Art
All ideas, forms, techniques, and strategies that humans employ to express themselves creatively and to communicate their creativity and inspiration to others.
Fine art
Creative expression and communication often associated with cultural elites.
Popular art
Creative expression and communication often associated with the general population.
Aesthetic experience
Perception through one's senses.
Universal gaze
An intrinsic way of perceiving art--throught by many in the Western art world to be found across cultures--that informs what people consider to be art or not art.
Authenticity
The perception of an object's antiquity, uniqueness, and originality within a local culture.
Ethnomusicology
The study of music in cultural context.
Kinetic orality
A musical genre combining body movement and voice. (the games black girls play)
Global mediascape
Global cultural flows of media and visual images that enable linkages and communication across boundaries in ways unimaginable a century ago.
Visual Anthropology
A field of anthropology that explores the production, circulation, and consumption of visual images, focusing on the power of visual representation to influence culture and cultural identity.
Photographic gaze
The presumed neutral viewpoint of the camera that in fact projects the perspective of the person behind the camera onto human nature, the natural world, and history.
Social media
New forms of communication based on computer-and-internet-based technologies that facilitate social engagement, work, and pleasure.
Avatar
An object, real or virtual, that graphically represents a participant in a game or other activity.
Primitive Art
people thought african art was primitive but it does not have less artistic value. They showed headdresses which were not meant to be showed but to be worn.
Austrailian native art
These people created traditional art to make a living by putting their symbols on wood, etc.
Class Dismissed
Jeffersons, George Lopez, cosby show all have upward mobility. No shows show solidarity with the rest of your class.
Life and Debt
In Jamaica IMF and World bank gave money but stopped trade barriers leaving locals without trades, work. forced globalization, Jamaica has Free trade zones and can only sell tourism now.
Victor Turner
anthropologist who studied Symbolic approaches, culture is a system of meaning
Mary Douglas
anthropologist who studied Purity and danger
Clifford Guertz
anthropologist who studied what is the meaning of that, how does that effect society.
Evans-Pritchard
Structural functionalist concerned that the Azande would be seen as irratinoal. They are right in their own way.
Durkheim
defined religion as a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden.
Hebert Spencer
He developed a theory of two types of society, the militant and the industrial, which corresponded to this evolutionary progression
Weber
wants to bring in calss but its not the end all be all.