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Using These Slides

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  1. Using These Slides These PowerPoint slides have been designed for use by students and instructors using the Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity textbook by Conrad Kottak. These files contain short outlines of the content of the chapters, as well as selected photographs, maps, and tables. Students may find these outlines useful as a study guide or a tool for review. Instructors may find these files useful as a basis for building their own lecture slides or as handouts. Both audiences will notice that many of the slides contain more text than one would use in a typical oral presentation, but it was felt that it would be better to err on the side of a more complete outline in order to accomplish the goals above. Both audiences should feel free to edit, delete, rearrange, and rework these files to build the best personalized outline, review, lecture, or handout for their needs.

  2. Contents of Student CD-ROM • Chapter-by-Chapter Electronic Study Guide: • Video clip from a University of Michigan lecture on the text chapter • Interactive map exercise • Chapter objectives and outline • Key terms with an audio pronunciation guide • Self-quizzes (multiple choice, true/false, and short-answer questions with feedback indicating why your answer is correct or incorrect) • Critical thinking essay questions • Internet exercises • Vocabulary flashcards • Chapter-related web links • Cool Stuff: • Interactive globe • Study break links • Student CD-ROM—this fully interactive student CD-ROM is packaged free of charge with every new textbook and features the following unique • tools: • How To Ace This Course: • Animated book walk-through • Expert advice on how to succeed in the course (provided on video by the University of Michigan) • Learning styles assessment program • Study skills primer • Internet primer • Guide to electronic research

  3. Contents of Online Learning Center • Student’s Online Learning Center—this free web-based student supplement features many of the same tools as the Student CD-ROM (so students can access these materials either online or on CD, whichever is convenient), but also includes: • An entirely new self-quiz for each chapter (with feedback, so students can take two pre-tests prior to exams) • Career opportunities • Additional chapter-related readings • Anthropology FAQs • PowerPoint lecture notes • Monthly updates

  4. The Arts This chapter introduces students to the anthropological study of art. It shows how the appreciation, creation, transmission, and use of art are embedded in culture and are learned. C h a p t e r 20

  5. What is Art? • Art is very difficult to define, but it generally refers to the manifestations of human creativity through which people express themselves in dance, music, song, painting, sculpture, pottery, cloth, story telling, verse, prose, drama, and comedy. This photo, taken in Berlin, Germany, illustrates art within art. In the background, the experimental artist Christo has wrapped the Reichstag. Another man has wrapped himself and is now posing in front. Photo Credit: Thomas Hoepker/ Magnum Photos

  6. Art and Religion • Definitions of both art and religion focus on the more than ordinary aspects of each with regard to how they are different from the ordinary and profane/secular. • A lot of Western and non-Western art has been created in association with religion, but it is important to remember that not all non-Western art has ritual or religious importance. • Art and religion both have formal (museums and churches, temples) and informal (parks, homes, and regular gathering places) venues of expression. • State-level societies have permanent structures for religion and art. • Nonstate-level societies lack permanent structures for religion and art.

  7. Art and Religion This artist carves a statue of the Buddha on the grounds of a temple in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1988. Photo Credit: P.J. Griffiths/Magnum Photos

  8. Locating Art • In states, art is housed in special buildings like museums, concert halls, and theaters. • In nonstates, artistic expression takes place in public spaces that have been set aside for art. • In states, critics, judges, and experts determine what is art and what is not. • The Kalabari example demonstrates that not all sculpture is art because wooden carvings are manufactured exclusively for religious reasons.

  9. Locating Art Map showing the location of the Kalabari.

  10. Art and Individuality • Some anthropologists have criticized that the study of non-Western art ignores the individual and focuses too much on the group. • However, in many non-Western societies, there is more collective production of art than in Western cultures. • Bohannan argued that among the Tiv, the emphasis should be on the critics rather than the artists because the Tiv do not recognize the same connection between artists and their art. • The degree to which artists can be separated from their work varies cross-culturally.

  11. The Work of Art • In all societies art is work. • In nonstate societies, artists cannot work on their art all of the time as they still must hunt, gather, fish, herd, or farm to eat. • In states, artists are full-time specialists whose career is their work. • Artistic completeness or mastery is determined and maintained by both formal and informal standards.

  12. Art, Society, and Culture • Art is usually a public phenomena that is exhibited, performed, evaluated, and appreciated in society. • Ethnomusicology is the comparative study of the music of the world and of music as an aspect of culture and society. • Folk art, music, and lore refer to the expressive culture of ordinary people. • Art is a form of social communication.

  13. The Cultural Transmission of the Arts • Art is a part of culture and as a result appreciation for the arts are internalized during enculturation. • The appreciation of different art forms varies cross-culturally. • In nonindustrialized societies, artistic traditions are generally transmitted through families and kin groups. • The art of storytelling plays a critical role in the transmission, preservation, and expression of cultural traditions.

  14. The Artistic Career • In many non-Western societies children born into certain lineages are destined for a particular artistic career (e.g., leather working, wood carving, and making pottery) • Full craft specialists find support through their kin ties in non-Western societies or through patrons in Western societies. • The arts rely on individual talent which is shaped through socially approved directions.

  15. Continuity and Change • The arts are always changing. • The arts incorporate a wide variety of media. In Athens, Greece, ancient Greek theater is being staged for a contemporary audience. Photo Credit: James P. Blair/ National Geographic Society

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