REL-1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Lightning, Fire Pit, Kachina
Document Summary
Naive american estheics: sensory environments built by naive peoples. Overview: indigenous vs world religions, estheics foundaional, religion develops with agriculture estheic producion in the american southwest, chaco canyon and mesa verde, spanish invasion, modern pueblo estheics. Atalatal throwing: poverty point, louisiana is one example. Spiritual power: arts of huning and war, arrowheads, the art of making the arrow shat and picking the stone and the feathers, estheic dimension to something very rudimentary. Wupatki ruins ball court, arizona: ball games used as a way to setle dispute and a ritual process of opposing teams and some kind of serious consequences (being, land, capives) Anasazi: around the 4 corners area, ancestral pueblo cultures (1300-900 ce, scholars think that during the height of their existence there were more people in the chaco world in 1000 than there are today. Possibly because of climate change and deforestaion of this area. Diicult to inhabitate these regions today because they are so hot and dry.
