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Habitat and Humanity Test 3
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 3
04/16/2008

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Approximately how long did it take to construct an iglu?
Definition
~1 hour
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What is the average size of an iglu?
Definition
12-27 feet
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Who built the Iglu?
Definition

Males only

-or-

Sometimes males and females/children, but with male on inside and females on outside 

Term
What is Sedna?
Definition

"spirit" who in human form sacrificed herself for humans, fell to bottom of sea, and became the goddess of the sea, life, sustinence, regineration, etc. 

Term
In B.E.S, the red road ran...
Definition
N to S
Term
In B.E.S., the black road ran
Definition
E to W
Term
What objects did the maidens get, and at which directions?
Definition

N - herb and goose wing

S - flowering stick

E - pipe

W - hoop of the world 

Term
On B.E.'s sacred tipi, what was painted on which direction?
Definition

W = a bow and cup of water

N = white geese and the herb

E = day break star and the pipe

S = flowering stick and the nation's hoop 

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What was painted over the door of B.E.'s sacred tipi for the horse dance?
Definition
a flaming rainbow
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The horses/horsemen are painted what colors at which directions?
Definition

W = Black

N = White

E = Red

S = Yellow 

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On the phylogeny charts, males are depicted as ______ while females are depicted as _______.
Definition
triangles; circles
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What is an icon?
Definition
an image believed to "participate," be linked to, what it is an image of (and qualities associated with it).
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What herb is common in Indian ceremony, especially B.E.S?
Definition
sage
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What is the name of the Lakota/Indian God?
Definition
wakan tanka
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What purpose does sweating serve?
Definition
purification, preparation for contact w/ deity
Term
The fire of a sweathouse is called...
Definition
fire of no end
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In what direction is the entrance of the sweat lodge?
Definition
E
Term
What is the name of the Lakota sweat lodge?
Definition
Initipi
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What is initipi?
Definition
Lakota sweat lodge
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Movement from the fire, across the earth mound, down the sacred path, and into the sweat lodge can be considered __________ and goes in what direction?
Definition
graduated sanctity, east to west
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What are the four features of a sweat lodge?
Definition
fire "of no end," earth mound, sacred path, and the actual sweat lodge structure
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To the Lakota, what does the earth mound represent?
Definition
womb
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What type of stone is used in the sweat lodge?
Definition
"lava rock," and also sandstone?
Term
The anthropological term for marriage is ______.
Definition
affinity
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What is affinity?
Definition
the anthropological term for marriage
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What is consanguinity?
Definition
the anthropological term for "blood relation" or "descent"
Term
What is the anthropological term for "descent" or "blood relation"?
Definition
consanguinity
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What are the four styles of roofs that we have studied?
Definition
gable, hipped, hipped gable, pavilion
Term
According to Fujimori, which aspects of traditional japanese style houses are the most important?
Definition
floor and roof
Term
What is the name of the sliding walls INSIDE a traditional japanese style house?
Definition
fusuma
Term
What is a fusuma?
Definition
sliding screen wall inside a traditional style house
Term
What is a shoji?
Definition
outside sliding wall of a traditional style japanese house
Term
What is the name of an outside sliding wall of a traditional style japanese house?
Definition
Shoji
Term
What is a tatami?
Definition
3'x6' woven grass (rush) mat used as flooring for traditional japanese style houses
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What is the typical dimension of a tatami?
Definition
3'x6'
Term
How were houses traditionally measured in Japan?
Definition
by the number of tatami mats
Term
What are tatami made of?
Definition
woven grass (rush)
Term
What is the name of measurement for the tatami?
Definition
Ken
Term
What is "ma"?
Definition

interval, space between things

 

here, space itself is an aspect of composition 

Term
What is the Japanese term for the "space between things" ?
Definition
ma
Term
What is Minka?
Definition
Japanese "style" of housing, rural farmhouses
Term
What is Shoin?
Definition
Japanese "style" of houses, tea houses
Term
What is a bashira?
Definition
post in traditional japanese style houses
Term
What are the posts called in traditional japanese style houses?
Definition
bashira
Term
What is the name of the central post in a traditional japanese style house?
Definition
tokobashira
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What is "engawa" ?
Definition
extension of the floor to the "outside" space of a traditional japanese style house
Term
Shoin architecture gets its name from what?
Definition
the "shoin," or inset desk
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What is a tokonoma?
Definition
a picture recess allowing the hanging of a picture/scroll or flower arrangement
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What religion is associated with the Butsudan?
Definition
Buddhism
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Who is venerated at the Butsudan?
Definition
ancestors
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Where is the Kamidana usually located, and why is it placed where it is?
Definition
high near the ceiling, to prevent "pollution" from the Butsudan -- b/c the Butsudan is associated with death
Term
What religion is associated with the Kamidana?
Definition
Shinto
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What is the name of the household gods of the Shinto religion?
Definition
Kami
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Who is Muso Kokushi?  What are the dates associated with him?
Definition
first priest of Zuisen-Ji, builder/designer of Zuisen-Ji, 1275-1351
Term
What does Zuisen-Ji mean?
Definition
Temple of the Abundant Flowing Spring
Term
What direction is the entrance of Zuisen-Ji facing?
Definition
South
Term
What is mizuwaki-ishi?
Definition
mid-pond stone
Term
Who was Bodhidharma?  Dates?
Definition
Person who brought Indian Buddhism to China, 470-543
Term
What does Tenryu-Ji mean?
Definition
Temple of Celestial/Heavenly Dragon
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What is the date associated with Tenryu-Ji?
Definition
1339
Term
Where is Tenryu-Ji?
Definition
Kyoto (Arashiyama District)
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What style of roof does the arbor, or ichi-rante, have at the top of the mountain at Zuisen-Ji?
Definition
Pavilion
Term
What made the best blocks for an iglu?
Definition
unlayered snow from a single storm
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Where did the entrances of iglus face?
Definition
away from the prevailing winds, E or S
Term
What is the dropped area of an iglu called?
Definition
Natiq
Term
What is Natiq associated with?
Definition
Men, their tools, and the sea
Term
What is the raised, sleeping platform in an iglu called?
Definition
ikliq
Term
What is ikliq associated with?
Definition
women, their soapstone lamps and gear, and the land
Term
How many worlds did the innuit believe in?
Definition
3
Term
What is the niliajuk?
Definition
above ground innuit world
Term
What is the agneriartarfik?
Definition
the ground level world/realm of the innuit
Term
What is the aglermiut?
Definition
The below ground world/realm, associated with Sedna
Term
What are the three realms of the innuit?
Definition
Niliajuk (above), Agneriartarfik (ground), Aglermiut (below)
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What is the Natsilik innuit name for a communal iglu?
Definition
Gaggi
Term
What type of lineage are the innuit?
Definition
matrilineal/local
Term
What innuit group did we encounter in our studies?
Definition
Natsilik
Term
How many people did the average iglu house?
Definition
5/6
Term
What happened when there was a death in the iglu?
Definition

Some groups broke a hole in the wall of the iglu and removed the dead (like a hogan)

 

some sealed the iglu up like a MAUSOLEUM 

Term
What is the orsulung?
Definition
slightly curved ivory knife for cutting snow blocks
Term
What is Karigi?
Definition
communal club houses, or Gaggi, of iglus
Term
What is the significance of the dome in the iglu?
Definition
provides the maximum volume possible with the least amount of surface area, and no corners for stagnant, cold air to form
Term
What is a tupiq?
Definition
Eskimo tent, used in the summer, made of caribou skins
Term
What type of wood were the poles of the tipi made of?
Definition
cedar
Term
What is a travois?
Definition
how the tipis were transported... bounded at one end and latched to a horse and dragged w/ contents
Term
What is the "center" of the tipi?
Definition
the fire
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What were the sleeping arrangements in the tipi?
Definition
youngest w/ mothers at the door (East, rising sun), oldest slept towards N ("setting"), and the lodge head at the W
Term
What is the "magic number" for the Indians?
Definition
4
Term
What is the tipi as a whole sometimes representative of?
Definition

human body

 

a woman giving birth

 

-or-

 

a main raising arms and praying 

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Who owns the tipi?
Definition
women
Term
What are the smoke flaps associated with?
Definition
ears
Term
What is the tipi sometimes symbolically associated with?
Definition
mountains
Term
What serves as an axis mundi in the tipi?
Definition
smoke hole
Term
What is the axis mundi in the sun dance lodge?
Definition
crotch of the center pole (cottonwood)
Term
The rear side of the Plains tipi was both ________ and _________.
Definition
steeper (to protect against prevailing winds), and wider (like an egg)
Term
Which peoples built 4 pole tipis?
Definition
Crows, Blackfeet
Term
Which peoples built 3 pole tipis?
Definition
Sioux, Cheyenne
Term
A four-pole design was common in the _______ while a three-pole design was common in the ______.
Definition
North; South
Term
Tipi poles were made of?
Definition
pine, or red cedar
Term
How was the cover prepared?
Definition
smoked to prevent cracking after rain
Term
Tipi poles were shorter in the ________.
Definition
south
Term
Southern tipi doorways were often in the shape of a _________ while northern doorways were often in the shape of a _________
Definition
V; Oval
Term
Men usually sat on the ______ side of the tipi while women sat to the _____________.
Definition
North; South
Term
A familial lineage that extends back to a single point is a...
Definition
clan
Term
Two clans assoicated yet divided by kinship/quasikinship is a...
Definition
moiety
Term
Who was the Kiowa tribe?
Definition
neighbor to southern Cheyenne, roamed across SW Kansas and Oklahoma
Term
Who had the biggest tipis in the plains?
Definition
Blackfeet
Term
What is a Hu'thuga?
Definition
Camp circle, sky people/male to N, earth people/women to south
Term
On a Blackfeet tipi, the middle of the tipi is designated as:
Definition
place for vision paintings, separates sky from earth
Term
How big were sundance lodges?
Definition
40-50 feet in diameter
Term
The center pole of a sun dance lodge was made of?
Definition
cottonwood
Term
The poles of a sweat house were often made of
Definition
willow
Term
What is ujigami?
Definition
regional or community deity of Shinto
Term
What kind of food is not offered to either the butsudan of kamidana?
Definition
meat
Term
In Raglan's House as Temple, what do the Hidatsa indians regard as living beings?
Definition
center posts of their houses
Term
In Nigeria, the shrine honoring ancestors is placed where?
Definition
at the end of the room
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In the Mongolian tent (gher), where is the altar located?
Definition
left of the bed as one enters
Term
What is hamesucken?
Definition
scottish word for the offence of feloniously assaulting a man in his own house
Term
When was Zuisen-Ji constructed?
Definition
1327-1332
Term
Where is Zuisen-Ji located?
Definition
Kamakura
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