ANTH 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Day Of The Dead, Franz Brentano, Kula Ring
18 Jan 2020
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The idea that western art is better is now considered ethnocentric etc. similar to anderson chapters one and two. Small scale societies tend to have less specific or explicit aesthetic systems. Paul tacon found that climate change and threats from other groups led to increased art production among the dorset, maybe the maya too. The exchange of art often lubricates" the movement of goods, ideas, and people, an example is the kula ring, gell"s ideas about agency. Art has been globalizing for a long time, such as paper originating in china etc. Fundamentalism is one reaction to globalization, may be expressed in art or expression in general. Talking about the combination of things to create something new due to globalization, calls this hybrid vigor", gives the day of the dead as an example. Mesoamerican religions have always celebrated death as the reverse side of life and as a source of life. Socially this celebration is about family solidarity.
