ANTH 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Soapstone, Bone Carving, Awori Tribe
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Bio evolutionary view - human understanding as shaped by nature. Humans respond to aesthetic themes even without underlying cultural norms. Everyone reacts to art - no matter what culture. Make are possible by making it accessible to public. Ignored while alive - now considered "great american composer" Art can serve as a protest against issues. Charles myers records sacred songs of malo-bomai (1890s) Francis densmore, 1916 recording of blackfoot chief, mountatin chief. Art and music are a part of everyday life. Examples include singing happy birthday, making quilts, or work gangs. Music and dance can be culturally understood and generally experienced. Functionalist perspective developed by emile durkheim and a. r. Often difficult to prove all functions in art. Burial masks and social control among the gio and mano, liberia, west africa. Gold stool and gold state sword for the ashanti, west ghana. Ask- what was the object used for, what it does, what its effects are.