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Anthropology 120 Final Flashcards

1
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The Buffalo Skull

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Sacred Skull used in sundance

Packed with herbs and painted

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Xaparia

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Describes the sacred things in life

Specific to the plains indians

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Culture Area

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

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4
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Crow Kinship Terminology

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Almost always found in matrilineal society

Extended to all mother figures

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5
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Significance of “The day the world ended at little big horn”

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Describes the camp and lifestyle of Lakota

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6
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Name 5 tribes of the Great Plains

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Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Santee, Pawnee

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7
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The great camp: three aspects

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clustered in circles
tipis
10,000 indians

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8
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Hunkpapa Lakota: sitting bull

Oglala Lakota: Crazy horse

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Leaders of two tribes

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9
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20-25 Buffalo hides

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Amount for one tipi

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10
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1000 lodge coverings

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1000 tipis at camp

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

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time to build tipis

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12
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Sitting Bulls Vision

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Saw American soldiers falling out of the sky into the camp

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13
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Earth Ceremonial Cache

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Buried offering of various objects

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14
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Ethnographic present

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

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15
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European Upper paleolithic life/ Plains indian way of life

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Very similar way of life so we compare them

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16
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Paleolithic mobiliary art: evidence

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individual pieces of ivory that show horses with bridals

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17
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Pyrrhic Victory

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Victory that cost too much

Culture and people lost

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18
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Little Big Man

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Made fun of the white man in western frontier

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19
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Contraries

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Band of warriors that for iniation had to do everything backwards

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20
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Berdache

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Man decides not to be warrior
Does woman job
Still respected

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21
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Plains culture as perfected and refined

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Over 8.000 years perfectly adapted to environment

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22
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Travois

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

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23
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Summer Solstice/ Sun Dance

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Longes day of the year

Sundance held then

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24
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Female Virtue Feast

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Female power celebrated

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25
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Matrifocality

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Strength of maternal power

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26
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Bighorn medicine wheel: Three aspects

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

27
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U shaped inclosures

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Middle of medicine wheel

Used for getting visions

28
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Red plumes vision

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vision from medicine wheel

dwarves who adopted him

29
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Significance of Ethnological Comparison

Aku’aba and Katsintihu

A

Determine similarities between two objects

Figurines

30
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Ashanti location compared to hopi location

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Ashanti- Tropical rainforest

Hopi- High desert

31
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Importance of clans

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matriclans

Clan of super importance

32
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Apotropaic

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Pushed evil away

33
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Protropaic

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Drew goodness in

34
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Proleptical Expectation

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

35
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Dominant Symbol

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Inderstood by almost everyone in a culture

36
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Ebony Significance

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Strength of maternal wood

37
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Cottonwood significance

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Carve Katsina out of cottonwood

Water seeking

38
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Ethnoaesthetics

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Study of a culture idea of beauty

39
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Life Cycle

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Primary biological changes someone lives through

Female focus

40
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Figurines: three similarities

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Both hold a magical attatchment
Primarily spiritual
Made from wood

41
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Figurines: three differences

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Color
Tyype of wood and meaning
Sexual reference

42
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Draw an Ashanti Village from above

A

Draw

43
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Draw a Hopi village from above

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draw

44
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Spatial logic of both villages

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identical

45
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Three aspects of dominant symbols

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Pervasiveness
Ambiguity
Religious/ Spiritual dimensions

46
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Plains Indians use of Circles: Six uses

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Dwelling (tipi)
Winter count @
Fire kept perfectly round
star cycles
horizon aspect
Sun and moon circular
47
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Eliade: Myth of the eternal return

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Revolving circle(life)

48
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Sun dance

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The most important plains ceremony

Summer solstice

49
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Path of Power: Suns energy

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Expected to be at it its most generous of sharing

Longest day

50
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5 phases of sun dance

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pledging
purification
sweat lodge
ordeal
deconstruction
51
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What happens in the ordeal (sun dance)

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snguinary sacrifice

suspension

52
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Sanguinary Sacrifice

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Blood sacrifice

Noticed by the sun

53
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Auto sacrifice

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Self Sacrifice

54
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Draw and label the village during the sun dance

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draw

55
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10,000 Lakota and Cheyenne

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Largest gathering and sun dance before custer attacked

56
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Custers arrogance

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Kicked sacred bison skull

57
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Vision quest

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individual hopes to help himself while seeking vision

58
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Describe the “vision” in vision quest

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a humble ordeal

an animal figure can appear

59
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Totalizing Immanence

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Spirits can be found in anything

60
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Medicine bundle

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group of objects bundled together that have magical power

61
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Imitative magic

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

62
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Contagious magic

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Things that are magical that you can borrow and own

63
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Frazer: the golden bough

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Proved this magic exists in all cultures

Anthropology 120/130 (4 decks)

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