Northwest Coast Tribal Masks This paper describes the Sea Bear Transformation Mask‚ created by Don Svanvik in 2000‚ and how it reflects Northwest Coast Indian art and culture‚ specific to the Kwakiutl tribe. A transformation mask is a large mask with hinged shutters that‚ when open‚ reveal another mask. Audrey and Alan Bleviss gave this mask to the Montclair Art Museum in 2005. The medium consists of red cedar‚ cedar bark‚ copper‚ pigment‚ and string. In the Montclair Art Museum‚ the mask is displayed
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205). Yet‚ if someone used this term for every kind feast they could oversimplify on occasion. Such celebrations have often helped maintain the social fabric. For example‚ in the Pacific Northeast‚ Indian tribes had the "Potlatch" (208). Part of the ceremony was providing guests with large amounts of food. Some of the observers called the ceremony barbaric. Yet they did not look at their own customs‚ for example the waste associated with Thanksgiving or
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This is not an easy book‚ but it is a classic (first pub. 1923- 1925) and an insightful book for any serious student of sociology or anthropology. Mauss provides a view of human evolution‚ based on empirical research comparing exchange worldwide. Implicit in this analysis is a theory of change (Mary Douglas’ foreword‚ p. xiii): “changes in the organization of production radically transform the system of categories and beliefs.” Understanding archaic societies helps us understand our own.
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What is Money? At first sight the answer to this question seems obvious. A man or woman in the street would agree on coins and banknote which could be known as checks‚ for a good or a service but would they accept them from any country? They would probably be less willing to accept them than their own country’s coins and notes but bank money actually accounts for by far the greatest proportion by value of the total supply of money. Credit cards and gold are some what different. The gold standard
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Interior Indians * Located between the Brooks Range and the Alaska Range. * 11 different ethnic-linguistic groups that are further divided into regional and local bands. * Flexible and adaptive people. * Patterns of Settlement vary between sedentary to nomadic. * Population estimated to be around 11‚000. Food and Diet * The two main emphases are Salmon and Caribou. * Since the range of the Athabaskans is so great‚ the diet changes between different groups. * Beaver
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AS1 14/15 - Why has gift exchange been a seminal topic in social anthropology? Gift exchange within social anthropology became a more expanded and discussed topic after Malinowki’s writings on the Trobian Islanders throughout the period of the First World War. In this writing he discussed the rituals involved in the Kula ring in his ground breaking research write up in the book "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" (Malinowski‚ 1922). This was shortly followed by the writings in Marcel Mauss’ "The
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man who knows his basement request‚ so he drop out from Harvard University‚ to create his own realm. After becoming successful‚ he is not disturbed by his fame‚ he donates 99% of his stock right‚ because he does not need theses. He even build up Potlatch‚ which used to exchanging information and ideas‚ only for sharing. Henry David Thoreau shared the same characterizations with him‚ he understood the truth to become happy‚ he gave up everything to live in the wood for simple life. Both of their actions
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In the world‚ there are many kinds of Indians and this includes the Native Americans. They were the first people who were in America‚ and lived in America for many centuries. There are also many different tribes and the Inuit was one of them‚ or so many think. Actually‚ the Inuit aren’t Native American‚ but they are neighbors to the Native Americans for they look like the Indians‚ their culture ‚ traditions and their language are similarly endangered. They are the Arctic people and they came from
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Anthropology 2 Midterm Study Guide: Professor Li Zhang Midterm Date: October 30‚ 2012 Week 1 What is the scope of cultural anthropology? Discuss its focus of inquiry‚ approach‚ and major changes over time. ● Cultural anthropology is concerned with the nature and extent of social and cultural differences among different societies. Focus on Inquiry: Why there are different cultures and how they came about and are affected or changing. Focus on Approach: Approaches could be urban
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the aboriginal suffered so much. The Indian act provided the federal government the power to control what aboriginal people can and cannot do. It was due to the Indian Act many crucial Aboriginal cultural ceremonies‚ such as the Sun Dance and the Potlatch‚ were banned. The Aboriginals had fewer rights and privileges compared to the rest of
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