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24 Cards in this Set
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Sedentary |
Stationary, live in one place. |
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Non-Sedentary |
Nomadic, lives in many places. |
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Stratified |
A society made up of distinct, unequal social classes. |
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Non-Stratified |
A society not having distinct, unequal social classes. |
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Centralized |
Those societies having a recognized, institutionalized central political and religious authority. |
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Non-Centralized |
No central authoritative body. Those societies not having a recognized, institutionalized central political and religious authority. |
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Patrilineal |
Descent reckoned through the male line. |
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Incise |
To make a design by cutting into a surface with a pointed instrument. |
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Ethnographic Analogy |
A method for inferring the use or meaning of an ancient site or artifact based on observations and accounts of its use by living people. |
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"Oni" |
Means "King" in Ife. |
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Terra cotta |
Hard baked clay, used for sculpture and as a building material. |
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Naturalism or "-istic". |
The representation for forms in art so that they resemble as closely as possible appearances in nature. |
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Scarification |
Body adornment, permanent body scaring as body art. |
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Idealization |
Making a form conform to preconceived standards of "beauty"; making a subject appear more beautiful or perfect then it appears in real life. |
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Bini |
Language of the Edo people of the Kingdom of Benin. |
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Edo |
Name that the people of the kingdom of Benin called themselves. |
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"Oba" |
Mean "king" in Benin. |
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Relief |
A form of sculpture in which the image projects from the background of which it's a part. |
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Secret Society
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Initiation rituals for just men or just woman. doesn't always mean it's private event.
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"Ala (Ani)"
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Igbo Earth Goddess.
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"mmwo"
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Means "spirit" in Igbo.
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ndop
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Statue portraits of kings, also at times can be used as stand-ins as for royal meetings.
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Vodun
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Supernatural powers that can be honored and petitioned as specific deities or personifications.
Similar words refer to ritual/religious practices in the Americas which are based in part upon the worship of vodun in Africa.
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Mbari |
A ceremonial Igbo house built about every 50 years in honor of the earth goddess Ala. |
