Which of the following statements about individual artists in non Western societies is true?

ANTH 1006

Introduction to Anthropology

University of Connecticut

1. __________ is synonymous with the arts

2. Which of the following statements is true regarding the relationship betweenart and religion?

. B.  In allsocieties, art is produced for religious purposes as well as its aestheticvalue.

3. What kind of society has buildings dedicated to the arts?

4. Why do the Kalabari carve wooden sculptures of spirits?

D.  to manipulate spiritual forces,illustrating that not all sculpture is art

5. Which of the following statements about individual artists in non-Westernsocieties is true? They

B.  are more likely to bepart of the cultural mainstream than Western artists, because social approvaland acceptance is more important in non-Western societies.

6. In states, how is art typically defined?

B.  State societies rely heavily oncritics, judges, and experts to make these decisions.

7. In an example of how definitions of art change through time and space, thischapter describes how French impressionism, currently widely esteemed asexceptional art, was initially

E.  criticized for being too sketchy and spontaneous to beconsidered art.

8. Findings of finely shaped bones dating from more than 70,000 years ago in SouthAfrica's Blombos Cave suggest that

D.  anatomically modern humans had theability, as early as 70,000 years ago, for symbolic thought.

9. What kind of evidence led scientists studying remains at South Africa's BlombosCave to suggest that they had found proof of symbolic thought dated to morethan 70,000 years ago?

B.  Among the bone tools they found weresome that were not just sharp but also symmetrical and polished, characteristics that do not add functional value to the tool.

10. What is the study of the music of the world and of music as an aspect ofculture? 

11. Because music is a cultural universal and musical abilities seem to run infamilies,

E.  it has been suggested that the predisposition for music mayhave a genetic basis.

12. Found in a cave in Slovenia, the oldest known musical instrument, the"Divje babe flute," dates back more than

13. Folk art, music, and lore refer to the

B.  expressive cultures of ordinary people

14. For the women of Planinica, a Muslim village in prewar Bosnia, singingsignaled

A.  a series of transitions between lifestages

15. Actors, musicians, and dancers

D.  function as intermediaries whotranslate the works and ideas of other artists

16. An intense emotional release is referred to as

17. In many non-Western societies, how are traditional manifestations of expressiveculture transmitted?

18. In his study of Navajo music, McAllester found that it reflected the overallculture in all of the following ways except a general

D.  Navajo liberalism extended to music.

19. The techniques that anthropologists have used to analyze myth and folktales canbe extended to two popular films in American culture, The Wizard of Oz and StarWars. All of the following are examples of such an analysis, revealing thesimilarities between the two films, except that

E.  confirming Lévi-Strauss's analysis of myths around the world,these movies have many secondary cultural references that only culturedaudiences are able to perceive and appreciate.

20. Appreciation for the arts must be learned, it being part of the processof

21. In nonindustrial societies, artists

B.  tend to be part-time specialists.

22. All of the following are examples of an ethnocentric view of art in thenon-Western world except that

E.  non-Western sculpture is not alwaysart.

23. As we enter the 21st century, artisticexpression

C.  can be seen to be increasinglyincorporating elements from many cultures into contemporary art and performance

24. Which of the following does not influence artistic expression?

C.  etic categories of utilitarian andnonutilitarian elements of society

25. Which of the following statements is not mentioned in this chapter as a way ofdefining art?

E.  Art is in a cultural sphere separate from politics andreligion.

26. Any media-born image or message can be analyzed in terms of its nature,including its symbolism and its effects. It can also be analyzed as a text,which refers to

C.  anything that can beread or processed, interpreted, and assigned meaning by anyone exposed to it

27. In a study assessing the effects of television on behavior, attitudes, andvalues, Kottak and a team of researchers found that

E.  people's ideas about proper family size are influenced as theysee, day after day, nuclear families smaller than the traditional ones in theirtown.

28. Anthropologists have an interest in sports because, as the media's illustrationsof U.S. football suggest,

A.  sports can symbolize certain keyaspects of the culture where it is highly popular.

Which statement best describes the relationship between art and religion in non Western societies?

What is the study of the music of the world and of music as an aspect of culture?

Which statement best describes a cultural difference between Brazilians and Americans as they engage in international sports competition?

When people communicate or reveal aspects of themselves through music song sculpture drama painting and such they are engaging in?