ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Spirit Possession, Lightning, Syncretism
30 Apr 2012
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Although many artists argue that there"s a universal human sense of aesthetics, anthropologists caution that the idea of art is culturally variable. For instance, as art, the g"psgolox totem pole deserved, according to the swedish museum, to be preserved as part of our common human heritage. For the haisla though, this object was intended to return to the earth once its life ended. As we will see, in 1995 the berkeley museum of art in. For the maisin, tapa is also: utilitarian: a garment, wealth: exchanged at marriages and other ceremonial occasions, commodity: can be sold for cash to tourists, femininity: represents women"s power. Rituals are moments of heightened sacred activity, although their meaning is not always obvious to the observer (or even the performers). They often mark important changes of social status, such as births, deaths, and marriages (rites of passage).
