Chapter 13 Flashcards
Just as churches demarcate religion, ________ set art off from the ordinary world.
museums and theaters
Among the ________, wooden sculptures are carved not for aesthetic reasons but to serve as “houses” for spirits.
Kalabari
Which term refers to the comparative study of music as an aspect of culture and society?
ethnomusicology
________ include(s) storytelling, visual arts, literature, music, and performance arts.
Arts
McAllester found that Navajo music reflected the overall culture in three main ways—individualism, foreign music as dangerous, and a(n)
general stress on proper form applied to music.
In Brazil, greater use of all media was part of a(n) ________ orientation.
external
In Kottak’s study of television in Brazil, the families Brazilians saw on TV tended to have
fewer children than traditional small-town Brazilians did.
In Brazil, identity rests on ________ rather than doing
being
Sports and media both reflect and ________ culture.
influence
________ is synonymous with the arts.
Expressive culture
Which of the following statements about individual artists in non-Western societies is true?
They tend to get more feedback during the artistic process than in Western societies.
Dance, music, painting, sculpture, pottery, cloth, stories, drama, comedy, etc. are known as
expressive culture.
What kind of evidence led scientists studying remains at South Africa’s Blombos Cave to suggest that ancient Africans exhibited abstract and creative thought even 100,000 years ago?
They found artifacts engraved with symbolic marks.
What is the term for the comparative study of the musics of the world?
ethnomusicology
Found in a cave in Slovenia, the oldest known musical instrument, the “Divje babe flute,” dates back more than
43,000 years.
Actors, musicians, and dancers
function as intermediaries who translate the works and ideas of other artists.
What helped broaden the study of humanities from fine art and elite art to “folk” and non-Western arts, along with the creative expressions of popular culture?
growing acceptance of the anthropological definition of culture
In nonstate societies, artists
tend to be part-time.
Anthropologists have an interest in sports because, as the media’s illustrations of U.S. football suggest,
sports can symbolize certain key aspects of the culture in which they are highly popular.
In the context of media usage, what did Descartes and Kottak conclude during their fieldwork?
Parents choose the media messages that help them support and reinforce their own life choices.
Among the ________ the word for art—ona—encompasses designs on objects, art objects, and the creators of such works.
Yoruba
For familiar genres, such as painting or music, societies tend to lack standards by which they judge whether an artwork is complete or fully realized.
false
Media consumers actively select, evaluate, and interpret media in ways that make sense to them.
true
All art is objectively beautiful.
false
