FSN 508 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Plains Indians, Discovery Doctrine, Land Art
12 Mar 2018
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West indies: caribbean, when christopher was exploring he was searching for india but found the west indies instead. Mesoamerica: central america, it was dominated by a series of civilizations. Meritocracy: placed into a society as opposed to being born into it , societies that valued personal achievement, you had to demonstrate in order to have power. Empirical: achievement of knowledge through practical achievements over time, observing things to learn. Dualism: opposing factors that related to cosmology, abstraction vs realism. Shamanism-animism: animals have religious and spiritual relevance, dualism of animals and spirit (shamanism is the interface the communicator of the animated universe) Totemic: animal that has spiritual powers that are related to people or clans, the animal guides people, you embody the power of the animals, people are inferior to animals. Land art: any artifact that utilizes the landscape or land to create something (ex. Aztec: mesoamerican civilization, warrior priests, violent, engineers (people that created flushing toilets)
