RELS 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Edward Said, Vibraphone, Rock Art
8 Mar 2017
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Final essay: worth 50, we choose our own subject, has to involve indigenous spirituality/religion/traditions, etc, go to prof or tas for permission on subject. Kuujjuaraapik: community of cree and inuit people living together in nunavik, need to compromise on many things, such as bars and alcohol, but also have separate schools, roads, etc. Totem pole (haida: monuments of the pacific north west, represents ancestry, histories, people or events, created out of red cedar, do(cid:374)"t tell a sto(cid:396)y (cid:271)ut sho(cid:449) positio(cid:374)ality, marks land and directions. Sun dance (blackfoot: serious of religious ceremonies. Pictographs and petroglyphs: rock art is the most ancient form of human art, pictographs, paintings, petroglyphs, carvings. Society of faces mask (iroquois: made to ward of bad vibes and spirits. Colonialism: a form of domination that generally refers to the control by individuals or groups over territory or behaviors of others.
