Chapter 14 - The Arts

Question 1

The creative use of the human imagination to aesthetically interpret, express, and engage life, modifying experienced reality in the process.

Answer 1

art

Question 2

A creatively expressed promotion of ideas by artful means dramatically staged to challenge opinion and/or provoke purposeful action.

Answer 2

performance art

Question 3

Art created primarily for visual perception, ranging from etchings and paintings on various surfaces (including the human body) to sculptures and weavings made with an array of materials.

Answer 3

visual art

Question 4

Creative word use on display that includes stories, myths, legends, tales, poetry, metaphor, rhyme, changes, drama, cant, proverbs, jokes, puns, riddles, and tongue twisters.

Answer 4

verbal art

Question 5

A term coined by nineteenth-century scholars studying the unwritten stories and other artistic traditions of rural peoples to distinguish between “folk art” and the “fine art” of the literate elite. Historically referred to a folklore, today “oral tradition is the preferred term used by anthropologists and other scholars.

Answer 5

folklore/oral tradition

Question 6

A sacred narrative that explains the fundamentals of human existence-where we and everything in our world came from, why we are here, and where we are going.

Answer 6

myth

Question 7

A story about a memorable event or figure handed down by tradition and told as true but without historical evidence.

Answer 7

legend

Question 8

A long dramatic narrative recounting the celebrated deeds of a historic or legendary hero, often sung or recited in poetic language.

Answer 8

epic

Question 9

A creative narrative that is recognized as fiction for entertainment but may also draw a moral or teach a practical lesson.

Answer 9

tale

Question 10

A story situation in a folktale.

Answer 10

motif

Question 11

The study of a society’s music in terms of its cultural setting.

Answer 11

ethnomusicology

Question 12

Broadly speaking, an art form whose medium is sound and silence; a form of communication that includes a nonverbal auditory component with elements of tonality, pitch, rhythm, and timbre.

Answer 12

music

Question 13

___________ music may be distinguished from “natural music.”

Answer 13

Human

Question 14

______________ is an art form that involves the puncturing and coloring of human skin with symbolic design.

Answer 14

Tattooing

Question 15

To some extent in literate societies, such as the United States, the function of ____________ has been taken over by history.

Answer 15

legends

Question 16

In Native American art from the Pacific Northwest, _____________ may be so highly stylized that it may be difficult for an outsider to identify them.

Answer 16

animal figures

Question 17

Geometric patterns seen on pottery or woven into tapestries are seen as ___________ by informed eyes.

Answer 17

geneological

Question 18

European music is often measured in patterns of ____________ beats per measure; whereas non-European music is patterned in __________ beats per measure.

Answer 18

2, 3, and 4

5, 7, or 11

Question 19

Through _________, the Bedouin can express taboo topics

Answer 19

little songs

Question 20

The onset of trances allow an individual to see entropic images, which can then be integrated into___________.

Answer 20

iconic images

Question 21

A _______________ is a sacred narrative that explains the fundamentals of human existence.

Answer 21

myth

Question 22

The social function of music is most obvious in ________.

Answer 22

song

Question 23

Why were objects created for the ancient Egyptian tomb of King Tut?

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d) both b and c
b) To guarantee eternal life of the king
c) to protect the king from evil forces that might enter his body and gain control.

Question 24

As a type of symbolic expression, visual art may be _________(imitating closely the forms of nature) or_________(drawing form natural forms but representing only the basic pattern or arrangements)

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b) representational, abstract

Question 25

Why do anthropologists study art?

Answer 25

c) Art helps anthropologists to understand all culture.

Question 26

How was Bushman life shown in their rock art?

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d) through all of the above
a) with several hunting scenes of men with bows
b) through scenes with women carrying stone-weighted digging sticks
c) scenes portrayed in the art relate to the trance dance

Question 27

Visions of people, animals, and monsters seen in the deepest stage of trance are called

Answer 27

d) iconic images

Question 28

Tattoos have been used to mark

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e) all of the above
a) clan or cult membership
b) religious or tribal affiliation
c) social status
d) marital position

Question 29

The story “Father, Son and Donkey,” which originated in Ghana in West Africa, is an example of

Answer 29

a) a tale

Question 30

Which form of verbal art is defined as a story about a memorable event or figure handed down by tradition and told as true but without historical evidence?

Answer 30

c) legend

Question 31

A myth is a sacred narrative that explains the fundamentals of human existence. Yet beyond this explanatory function, what does myth provide?

Answer 31

d) a and c
a) It explains where we come from
c) It sets cultural standards for “right” behavior

Question 32

The study of a society’s music in therms of its cultural setting is defined as

Answer 32

ethnomusicology

Question 33

The ________ adoption of the highland bagpipe into Scottish regiments is an instance of those in authority employing music to further a political agenda.

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e) English

Question 34

How did the Aborigines prove their ownership of land to the Australian government?

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d) through traditional songs of patterns of settlement, travel and land use.

Question 35

Functions of art in a society include all EXCEPT which of the following?

a) Art adds beauty and pleasure to everyday life
b) Art contributes to the cohesiveness or solidarity of a particular society
c) Art expresses political themes and influence events to create social change
d) Art is created for religious purposes or honoring or beseeching the aid of a divine power, a social being, and ancestral or animal spirits.
e) Art allows individuals to sell their work for profit.

Answer 35

e) Art allows individuals to sell their work for profit.

Question 36

“Little Songs,” are ways to express taboo subjects among

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c) the Awlad ‘Ali Bedouins of Egypt

Question 37

Which of the following statements about indigenous artistic expression are true?

a) Indigenous people, especially those threatened by globalization, use aesthetic expression as part of cultural survival.
b) A dance, song, basket, carving, or any beautiful thing can serve as a powerful symbol or survival.
c) Basketry among the Micmac served as a symbol of self-determination
d) all the above are true

Answer 37

d) all the above are true

Question 38

What anthropologist “brought back the past” in the form of beadwork for the Penobscot?

Answer 38

a) Jennifer Sapiel Neptune

Question 39

What early twentieth-century artist was influenced by the work of the Dan people from the Ivory Coast?

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c) Alberto Giacometti

Question 40

What culture united art with funerary rites?

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d) Ghana

Question 41

What do the Maori warriors form New Zealand have in common with the Texas Trinity football team?

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c) they perform the haka

Question 42

A Lady Gaga concert most closely embodies which of the following art forms?

a) music and visual art
b) literary art and music
c) performance art and music
d) performance art and literary art

Answer 42

c) performance art and music

Question 43

What are some of the functions of art?

Answer 43

1) Art reflects all aspects of culture
2) Art embodies religious ideas and values
3) Art functions as a legal document (marriage paintings)
4) Art reflects the values and ideas in the period in which it was made
5) Art reflects decent patterns and lineage
6) Art reflects regions and territories.
7) Art is the epitome of imagination