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    Art provides emotional gratification to both the artist and the beholder Function of art? Various forms of art strengthen and reinforce both social bonds and cultural themes (venus) 2. Act as a mechanism of social control (mano of liberia) 3. Serve as a symbol of high status particularly in complex societies.

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    Art and Literature

    Ms Carin Alejandria Enderun Colleges, Inc.

    What is art?
    Definitions vary with the purposes of the definers -George Mills, 1957

    What is art?
    Basic elements for crosscultural applicability: 1. Creative vs. practical 2. Consumer: emotional response 3. Transformational 4. Representational 5. Skill is not equally shared

    Forms of art?
    1. 2. 3. 4. Graphic and plastic art Music Dance Verbal art

    Forms of art?
    Primitive art vs Fine Art
    Small-scale art vs large-scale art

    Forms of art?
    Primitive art vs Fine Art 1. General lifestyle and settlement pattern 2. Levels of social differentiation 3. Division of labor 4. Cultural integration (navajo sand painting) 5. Political structure (melanesia vs polynesia)

    Function of art?
    Individual art provides emotional gratification to both the artist and the beholder

    Function of art?
    Societal 1. Various forms of art strengthen and reinforce both social bonds and cultural themes (venus) 2. act as a mechanism of social control (Mano of Liberia) 3. serve as a symbol of high status particularly in complex societies (ziggurat)

    Graphic &Plastic art


    Western: painting, sculpture, printmaking, and architecture Anthro: weaving, embroidery, tailoring, jewelry making, tattooing, and scarification The eskimo case

    Music
    Ethnomusicology: the crosscultural study of music 1. Ideas about music 2. Social structure of music 3. Characteristic of the music itself 4. Material culture of music

    Ethnomusicology
    (Alan Lomax) Small scale societies music tradition: 1. Repetitive text 2. Slurred articulation 3. Little solo singing 4. Non-embellished songs 5. Few instruments 6. Singing in unison

    Dance
    Purposeful and intentionally rythmical non-verbal body movements that are culturally patterned and have aesthetic value.

    Functions of Dance
    1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Psychological Political Religious Social educational

    Verbal Art
    1. Includes myths and folktales 2. Intricately connected to the other aspects of cultures Myths-tend to involve supernatural beings Folktales- more secular in nature

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