Week 3 (ANTH 246)
What is a cosmology? - Answer the understanding of the nature of the universe
What is ontology? - Answer the study of being
What is animism? - Answer Everything is alive and has some type of spiritual quality
what is animism focused on? - Answer Less of a focus on the individual and more about their
relationships and connections with each other
What are the Sakha offerings? - Answer Cloth strips are tied to a tree and strung out along a
rope called Salama
Anthropocentric meaning - Answer Humans are the center of everything
who are the Evenki people? (There are 3) - Answer 1. Primarily reindeer herders and hunters
2. Live primarily in the taiga/boreal forest area (Russia, China and Mongolia)
3. Closely related to the "Even people"
Omir meaning - Answer the "spiritual charge" of an object or being (you can have a positive
or negative charge)
Which people believe in the Omir? - Answer The Evenki peoples
What does Sila mean? - Answer It is a really big unifying concept
- Can mean air, atmosphere, sky, intellect, wisdom, spirit, earth, universe and al
What does Silatuniq mean? - Answer The living (also toward the outside), being wise in
every way, not to be put anyone in any harm or danger
What does Sápmi mean? - Answer homeland
Where are the Sápmi peoples based? - Answer in the northern parts of Fennoscandia and far
northwestern Russia
What is a cosmology? - Answer the understanding of the nature of the universe
What is ontology? - Answer the study of being
What is animism? - Answer Everything is alive and has some type of spiritual quality
what is animism focused on? - Answer Less of a focus on the individual and more about their
relationships and connections with each other
What are the Sakha offerings? - Answer Cloth strips are tied to a tree and strung out along a
rope called Salama
Anthropocentric meaning - Answer Humans are the center of everything
who are the Evenki people? (There are 3) - Answer 1. Primarily reindeer herders and hunters
2. Live primarily in the taiga/boreal forest area (Russia, China and Mongolia)
3. Closely related to the "Even people"
Omir meaning - Answer the "spiritual charge" of an object or being (you can have a positive
or negative charge)
Which people believe in the Omir? - Answer The Evenki peoples
What does Sila mean? - Answer It is a really big unifying concept
- Can mean air, atmosphere, sky, intellect, wisdom, spirit, earth, universe and al
What does Silatuniq mean? - Answer The living (also toward the outside), being wise in
every way, not to be put anyone in any harm or danger
What does Sápmi mean? - Answer homeland
Where are the Sápmi peoples based? - Answer in the northern parts of Fennoscandia and far
northwestern Russia
