102 5 Cult of CA

Assignment: Read this module in its entirety including the links to each macro-culture and visit their respective web links. Make a journal entry for this page and the pages for each macro-culture. Read the Module 4.1: Components of Culture chapters and make a one paragraph journal entry of your thoughts after each chapter.

Cultures tended to be entirely a geographical phenomenon. For example, all of the macro-cultures of California were comprised of more than one language. The macro-cultural borders were, in every case in California, mountain ranges or deserts. Transitional cultures formed in on or about those frontiers where ethnies had first hand contact on a regular basis with more than one culture. Of the five macro-cultures of California, three (Chungichnich, Kuksu, Northwest California) were remarkably distinctly Californian. These macro-cultures occupied almost the entire Pacific slope of the state. The remaining two macro-cultures of California (Dream, Great Basin), east of the Sierra and Mojave Desert, shared traits with cultures to their east and, therefore, were not distinctly Californian.

There was a body specific cultural elements that were universal to the three distinctly Californian macro-cultures that distinguishes them from all other North American Indians:

1. Property boundaries

2. Acorns prominent in the diet

3. Relatively peaceful in nature

4. Absence of drums and use of clapper sticks, whistles, and flutes for music.

5. Sedentary hunter/gatherers

Visit an outline analysis each California macro-culture by clicking on it on the "Cultural Zone" legend:

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