Anthropology: Cross Cultural Perspectives

1. CH. 9 Archeology

1.1. Moche culture: The Moche culture made pots that had different scenes from a ritual they practiced called the Sacrafice Ceremony. It was violent and brutal but it was an offering to the Gods.

1.2. "The Nasca project suggests that cultures that share some basic underlying principles may develop and represent them in very different ways" (Burt, 139).

2. CH. 10 Work of Art

2.1. Kula Canoe: made to sail in either direction, had a prow-board and splash board on each end, carved to represent the characteristics of certain creatures, which were associated with certain parts of the body as the site of emotions auspicious for the aims of the kula voyagers.

2.2. "Visual forms have their own special power to show patterns of meaning in relationships between different aspects of the world, levels of reality, or kinds of experience" (Burt, 152).

3. CH. 6 Forms

3.1. Potlatch: Gift-giving festivals to bestow titles inherited from these ancestors and raise their prestige in the wider community, impersonating them in masks and ceremonial regalia.

3.2. "All cultural traditions are full of contradictions, tensions, and ambiguities, revealed in many other art studies, and pairs mediated by a third are not hard to find" (Burt, 95).

4. CH. 7 Meaning

4.1. Heraldry: The tradition of graphic emblems that represent the histories and prerogatives of high-status individuals, families, and corporate bodies of Europe. It is also known as the "Coat of Arms".

4.2. "Since speech in the surest way for people to explain such meanings ti persons of another culture, this implies that researchers such as anthropologists cannot be certain of the significance such as symbols have to those who create and experience them" (Burt, 106).

5. CH.8 Performance

5.1. Elema community: In Papua New Guinea, the Elema people created masks to represent the spirits which would be a long process of ten to twenty years.

5.2. While costumes make persons into artefacts, they may do more than represent social roles and collective identities, by transforming the wearers into other beings" (Burt. 119).