the production, circulation, and consumption of visual images
What is the central focus of research by visual anthropologists?
that the extent of the critique faces clear limits
The late-night rara processions described in the text, along with the ensuing response of a member of the military, reveal what important aspect of this art form in Haiti?
global mediascape
What term does Arjun Appadurai use to refer to the global cultural flows of media and visual images that enable linkages and communication across boundaries?
It exposes the intersections of class, poverty, power, and kinship through a miniature city.
Why is Morrinho important to anthropologists?
wealth and power stratification
What is reflected in decisions about what is displayed as fine art?
male artists
Jessica Winegar studied post-9/11 attempts by institutions to bridge cultural differences with media. What category was rarely featured at the exhibits designed to improve relations?
attempt to understand the development and meaning of local art forms while preserving their specific cultural contexts
What does the anthropological approach to world art attempt to do?
use of the media by those who have experienced significant disruption at a local level
What is indigenous media?
authenticity.
C�te d'Ivoire's art traders actively engage in the construction of:
The paintings were modified over a 20,000-year period.
What does the analysis of European Paleolithic cave art indicate?
loss of employment
The film Exit Zero traces the journey of an anthropologist's family as they cope with what?
Western tourists
In Christopher Steiner's ethnography of art in Abidjan, C�te D'Ivoire, who are the primary consumers of locally produced art?
100,000 years
According to the archaeological record, how old is evidence of human artistic expression?
assert local cultural identity in the face of rapid change
The presentation of local art on the global scale may provide not only a means of economic activity but also a venue to do what?
West Africa
As discussed in the text, where is the art known as "wood" and "mud" primarily produced?
The paintings may have been used in storytelling or for record keeping.
What does the complexity of cave art suggest?
the personal perspective of the photographer
What is meant by the term photographic gaze?
primitive
Early anthropologists played an important role in the acquisition of art that came from Oceania, Africa, and Latin America. What was it referred to at that time?
high
Art in Western traditions is often associated with notions of what kind of culture?
It is a multi-species ethnography.
What is one of the things that helps make the film Leviathan a unique experience?
production, consumption, and distribution
What are the key aspects of any art market that ethnographers strive to understand?
the middle class
Which population made up the majority of the 40 million people who read National Geographic at its peak?
They avoid images that might disrupt readers' views of the world.
What did Lutz and Collins conclude after their investigation of National Geographic photos?
the use of playground rhymes by U.S. rap artists
What would ethnomusicologists be most likely to study?
festival videos
According to the author, what is a critical form of media that allows Chinese immigrants and those at home to remain in contact with each other?
tensions that result from the collision of visual worlds
What did anthropologist Faye Ginsberg mean by her use of the phrase "media worlds"?