ANTH 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Wesley Powell, Potlatch, Animism
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Looking at places based on culture areas not geographical areas, created by some students of boas (whistler and krowber) did this by looking at the distribution of material culture/artifacts to define areas of similarity (culture areas) Inuit group from siberia or around there which is arctic coast, lots of technology focused on hunting coastal sea mammals primarily though also sometimes hunt caribou and fish for salmon. By end of wwii this traditional way of life is mostly gone, but is still archived. Song duels, historical traditions, starvation cannibalism stories, sedna, hunting, spirits, animism, shaman and control processes, are the mythology and folklore markers. Northwest coast, southern alaska, northern california, lots of temperate rainforests just tons of vegetation, people lived on the coast rather than inland. Sasquatch stories, raven stories, sen, killer whales, initiation, building totem poles to commemorate things passing on and initiations, the potlatch, mythology and folk tale markers.
