Vocabulary
Popul Vuh
Popol Vuh is a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people, one of the Maya peoples, who inhabit the Guatemalan Highlands northwest of present-day Guatemala City. The Popol Vuh is a foundation narrative of the Kʼicheʼ before the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
Eric Thompson
advancements in our understanding of the calendar and astronomy, the identification of new nouns, and the development of a numerical cataloguing system for the glyphs (the T-number system), which are still used today. discredited Yuri
How long is Haab
365 days
According to Tannen, men prefer intimate conversations and do not one-up each other.
False
Bacha posh
Bacha posh, which in Dari literally translates to "dressed up as a boy" is a cultural practice in the Middle East of Asia more specifically Afghanistan where patriarchal rules as supreme. Households that are without a male heir or figure to accompany the women are highly stigmatized and marginalized within the society.
Kul Ahaw.
"Holy Lord" in Mayan. A Kul Ahaw was the Classic Maya king of a specific city.
Yuri Knorosov
Treated the Mayan alphabet not as letters, but as symbols
What is Broca's Area responsible for?
Speech production
T/F: Language marks identity and power.
True
Fafafine
Fa'afafine are Samoan biological males who behave in a range of feminine-gendered ways. They have been an integrated part of Samoan communities for centuries. 'Fa'afafine' translates as 'in the manner of a woman'.
Shamanism
people who could contact the spirit world through blood letting and toad licking
Tatiana Proskiouriakoff
Utilizing the theories of Yuri Knorozov, she discovered that the writing on the monumental stela and other buildings was actually historical, dealing with the birth, accession, and death dates for the Maya rulers. Analyzing the pattern of dates and hieroglyphs, she was able to demonstrate a sequence of seven rulers who ruled over a span of two hundred years.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
a theory developed by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf that states that the structure of a language determines or greatly influences the modes of thought and behavior characteristic of the culture in which it is spoken.
T/F: Language determines thought and worldview.
True
Jerundu
strength, maleness
In linguistics, diglossia is a situation in which two dialects or languages are used by a single language community.
Bishop Diego de Landa
Forced Catholic beliefs on the Mayan, burning book and destroying religious arts
Define polymorphous perversity.
Polymorphous perversity is a psychoanalytic concept proposing the ability to gain sexual gratification outside socially normative sexual behaviors. Sigmund Freud used this term to describe the sexual disposition from infancy to about age five.
T/F: Arbitrary means there is an inherent connection between form and meaning.
False: Arbitrary: No inherent connection between form and meaning or signifier and signified
"Learning the Nightmare" purpose
Argues the the function of education is not to foster creativity, but to instill conformity because, "American classrooms express the values, preoccupations, and fears found in the culture as a whole."
Define morpheme.
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a language.
Noam Chomsky.
Learning in stages.
Secondary learning acquisition.
From babbling to telegraphic speech.
What does it mean to be reticent?
Not speaking
T/F: Syntax is a set of structural rules governing the
composition of clauses and phrase
False; That is grammar.
Woganyu
Lack of maleness. A sissy.