Rels 2001 Midterm Study Guide Fall 2014 Your midterm exam will be a combination of objective and short answer questions. The content of the exam will be the theorists‚ terms‚ and concepts covered in class discussions as well as the required course readings. It is suggested that along with using this study guide‚ you review the PowerPoints on D2L along with your notes and Coursepack. Objective questions may be in the form of multiple choice or true/false. Short answer questions will concern the
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Feb. 25‚ 2008 Touching the Timeless A world view is a set if images and assumptions about how the world came to be‚ its design‚ and people’s place in it. All over the world there are different ways of looking at and perceiving the world. There are five World View Universals: self and other‚ relationship‚ classification‚ causality‚ and space and time. For the Huichol and Navajo their world view has many factors contributing to how they view health and illness. The Huichol Indians live in the
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In The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve the medicine bag is symbolic in Native American culture. A medicine bag is a small pouch‚ worn by some Native American people‚ that contains items associated with spiritual healing. This ties into the mythology and beliefs of Native American people. The mythology involving a medicine bag is they contain amulets or herbal remedies‚ or other sacred objects. Usually a shaman or medicine man carries a medicine bag. When a boy in a tribe is of age
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Totem poles are symbolic sculptures that originated in some of the native tribes of North America. They can represent stories‚ someone’s life‚ they can even be a family tree! Most of them have things such as animals on them. My totem pole is a timeline of my past‚ present‚ and future that is represented by animals. I feel that the turtle and the panther best represent who I was in the past. The turtle represents shyness. I actually used to be a really crazy and outgoing kid‚ but when I got into
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Kinship Systems: Inuit of the artic Dorothy Young ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Christopher Deere December 16‚ 2011 Kinship Systems: Inuit of the Artic The Inuit people have adapted quite well living in the extreme cold of the artic. They live in the artic area of native North America. Commonly called “Eskimo”‚ their territory extends more than five thousand miles along the Arctic Circle from Russia‚ Alaska‚ and northern Canada to Greenland. They are a people who have
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American Indian Conjuring Brett Gibbons Northland Pioneer College Conjuring is said to be the second-oldest profession in the world‚ and may well be the oldest of the theatrical arts. It was the carefully guarded weapon of the priesthood used to establish a belief in supernatural powers among an uninformed public (Randi‚ 1992‚ p.XI). The dictionary defines a conjuror as “a person who practices legerdemain [sleight of hand]; juggler“. (Webster’s College Dictionary‚ 1992‚ p. 281). Another
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Body Rituals of the Nacirema Tribe By Sir Horatio Galbraith People in the Nacirema culture spend a considerable portion of their days in ritual activity. The focus of some of these activities is the human body‚ the appearance and health of which loom as a dominant concern in the minds of the tribe’s people. While such a concern is certainly not unusual‚ the way the tribe operates can be considered quite unique. The fundamental belief of the people appears to be that the human body is ugly and
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At first glance‚ it might seem that culturally-advanced and deep-thinking Americans have relatively little in common with the comparatively narcissistic‚ shallow‚ and primitive Nacirema‚ who carve out an existence somewhere between "the Canadian Cree‚ the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico‚ and the Carab and the Awawak of the Antilles" ("Body Ritual among the Nacirema‚ p. 1). Who could even think to compare Americans‚ in our advanced state‚ with such a remote and isolated group? However‚ upon closer
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Sureyya Kahraman The Canela Indians of Brazil. The Canela people are native people who live in the upper east portion of Brazil. They live in the Eastern part of the Brazilian State of Maranhao‚ in a Savanna and woodland area with stream edge forests. They inhibit an area between the wet Amazon basin and the dry Northeast. While most of the Canelas cultural cousins live in the Amazon basin‚ the waters of the Canela’s region flow directly north into the Atlantic. The Canela traditionally live in
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In the article “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner‚ he writes about a North American group known as the “Nacirema”‚ who were described by Professor Linton in the early twentieth century. In the article described‚ the “Nacirema” are a cultural group who seem to be obsessed with rituals they perform in regards to the human body on a day-to-day basis. These people believe that the human body is ugly and debilitating and are described to waste great portions of their days performing the
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