ANTHRO 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Fine Art, Cultural Relativism, Tribal Art
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Art and design: all ideas, forms, techniques, and strategies that humans employ to express themselves creaively and to communicate their creaivity and inspiraion to others. (guest) i. e. cooking, photography, design, fashion, paining, sculpture, music , dance, Architecture, wriing anthropologists see this deiniion as too broad many things fall into this deiniion: impossible to give art a speciic deiniion, fine art (stuf in museums) vs. popular art (dance; music, universal aestheics vs. cultural relaivism. Anthropologists don"t agree with universal aestheics, because nothing says that everyone interprets the same things as beauiful/ugly. Aestheics represent an interpreive act; shaped by culture and intellect: beyond primiive art. Anthropologists disagree with the idea of primiive art. Art for art"s sake vs. art with a meaning (engaged art) Western culture has diferent deiniion of art than most other cultures: in most other cultures around the world, art tends to be funcional rather than just aestheically pleasing. How do anthropologists study art: ethnography of art.
