10/13/18. 17/100

I love my anthro teacher already!

"If you think about it, we're all just facts with culture"

Recently I went on a mini vacation to Seattle Washington. On the trip, I went to the Art Museum and I thought I would share with you all some of the cultural art that stuck out to me. 

If you ever get the chance to go to Seattle, I highly recommend visiting this museum. It is absolutely amazing!

Beneath each picture, I have added info about them from the museum.

Turban Cloths

Cotton with brocade border - Jodhpur 20th Century

Mehrangarh Museum Trust

Men chose their turbans carefully - a wrapped headdress is said to be akin to an unspoken language. Each social group in Marwar has a distinctive style of tying the long cloth and might add accents with ornaments that say more about who they are. Men also wear turbans for specific seasons, ceremonies, or moods. The wave pattern seen here is worn during the monsoon season, when the coming of rain is celebrated. In the harsh summer months, a turban is a shield against the blazing heat. It can also be a form of protection in battle. Many rulers wear turbans that are like crowns, loaded with jewels, which denote their rank in court society.

Masks of the Animal Kingdon Dance

Performances featuring masked dancers are the birthright of particular families and derive from long-ago auspicious encounters between human ancestors and supernatural beings, in the guise of animals or unique spirits. The “Dance of the animal kingdom” represents a heroine ancestor’s adventures among the animal beings who in turn bestow the dance and masks upon her for use by her family and subsequent generations.

Drum with skull painting - 1991

Animal hide, acrylic, wood, bone

Art by: Susan Point - Canadian, Musqueam

The First People

Red cedar, yellow cedar

Art by: Susan Point - Musqueam band

The homelands of the Musqueam of the Fraser River Delta are punctuated by meandering pathways as the Fraser reaches the Strait of Georgia. The faces within the tendrils represent the hereditary bloodlines that connect the families in the region, and the waterways that were lifelines yielding food resources, sustaining the Delta people from time immemorial.

Food bowl: Frigate bird with shark - 20th century

wood, mother-of-pearl shell

Melanesian, Eastern Solomon

Men in the Solomon Islands consider fishing or skipjack bonito (a member of the tuna family) to be a sacred endeavor. The fishermen watch for frigate birds feeding off of schools of smaller bait fish and observe the bonito that follow, in a season that lasts from November to April. Sharks swarm this whirlpool of frothy activity and devour what they need to survive. This vessel features two predatory creatures merging together to suggest the cycle of consumption, with the humans who eventually feast on the bowl’s contents completing the cycle.

Pyramidion of Hori - 1350 B.C

Limestone, pigment

Egyptian, Abu Tig. New Kingdom

18th Dynasty

09-26-18. 12/100

Spending the afternoon reading various anthropological articles and writing summaries. And as usual my fur baby is keeping me company 😺😻

Free books from the University Library!!

2/12/19. 4/100

Haven't posted in a while! I swear I'm trying to work on my consistency

Anyways! Knocking out some human geography notes between classes

reblog this if you're an anthropologist, an archaeologist, or an anthropology or archaeology student

biological, cultural, linguistic, archaeology… I want to follow you!

1,/31/2019. 3/100

Geology lab days 😍😍

Things my Anthro teacher says

"We are corn people."

I thought I would share a book for some of those who would be interested, especially those studying or interested in Anthropology.

Lissa is an ethnography in graphic novel format. It is a powerful story set in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. It looks at politics, culture differences and similarities, and how American and Egyptian cultures look at and deal with death and disease.

That's all I'm going to say because I dont want to ruin it for anyone interested.

And, today in my Cultural Anthropology class, we did a Skype Q&A with one of the authors, Professor Hamdy, where the class got to asks questions about this book. It was an amazing experience, she had so much information to share and you could just feel her passion!

Studyblr list

Hi everyone

I would like to make a lists of beginning/small studyblrs.  Reblog this post with the tag #listofsmallstudyblrs if you want to be a part of the list. Add in the tag what your general field is (like STEM or langblr etc) I’m only going to make it if there is enough respons because its no use if there are 5 of them.