Anthropogy quiz

Deathways

the cultural customs, beliefs, and practices that a social group uses to handle, dispose of, and commemorate the dead. Activities, traditions, and practices.

Differential preservation

some things preserve better than others. Bone over organs

Decay analysis

reconstructing burial activities by understanding how things decompose in the grave. Understanding how things decay will help us understand how or why the items/bones are set up as they are.

NAGPRA

provides legal protection for Native Americans. Also prevents the selling of bones. ( does not apply to private land)

intemediary period

a transitional phase that occurs between a person's physical death and their rebirth, or final burial rites

secondary period

the final rite where dried bones are collected and moved to their permanent resting place

Liminal period

middle phase of a rite of passage where they have detached from their former social role or identity, but have not yet been inducted into their new one.

rites of passage

event or ritual that marks an individual's transition from one social, cultural, or religious status to another

tiwah

secondary burial where relatives exhume the remains, clean and purify the bones

sandug

traditional shrine built to store the bones of ancestors after secondary burial rituals

Hertz (8)

1- Death is a process

2- The body is linked to the spirit

3- The spirit is dangerous during the intermediary period

4- Death is a tear in the fabric of society

5- The scale of the funeral reflects their social standing

6- Funerary ceremonies resemble other life-cycle rituals

7-The society of the dead parallels the society of the living

8-The body must disappear from this world to pass to the nex

Van Gemp (6)

1- Transitional

2- Intermediary period

3- The dangerous period

4- Strange symbolism

5-Paradoxical behavior

6-Communication of the sacred

turner (3)

1- Journey ( death is a voyage)

2- sex ( connection between reproduction and death)

3- Rebirth ( the dead are reborn into the next world)