by monst people in a culture

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31
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Multivalent Symbol

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defferent levels of meaning

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32
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Classic disney films as central “myths”

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American myths

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33
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Red Yellow Green

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Symbols that hold a meaning in our culture

Go, Stop ETC

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Overvaluing/ Undervaluing of Kinship

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Levi Strauss

Structural analysis of Myth

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Oedipus and the Sphinx

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Levi Strauss

36
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Up and down directions

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In our culture up for heaven down for hell

Opposite for Hopi

37
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Kiva

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Underground Church

38
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Sipapu

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Opening in floor of Kiva

39
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Levi-Strauss on material culture

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Don’t ignore material culture

Has clues into culture

40
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Tata

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Site

Earliest symbol found there (disc with cross)

41
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Dante’s Underworld

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Hell&fire

Underground unlike Hopi

42
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Hopi Underworld

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heaven underground opposite of dantes

43
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European Cathedral

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Upward towards sky and heaven

44
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The Triad

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Americans organize things in 3’s

Church trinity

45
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The frame

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Americans put special things in frames

pictures

46
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Hogan compromise

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Navajo fought for Hogans instead of square houses and won

47
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Curvilinearity

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non straight lines

48
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Sphere as the world form

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Pueblo organization of the world

Cite natural circular forms like the moon and clouds

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50%/80%

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50% for Navajo holding onto culture

80% for Hopi

50
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Athabascan

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Language family that the Navajo belong to from NW Canada

51
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Origin of Navajo

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NW Canada

52
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Matrilineal

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Women based culture

inherit everything through mother

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Matrilocal

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When you get married you live in the vicinity of your mother in law with wife

54
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Totem

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Clan name chosen from plant or animal

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Eponymous

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Choosing the name of your clan from something natural

56
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Yei:

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Draw

57
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Katsina

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Draw

58
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Whirling Logs

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Sandpainting used for healing

sit in the middle and absorb powers from God

59
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Location of Hopi reservation

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NE Arizona

In the middle of Navajo reservation

60
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Navajo Pre-Reservation

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Nomadic through Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado

61
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Hopi Pre-reservation

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Same place NE Arizona

62
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Dine

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Navajo name for themselves “The people”

63
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Hopitu

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Hopi name for themselves “peaceful people”

64
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Socio-Political status of Navajo

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bands

65
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Family type Navajo and Hopi

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matrilineal family

66
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Settlement type: Navajo

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Hogan Cluster

67
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Settlement Type: Hopi

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Pueblo Cluster

68
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Residence rule Navajo and Hopi

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matrilocal- grandmother or mother in law controls

Guy has to live with mother in law’s family

69
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Clan Importance Navajo and Hopi

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Overwhelmingly important

Also no inter clan marriages

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Descent Rule Navajo and Hopi

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Matrilineal

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Subsistence Navajo Pre- reservation/ Reservation

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Pre- Hunting and gathering

Res- More farming

72
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Draw kinship diagram for either Hopi or Navajo and label mother

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draw

73
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Redistribution

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Mother redistributes mainly food

up to mother leader to be fair matriarch

74
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Navajo Religion 3 aspects

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peace, harmony, beauty

75
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Hopi religion 3 aspects

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harvest, fertility, group blessing

76
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Navajo/ Hopi art

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Both concerned with religion

Both make enough money through it to survive

77
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Ethnohistory

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History written by conquers

78
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Ethnohistory of Navajo and Hopi

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Write their own culture now

79
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Changing woman

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most important goddess or mother (Navajo)

80
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Asdza Nadlehe

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Name of Goddess in Navajo for changing woman

81
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Saah Naaghai Bikeh Hozho

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“May you live a longtime in happiness”

Best blessing you can receive

82
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SNBH

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abbreviation for Saah Naaghai Bikeh Hozho

“May you live long in happiness”

83
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Niilchi

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Holy Wind

84
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Outer guise and inner form

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outer guise- physical outer appearance

inner form- spirit

85
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Shiima as multivalent

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mother of group

has many references (can be an aunt or something else)

Anthropology 120/130 (4 decks)

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