Sweat Lodge Anthropology

In the article ‘Body Ritual Among the Nacirema’ written by Horace Miner he goes on to describe the culture and rituals of the Nacirema. A group of North Americans that are found “between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles.” Throughout the article he describes American rituals from an outsiders point

On April 15th of 2017 at 1 o’clock P.M., I decided to travel to the Lloyd Noble Center at 2900 S. Jenkins, in Norman, Oklahoma to attend the 103rd annual American Indian Student Association (AISA) Spring Powwow. The weather was great, was about 80˚, partly cloudy with a cool breeze. Walking around trying to find the lady I was supposed to be interviewing, I occasionally would catch the smell of food (popcorn, pretzels, and hot dogs, and Indian Taco’s), as well as, seeing several tables where one can buy hand crafted gifts. I attended this event, because I have always been very intrigued with the history of the Native American people; from the culture, regalia’s and their religion. I met with Shelby Mata the organizer of the event to get a better

My group read a Nez Perce legend “When Sweat Lodge Was Human". The Nez Perce tribe was located in Northwest America but now has a 750,000 acre reservation in Idaho. The Nez Perce was a migratory tribe and their diet consisted of such foods as roots, moose, buffalo, elk, salmon, potatoes, carrots, blackberries, elderberries, pine nuts, strawberries, and sunflower seeds. From what I have read and analyzed The Nez Perce Tribe believes that In the beginning of time before humans all the animals met together in a group and had a discussion. This discussion was about the animals and what their roles in wildlife would be.

I have never heard of a sweat lodge or even have the slightest clue what it is. I found it very interesting that this a purification process and all of the specifics that are necessary for this process. There are so many different specifics that are necessary that they must follow for the ceremony to take place. This has to be something that is very important to them if it is so serious.

First, the huts were cold! “It was the week before Christmas 1777. The first job of the men was to build log huts. Each hut was 16’ by 14’ with a door at one end, a stick and clay fireplace at the other, and no windows. Each hut slept twelve men.

Seth and Twist trotted behind me. We drifted up the trail past mountain laurel, sagebrush, and small pines for almost half an hour then finally made it to the top of the ridge. I could see into the wide rift below. It was craggy, thick, and wild. The ground was littered with fallen twigs, decaying maple leaves, and brambly, green shrubs.

On the ridge, cedars corkscrewed the overhangs; a few had been stubborn inhabitants for a millennium. Continents of lichen mottled bark and crag: blotches of verdigris, inky florets, burnished lace. Its life measured in millimetres. The wind was keen as a bayonet, with resin filtered through.

MATH IN “Hidden Figures” The film “Hidden Figures” shows how math can affect society, and how it gets people to ignore race to win in a race of a different form. During this film these employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are trying to solve an issue regarding flight path in space, and where re-entry will occur, so they can get their astronaut to safety. Eventually, they get an African American woman, Katherine Johnson, who is a single mother in America during the 1960s, which is everything an African American woman tries to avoid being.

Horace Miner, a American Anthropologist wrote an academic essay titled “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” In this article Miner described some of the bizarre rituals and practices of the “Nacirema” which the reader comes to find out that he is talking about North Americans. The way Miner goes into detail about how these people live makes them seem foreign. Thus making the norm for an American lifestyle seem odd because the certain type of lingo Miner uses to make this “tribe” more exotic then the actually are. His point in doing this is to show the reader how obnoxious anthropologist can be when they are explain a different culture.

As the sun slipped lower the incoming tide of evening claimed each field stalk by stalk with an increasing appetite for darkness. Where the hilly terrain rendered cultivation an impossibility, the furrowed earth dissolved into forest. Sprawling white oaks clung to the rocky ground with equally strong and sprawling roots while the blushing sweetgum leaves remained

This passage from “A white Heron”, by Sarah Orne Jewett, details a short yet epic journey of a young girl, and it is done in an entertaining way. Jewett immediately familiarizes us with our protagonist, Sylvia, in the first paragraph, and our antagonist: the tree. However, this is a bit more creative, as the tree stands not only as an opponent, but as a surmountable object that can strengthen and inspire Sylvia as she climbs it. This “old pine” is described as massive, to the point where it, “towered above them all and made a landmark for sea and shore miles and miles away.” (Line 8).

The chapter opens with a Sioux sweat lodge ceremony. Dennis Linn wants you to imagine the physical and emotional feelings, which emanate from the ceremony. The medicine man thanks God for all creatures including man. Those in the ceremony are thankful to God and ask forgiveness of all those they have hurt and extend forgiveness to those who have hurt them. The author thought it was a primitive superstition.

The thick layers of pines had thinned into a thin layer of towering oaks. After a brief pause and break, we began dumping out the bags of bait into a pile in the sight of the stand. Covering the trees with frosting was like creating a piece of art. Jokingly designing obscene pictures upon the trees, we exchanged some laughter. After coloring the trees an opaque white, I began the strenuous walk back downhill.

Disrupting Juniper was a project taken on by the student of PNCA class of 2016 Collaborative Design program. We took on this project to help protect South West Oregon from being overrun by the Juniper tree ( Juniperus occidentalis). Although Juniper is a native plant it is also an invasive species that continues to destroy fertile land, wildlife, and watersheds. Instead of making one product the collaborative design team decided to create a suite of products made from Juniperus occidentalis. We made relief prints, a skateboard, and furniture.

All about the Mafia and how ordinary citizen are standing up to the mafia and weakening its grip on society is what this article is about. The importance of this article is how the mafia all started and what is important to the mafia like money, and how society tried to stand up and take their communities back from the mafia. This article relates to chapter one because its talks about what cultural anthropology is about. Mafia is an organized international body of criminals, starting out in Sicily and now it’s in Italy and the US and having a complex and ruthless behavioral code. Many people in the mafia living areas would have to pay money to keep their business in the mafia area.