ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Franz Boas, Ethnomusicology
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Definition of art: the application of imagination, skill, and style to matter, movement, and sound that goes beyond the purely practical cultures have different definitions of art, but art is universal emic/etic differences in definiton of art. Western biases: fine and folk ethno-esthetics: what is good art (e. g. wood-carving standards in west africa) Play, leisure, and culture deemed "unnecessary" but are like a cultural microcosm (picture of what"s going on in society) Games and sport different values about social relationships individualism in u. s. vs team goals in japanese baseball. Cultural tourism provides authentic view of primitive cultures tourists often seek culture the tourist industry defines rather than real one looking for staged authenticity socialization, legitimization, social control, resistance/commentary to society. Learning art through apprenticeship studying art by learning it (e. g. john chernoff) art + social/ritual context. Franz boas (earl 20th century) study the artist in context study the process of creation social functions of art.
