ANTH 316gm Study Guide - Final Guide: American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee Massacre, Indigenous Languages Of The Americas
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Had treaties that exempted their land from colonization. Were printing, had a high literacy rate. Iroquois = northeast section of us, fairly advanced, exerted military strength. Anthropocentric: humankind is most important element of existence, opposed to. Shamanism: a person that has access to spirits, entered altered state of consciousness through drumming. Androcentric: no female creator, all other animals were created for humans. History: often written by the conquerors, is written down, can be more biased history: the past, oral. What are some other ways of thinking about the past, such as archaeology, ethnohistory, legends, folklore, anthropology, etc. He set up the academic track in anthropology. Study of human activity through recovery and analysis of material culture. Study of cultures and indigenous peoples" customs by examining historical records and other info about their lives. Legends: certain level of truth value, not scientific, could possibly be true. Tales: not in real world, moral lesson, way of teaching.
