ANTH 2200 Chapter 15: Ember 15
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Explaining variation in the arts: societies vary in terms of an emphasis on uniqueness, materials, ideas of beauty, and characteristic styles and themes. Form and style in visual art, music, dance, and folklore are very much influenced by other aspects of culture: art may express the typical feelings, anxieties, and experiences of people in a culture. Cultural differences in music reflect widely varying rhythms, singing styles, and tonal ranges. Some features of song style can be correlated with cultural complexity: folklore is not always clearly separable from the other arts, particularly music and dance. Explaining ambilineal and bilateral systems: societies with unilineal descent groups may be transformed into ambilineal ones under special conditions, particularly depopulation, and may be a recent development resulting from depopulation caused by the introduction of. European diseases: the conditions that favor bilateral systems are generally opposite to those that favor unilineal descent.
