ANTH 1140 Lecture Notes - Xunantunich, Global Issue, Minuscule 22
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Looking at a culture w/out putting your cultural perspectives on it. Kopan had egalitarian burials, and likely the whole society. Look at living cultures to understand past ones- ethnographic analogy. Moka- gift, usually of pigs (cu archaeologist) -ceren. Basal flange lidded vessels (2d to 3d) usually human head inside. All transportation of goods was done on foot or boat. Chihuahuas and turkeys were only domesticated protein source. Yax means both blue and green, color of growth. Autosacrifice reciprocity (you do something for me, i"ll do something for you) Believed that humans used to be made from dirt, then wood, then corn, then the gods gave them blood. Full of saurians (hides worn as sign of power, also represented the world. ) Endangered green sea turtle (used to meat, shell used as instrument. ) Mangrove (canoes) and amate (made into paper) trees. Flint and chert (used for knives, arrowheads, and eccentric flint)
