ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Music Of Africa, Body Art, Omen

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Holly Peters- Golden

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The arts: forms of creative expression that give personal satisfaction both to the creator and the observer. Expressive culture: all the manifestations of human creativity grouped under the term the arts . One of the criteria is to define what is authentic. In industrial societies, people may define arts as pleasurable but not important. Normally in schools if there is a budget cut, art and music classes will be cut first because they are compared with productive things. For example, apply art to a field of science or reading. Studies shows that music can help you learn math, preform better in tests, better iqs, more likely to stay in school, etc. are used to keep music problems in school. Be indirectly symbolic with particular elements reflecting particular thoughts. If we start a story with once upon a time that tells the reader that this story is not going to be real. Laura bohannan worked amongst the tiv in nigeria.