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define "imperialist nostalgia"
a yearning for a ruined culture by one who has indirectly or directly participated in its destruction -- Frances Pohl
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the Great Plains
facts
- S.E. US
- sedentary hunter/gatherers
- male role: 1st responsibility to hunt food for family, but status defined by success in war.
- female role: in charge of home; made furnishings/home/clothing/baskets/arts
- Art: men-figural, women-abstract&geometric
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shields
- protective power, role of spirit beings
- more spiritually protective than physically
- made by men-- fasting, prayer, vision transferred to shield
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thunderbird
mythological creature represents upper world and sky; wings create thunder storms
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sacred pipe ceremony
- pipe link b/t earth and sky
- prayers in physical form
- fire = sun = source of life
- smoke = words, smoke goes out touches everything
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to achieve excellence in art:
- prayer
- instruction by example
- appropriate ritual preparation done by elders
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seven sacred work bags
- incense, paint, tools for sewing
- keepers of these bags = highest status
- (keepers of culture)
- needed to be present when hides painted
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4 corners states:
- Utah
- Colorado
- Arizona
- New Mexico
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what century did the Anasazi begin to move to cliff sides?
13th century
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Anasazi
name meanings
location
evolution of architecture
emergence and peak dates
- "ancient enemies", "ancient ancestors", "puebloans", "people of the past"
- located in southwest @ four corners
- emerged 200AD ---> peaked 1000AD
- architecture:::>
- 1. ~550-750 pit houses (ritual chambers)
- 2. 800AD+ masonry and adobe houses .... kivas
- 3. "pueblo" -villages
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Chaco Canyon
- 12 large pueblos
- 7 mile stretch of land
- metropolitan center (12-13th c.)
- center of wide trade network
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Mesa Verde
- cliff palace in Colorado
- 4000 sites (agri, living, towers, etc)
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kivas
2 types
functions
symbolism
"sipapu"
- types: round or rectangular
- functions: spiritual center for Anasazi life, male council house, ritual regalia stored, private rituals, prep for public ceremonies
- symbolism: map of the cosmos, served as point of entry to underworld of spirits, place where terrestrial and spiritual worlds meet
- "sipapu": hole in floor where ancient ancestors first emerged to enter present world
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