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| How is Art Similar / Different From Religion? |
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Much art done with religion involved
Similar) - In inspiration, creation, meanings, display, performance, intended effect
Different) - |
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| Is non-WEstford art always linked with religion? |
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| Usually, but wrongly, assumed to have some kind of connection to ritual. It is, but not always. |
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| What are some ways in which the boundary between what is art and what is not can be blurry? |
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Definition
- Art appreciation is utural and learned
- Artistic Standards - determined and maintained by formal and informal standards of group consensus
- Methodological relativism: Need to set aside our cultural standards to understand varying definitions, aesthetics, & purposes of art in different cultures |
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| Why do you think Western analyses of non-Western art have tended to ignore individual artists and their expression of self and focus instead on social and cultural context?Seen as token representative of a culture |
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Seen as token representative of a culture
– Not seeing “them” as individuals
– Provenance issues
– But also often more collective production
– Not mattering locally who made it or artist as merely vehicle for broader force
– Degree to which artists can be separated from their work varies cross-culturally |
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| -What is an example of how art can stand for tradition? For change? |
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- Herders in Alps played the alpenhorn to call animals to pasture
- The Last Supper, meant to evoke a certain response in its viewers
- Form of communication
- Source of emotional release |
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| -In analyzing expressive culture, how is a text defined and what kinds of things can it refer to? |
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Text: Cultural product that is processed and assigned meaning by anyone exposed to it.
- It can pretty much refer to anything, people produce their own meanings |
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| -What functions does media serve? |
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| Provided framework of common expectations, experiences, and behavior that overrides differences |
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| -How is Brazilian television viewing related to family planning outcomes? |
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| The Brazilian Tv families tend to have fewer children than traditional small-town Brazilians do. |
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| -In what ways does football symbolize and simplify key aspects of American life and values? |
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• Illustrates values of hard work and teamwork
• Presents miniaturized, simplified version of modern organizations (Montague and Morais) |
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| -How do cultural values, social forces and the media influence international sports success? |
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Being versus doing
– In Brazil, identity rests on being
– American’s identity emerges as result of what he or she does
– Brazilian media focus - being the best, relishes predictable victories
– American media focus - usually on some aspect of doing, striving, feasts on unexpected results, underdog winning, agony of defeat
Brazilian culture and media - very
intolerant of losers
– American culture and media – hard work and personal improvement can be as important as winning |
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| Dance, music, painting, sculpture, pottery, cloth, stories, drama, comedy, etc. |
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| The appreciation of qualities perceived in art |
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Comparative study of music of the world as an aspect of culture and society
- Music is a cultural universal
-Arose early in human history
- All cultures have lullabies
- Inherently cultural and social |
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