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Does anyone else feel super accomplished when they get to check off something? It's a nice little confidence booster!
More Posts from Anthropologme and Others
My Cultural Anthropology Professor shared this with our class today, so I thought I would share with you guys.
We were talking about silent language today and how some gestures we (Americans) used may not be carried out in the same context in other countries.
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Desk layout...even though it won't stay like this for long!
No class on Fridays! But I still have a lot of work to do today. Chapters to read and essays to write.
But first, I'm going to ease into it with my current fun read: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert. Accompanying me is my baby girl Dill and a chai coffee in my awesome Lord of the Flies mug.
Today's gonna be good!
Accidental Overachiever
Welp...it has happened.
In my Cultural Anthropology class I have officially become the person who raises their hand so much that the teacher asks, "anyone else have an answer?"
But it kinda makes me feel like Hermione.
Introduction
So I've seen a bunch of studyblr bloggers do introduction posts and I didn't really think to do one because...I'm pretty darn shy!
But here is goes anyways
About me:
I'm a freshman at community college
I'm 24 (I took off schooling to take care of my mom from age 19 to 21)
My major is anthropology (if you couldn't tell from my username)
I'm originally from Colorado but I'm currently living in San Diego, Ca
My goals this year:
Pass all my classes (obviously right?)
Do all my readings BEFORE class
Do all the extra credit!
Complete at least one honors class (just signed up for honors english)
Meet new people (did I mention I was shy?)
Learn a new language (currently learning Norwegian on duolingo)
Hobbies:
Writing stories whenever I get the spare time
Reading
Watching documentaries
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Spending the afternoon reading various anthropological articles and writing summaries. And as usual my fur baby is keeping me company 😺😻
Recently I went on a mini vacation to Seattle Washington. On the trip, I went to the Art Museum and I thought I would share with you all some of the cultural art that stuck out to me.
If you ever get the chance to go to Seattle, I highly recommend visiting this museum. It is absolutely amazing!
Beneath each picture, I have added info about them from the museum.
Turban Cloths
Cotton with brocade border - Jodhpur 20th Century
Mehrangarh Museum Trust
Men chose their turbans carefully - a wrapped headdress is said to be akin to an unspoken language. Each social group in Marwar has a distinctive style of tying the long cloth and might add accents with ornaments that say more about who they are. Men also wear turbans for specific seasons, ceremonies, or moods. The wave pattern seen here is worn during the monsoon season, when the coming of rain is celebrated. In the harsh summer months, a turban is a shield against the blazing heat. It can also be a form of protection in battle. Many rulers wear turbans that are like crowns, loaded with jewels, which denote their rank in court society.
Masks of the Animal Kingdon Dance
Performances featuring masked dancers are the birthright of particular families and derive from long-ago auspicious encounters between human ancestors and supernatural beings, in the guise of animals or unique spirits. The “Dance of the animal kingdom” represents a heroine ancestor’s adventures among the animal beings who in turn bestow the dance and masks upon her for use by her family and subsequent generations.
Drum with skull painting - 1991
Animal hide, acrylic, wood, bone
Art by: Susan Point - Canadian, Musqueam
The First People
Red cedar, yellow cedar
Art by: Susan Point - Musqueam band
The homelands of the Musqueam of the Fraser River Delta are punctuated by meandering pathways as the Fraser reaches the Strait of Georgia. The faces within the tendrils represent the hereditary bloodlines that connect the families in the region, and the waterways that were lifelines yielding food resources, sustaining the Delta people from time immemorial.
Food bowl: Frigate bird with shark - 20th century
wood, mother-of-pearl shell
Melanesian, Eastern Solomon
Men in the Solomon Islands consider fishing or skipjack bonito (a member of the tuna family) to be a sacred endeavor. The fishermen watch for frigate birds feeding off of schools of smaller bait fish and observe the bonito that follow, in a season that lasts from November to April. Sharks swarm this whirlpool of frothy activity and devour what they need to survive. This vessel features two predatory creatures merging together to suggest the cycle of consumption, with the humans who eventually feast on the bowl’s contents completing the cycle.
Pyramidion of Hori - 1350 B.C
Limestone, pigment
Egyptian, Abu Tig. New Kingdom
18th Dynasty
