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Architectual of traditional societies
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
03/25/2009

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animism
Definition
living-being, life, breath, spirit. Essentially the spirit that energizes life.
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animatism
Definition
“inanimate” things possess a life-force. Everything is alive, etc
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u’macha
Definition
Dwellings of Miwok Indians in California. Around SF Bay Area. A-frame, undifferentiated, organic architecture
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Kiva
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Of Pueblo Indians in SW US. Meaning “world below”--periodic dwelling place of spirit beings (kachina)
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myth charter
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design of dwelling does not flow from individual will/thought but from ancestors or deities
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Imago mundi
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building itself as a literal image of larger world (think micro/macro cosim)
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Genius loci
Definition
spirit of place
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Kachina
Definition
Of Pueblos-- Spirit of life force (close to animism). What animates the rain, intensity of sun, presence of certain elements
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Ordon
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earlier name for Ger and Yurt
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Temujin
Definition
Genghis Khan
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Dogon
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Means "seed," dwellings in Mali, Western Africa
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Tokanuan
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Columbia, brazil dwelling. Very gendered
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Honshu
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Big island of Japan
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Wasichu
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"white people" in Lakota (Black Elk's language)
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Wakon Tonka
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"Great Spirit, God" in Lakota (Black Elk's lang.)
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Blue Couds
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Arapaho Indians
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Lakota
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"Teton Sioux", the western division of the Sioux
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Amma
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Creator God of Dogon mythology
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Yurugu
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The fox, son of Dogan god Amma, became symbol of disorder -- the night, the uncultivated, etc
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Nommo
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Son of Dogan god Amma, symbol for ordered world -- sky, day, fertility, the cultivated. Twin of Yurugu.
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karigi
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communal club houses, used for ceremonial life (of Inuits)
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tupiq
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tent dwellings used by Eskimos in summer. Poles made of antler usually and covered with seal skin or hide
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niliajuk
Definition
above ground (Inuit)
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aglermiut
Definition
below ground (Inuit)
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Iqliq
Definition
snow bench inside iglu
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Red Cloud Agency
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Later named Pine Ridge Agency, h0me of the Ogalala, aka "Place Where Everything is Disputed" of Black Elk
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Thunder beings direction
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West (where rain comes from)
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Great white wind direction
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North
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Mo
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Morning star direction
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East
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Summer and growth direction
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South
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Six Grandfathers
Definition
of Great Vision, from: east, west, north, south, sky, and earth
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Red road
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Goes from north to south, the road of good. Where the plains Indians followed ideally.
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Black road
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Goes from west to east, the bad road, fearful road, of troubles and war.
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tateana
Definition
pithouses of Jomon Pd in Japan
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